No, he's been doing his own thing, but he's drawn inspiration from, or payed homage to, blues, jazz, r&b, bar pianists, country and so on.

See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG0p2JHcsQ0 . It's playful, original, pulls from a lot of previous artistic work.

Later on he does the soundtrack for The Black Rider, changes record label and gets the freedom to dabble in post-punk and weirder stuff.