◇ image via WikipediaBobby Charles
Bobby Charles is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Hank Williams and Fats Domino. Those roots explain a lot about how Bobby Charles arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Karen Dalton, Ted Hawkins, Fred Neil, Loudon Wainwright III and Lowell George, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Fats Domino, Junior Wells, Willie Nelson, Clarence "Frogman" Henry and Bob Dylan, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Bobby Charles, reaching back through Hank Williams and forward to Fats Domino. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bobby Charles connections
Bobby Charles grew out of Hank Williams and Fats Domino, shares an orbit with Karen Dalton, Ted Hawkins, Fred Neil and Loudon Wainwright III, went on to shape Fats Domino, Junior Wells, Willie Nelson and Clarence "Frogman" Henry. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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