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Artist

James Cotton

Blues

BluesRhythm and blues

James Cotton is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Little Walter, Sun Records, Mike Bloomfield, Hubert Sumlin and Sonny Boy Williamson II. Those roots explain a lot about how James Cotton arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Copeland and Koko Taylor, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Son of Dave, The J. Geils Band, Kim Wilson, The Blues Brothers and Otis Rush, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around James Cotton, reaching back through Little Walter and forward to Son of Dave. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.