◇ image via WikipediaCarla Thomas
Carla Thomas is a House act. Their sound grew out of The Mar-Keys, Jimmy McCracklin, Otis Redding, Booker T. & the M.G.'s and Steve Cropper. Those roots explain a lot about how Carla Thomas arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Mar-Keys, Otis Redding, The Bar-Kays, Percy Sledge and Jimmy Hughes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Claudia Lennear, Rachel Sweet, Stax Records, Isaac Hayes and Valerie June, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Carla Thomas, reaching back through The Mar-Keys and forward to Claudia Lennear. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Carla Thomas connections
Carla Thomas grew out of The Mar-Keys, Jimmy McCracklin, Otis Redding and Booker T. & the M.G.'s, shares an orbit with The Mar-Keys, Otis Redding, The Bar-Kays and Percy Sledge, went on to shape Claudia Lennear, Rachel Sweet, Stax Records and Isaac Hayes. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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