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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 Bobby Charles, 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 Yo La Tengo, Trombone Shorty, Sonny Landreth, Eric Clapton and U2, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Buckwheat Zydeco, reaching back through Clifton Chenier and forward to Yo La Tengo. 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 Bobby Charles, Edgar Winter, Mudcrutch and The J. Geils Band, went on to shape Yo La Tengo, Trombone Shorty, Sonny Landreth and Eric Clapton. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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