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Big Maceo Merriweather

Blues
Blues

Big Maceo Merriweather is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Sleepy John Estes, Roosevelt Sykes and Leroy Carr. Those roots explain a lot about how Big Maceo Merriweather arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Blind Blake, Bo Diddley, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker and Roosevelt Sykes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into J.B. Lenoir, Eric Clapton and Otis Spann, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Big Maceo Merriweather, reaching back through Sleepy John Estes and forward to J.B. Lenoir. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Major "Big Maceo" Merriweather was an American pianist and blues singer. He was mainly active in Chicago through the 1940s.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Big Maceo MerriweatherSleepy John EstesRoosevelt SykesLeroy CarrJ.B. LenoirEric ClaptonOtis SpannBlind BlakeBo DiddleyBessie SmithJohn Lee HookerRoosevelt SykesJimmy WitherspoonMississippi Fred McD…Elmore James

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Big Maceo Merriweather connections

Big Maceo Merriweather grew out of Sleepy John Estes, Roosevelt Sykes and Leroy Carr, shares an orbit with Blind Blake, Bo Diddley, Bessie Smith and John Lee Hooker, went on to shape J.B. Lenoir, Eric Clapton and Otis Spann. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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