◇ image via WikipediaDyke & The Blazers
Dyke & The Blazers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The O'Jays and James Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Dyke & The Blazers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Marva Whitney, Baby Huey, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and The Poets of Rhythm, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Prince, Al McKay, Earth Wind and Fire, Stetsasonic and The Heavy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Dyke & The Blazers, reaching back through The O'Jays and forward to Prince. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dyke & The Blazers connections
Dyke & The Blazers grew out of The O'Jays and James Brown, shares an orbit with Marva Whitney, Baby Huey, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, went on to shape Prince, Al McKay, Earth Wind and Fire and Stetsasonic. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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