◇ image via WikipediaEthel Waters
Ethel Waters is a Blues and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bessie Smith. Those roots explain a lot about how Ethel Waters arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bessie Smith, Lucille Bogan, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Dinah Washington and Jelly Roll Morton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Crystal Waters, Sophie Tucker, Della Reese, Mildred Bailey and Helen Humes, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Ethel Waters, reaching back through Bessie Smith and forward to Crystal Waters. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ethel Waters connections
Ethel Waters grew out of Bessie Smith, shares an orbit with Bessie Smith, Lucille Bogan, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Dinah Washington, went on to shape Crystal Waters, Sophie Tucker, Della Reese and Mildred Bailey. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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