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J.B. Lenoir

J.B. Lenoir is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James. Those roots explain a lot about how J.B. Lenoir arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Elmore James, Skip James, Louisiana Red, Koko Taylor and Mississippi Fred McDowell, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Guy Davis, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James and John Mayall, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around J.B. Lenoir, reaching back through Muddy Waters and forward to Guy Davis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

J. B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s. In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music he is described as both an "extrovert R&B man in the leopard-skin jacket who chanted infectious trifles" and a "thoughtful and intelligent writer of starkly honest blues songs."

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J.B. LenoirMuddy WatersSkip JamesBlind Lemon JeffersonSonny Boy Williamson…Elmore JamesArthur CrudupLightnin' HopkinsBig Bill BroonzyGuy DavisBlind Willie JohnsonSkip JamesJohn MayallElmore JamesSkip JamesLouisiana RedKoko TaylorMississippi Fred McD…Earl HookerBukka WhiteRoosevelt Sykes

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J.B. Lenoir connections

J.B. Lenoir grew out of Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Sonny Boy Williamson II, shares an orbit with Elmore James, Skip James, Louisiana Red and Koko Taylor, went on to shape Guy Davis, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James and John Mayall. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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