◇ image via WikipediaBooker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s is a House and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of The Mar-Keys, The Beatles, Stax Records, The Delfonics and Billy Lee Riley. Those roots explain a lot about how Booker T. & the M.G.'s arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Mar-Keys, King Curtis, The Bar-Kays, Otis Redding and Bo Diddley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Bar-Kays, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and Albert King, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 59 connections around Booker T. & the M.G.'s, reaching back through The Mar-Keys and forward to The Bar-Kays. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s connections
Booker T. & the M.G.'s grew out of The Mar-Keys, The Beatles, Stax Records and The Delfonics, shares an orbit with The Mar-Keys, King Curtis, The Bar-Kays and Otis Redding, went on to shape The Bar-Kays, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. 59 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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