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Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of T-Bone Walker, Jerry Butler, Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan. Those roots explain a lot about how Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Trouble Funk, Ohio Players, McFadden & Whitehead, The Spinners and Fatback Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Slick Rick, Nelly, Jill Scott, Marcus Miller and Trouble Funk, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers, reaching back through T-Bone Walker and forward to Slick Rick. 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 & The Soul Searchers connections
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers grew out of T-Bone Walker, Jerry Butler, Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan, shares an orbit with Trouble Funk, Ohio Players, McFadden & Whitehead and The Spinners, went on to shape Slick Rick, Nelly, Jill Scott and Marcus Miller. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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