Will Oldham has not only lured indie rockers into more rustic and rootsy terrain, he's inspired them to cultivate their own mythologies. When a young Bon Iver retreated to his now-famous wood cabin to lay down simply strummed ballads like “Flume,” he channeled both Oldham's sound and his mysterious insularity. Other artists, however, have keyed into Oldham's brutally honest lyrics—see the traumatic high-school flashbacks of Sun Kil Moon's “Dogs.”