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Bettye LaVette

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BluesHouse

Bettye LaVette is a Blues and House act. Their sound grew out of Ben E. King, Aimee Mann, Sinéad O'Connor, Lucinda Williams and Joan Armatrading. Those roots explain a lot about how Bettye LaVette arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mavis Staples, Irma Thomas, Koko Taylor, Percy Sledge and Madeleine Peyroux, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into ODESZA, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Bettye LaVette, reaching back through Ben E. King and forward to ODESZA. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Bettye LaVetteBen E. KingAimee MannSinéad O'ConnorLucinda WilliamsJoan ArmatradingDolly PartonHank BallardRoger DaltreyODESZAMavis StaplesIrma ThomasKoko TaylorPercy SledgeMadeleine PeyrouxThe Teskey BrothersMaxine BrownEtta James

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Bettye LaVette connections

Bettye LaVette grew out of Ben E. King, Aimee Mann, Sinéad O'Connor and Lucinda Williams, shares an orbit with Mavis Staples, Irma Thomas, Koko Taylor and Percy Sledge, went on to shape ODESZA. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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