◇ image via WikipediaBrook Benton
Brook Benton is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Ray Stevens, Think Twice, Dinah Washington, Joe South and Tony Joe White. Those roots explain a lot about how Brook Benton arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Drifters, Percy Sledge, Fats Domino, Marv Johnson and King Curtis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sonny James, The Silvertones, The Persuasions, Timi Yuro and The Rimshots, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Brook Benton, reaching back through Ray Stevens and forward to Sonny James. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Brook Benton connections
Brook Benton grew out of Ray Stevens, Think Twice, Dinah Washington and Joe South, shares an orbit with The Drifters, Percy Sledge, Fats Domino and Marv Johnson, went on to shape Sonny James, The Silvertones, The Persuasions and Timi Yuro. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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