◇ image via WikipediaDon Blackman
Don Blackman is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Weldon Irvine, Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Roy Ayers and Lenny White. Those roots explain a lot about how Don Blackman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Jones Girls, Leon Ware, Pleasure, Sylvia Striplin and Bernard Wright, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Snoop Dogg, Memphis Bleek, JAY-Z and Master P, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 47 connections around Don Blackman, reaching back through Weldon Irvine and forward to Snoop Dogg. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Don Blackman connections
Don Blackman grew out of Weldon Irvine, Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire and Roy Ayers, shares an orbit with The Jones Girls, Leon Ware, Pleasure and Sylvia Striplin, went on to shape Snoop Dogg, Memphis Bleek, JAY-Z and Master P. 47 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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