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Jimmy McCracklin

Blues
Blues

Jimmy McCracklin is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Leon Haywood and Lowell Fulson. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy McCracklin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jimmy Witherspoon, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner, Ivory Joe Hunter and Louisiana Red, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Big Joe Turner, Bob Dylan, Salt-N-Pepa, Lowell Fulson and Carla Thomas, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Jimmy McCracklin, reaching back through Leon Haywood and forward to Big Joe Turner. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Jimmy McCracklinLeon HaywoodLowell FulsonBig Joe TurnerBob DylanSalt-N-PepaLowell FulsonCarla ThomasThe BlastersOtis ReddingFreddie KingJimmy WitherspoonPercy MayfieldBig Joe TurnerIvory Joe HunterLouisiana RedRosco GordonJ.B. LenoirLittle Walter

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Jimmy McCracklin connections

Jimmy McCracklin grew out of Leon Haywood and Lowell Fulson, shares an orbit with Jimmy Witherspoon, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner and Ivory Joe Hunter, went on to shape Big Joe Turner, Bob Dylan, Salt-N-Pepa and Lowell Fulson. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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