◇ image via WikipediaChuck Brown
Chuck Brown is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Jerry Butler, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker. Those roots explain a lot about how Chuck Brown arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as E.U., Parlet, Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers, The Diplomats of Solid Sound and Phat Phunktion, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nelly, Slick Rick, Trouble Funk, Jill Scott and Marcus Miller, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Chuck Brown, reaching back through Jerry Butler and forward to Nelly. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Charles Louis Brown was an American guitarist, bandleader, and singer known as "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed around the Washington, D.C., area in the mid-1970s. While its musical classification, influences, and origins are debated, Brown is regarded as the fundamental force behind the creation of go-go music.
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Chuck Brown connections
Chuck Brown grew out of Jerry Butler, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker, shares an orbit with E.U., Parlet, Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers and The Diplomats of Solid Sound, went on to shape Nelly, Slick Rick, Trouble Funk and Jill Scott. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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