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Buckwheat Zydeco is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Clifton Chenier, Dave Alvin, Sonny Landreth, Joe Tex and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Buckwheat Zydeco arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Edgar Winter, Mudcrutch, The J. Geils Band and The Blasters, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sonny Landreth, Yo La Tengo, Trombone Shorty, Eric Clapton and U2, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Buckwheat Zydeco, reaching back through Clifton Chenier and forward to Sonny Landreth. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Buckwheat Zydeco connections
Buckwheat Zydeco grew out of Clifton Chenier, Dave Alvin, Sonny Landreth and Joe Tex, shares an orbit with Edgar Winter, Mudcrutch, The J. Geils Band and The Blasters, went on to shape Sonny Landreth, Yo La Tengo, Trombone Shorty and Eric Clapton. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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