◇ image via WikipediaDanny Gatton
Danny Gatton is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Roy Buchanan and Lenny Breau. Those roots explain a lot about how Danny Gatton arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jeff Beck, Junior Brown, Wes Montgomery, Michael Hedges and The Derek Trucks Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Slash, The RH Factor, Ricky Skaggs, Lou Reed and Joe Bonamassa, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Danny Gatton, reaching back through Roy Buchanan and forward to Slash. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Danny Gatton connections
Danny Gatton grew out of Roy Buchanan and Lenny Breau, shares an orbit with Jeff Beck, Junior Brown, Wes Montgomery and Michael Hedges, went on to shape Slash, The RH Factor, Ricky Skaggs and Lou Reed. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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