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Black Merda is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Jackie Wilson, Edwin Starr, Gene Chandler, Wilson Pickett and The Spinners. Those roots explain a lot about how Black Merda arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Eddie Hazel, Sly & The Family Stone, Shuggie Otis, Betty Davis and Baby Huey, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Funkadelic, The Bar-Kays, Eric Burdon, War and Ja Rule, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Black Merda, reaching back through Jackie Wilson and forward to Funkadelic. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Black Merda is an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan active from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s and reuniting in 2005. The core band members are guitarist/vocalist Anthony Hawkins, bassist/guitarist/vocalist VC L. Veasey, and guitarist/vocalist Charles Hawkins, plus original drummer/vocalist Tyrone Hite. Hite was a native of Detroit; the Hawkins brothers and Veasey were all born in Lyon, Mississippi and came of age in Detroit.
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Black Merda connections
Black Merda grew out of Jackie Wilson, Edwin Starr, Gene Chandler and Wilson Pickett, shares an orbit with Eddie Hazel, Sly & The Family Stone, Shuggie Otis and Betty Davis, went on to shape Funkadelic, The Bar-Kays, Eric Burdon and War. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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