◇ image via WikipediaBo Diddley
Bo Diddley is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Sixteen Tons, Ed Motta, Coco Montoya, Fred Below and Willie Mabon. Those roots explain a lot about how Bo Diddley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Elmore James, Big Joe Turner and Jerry Lee Lewis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Bobby Hebb, The La's, Billy Stewart and ML Buch, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 107 connections around Bo Diddley, reaching back through Sixteen Tons and forward to George Thorogood & The Destroyers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bo Diddley connections
Bo Diddley grew out of Sixteen Tons, Ed Motta, Coco Montoya and Fred Below, shares an orbit with Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Elmore James and Big Joe Turner, went on to shape George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Bobby Hebb, The La's and Billy Stewart. 107 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Bo Diddley
Sounds and acts that shaped Bo Diddley.
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Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Bo Diddley.
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Where the influence of Bo Diddley travelled next.
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