◇ image via WikipediaJimmy McCracklin
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 Magic Sam, Jimmy Witherspoon, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner and Ivory Joe Hunter, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Otis Redding, The Blasters, Freddie King, Charles Brown and T-Bone Walker, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Jimmy McCracklin, reaching back through Leon Haywood and forward to Otis Redding. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jimmy McCracklin connections
Jimmy McCracklin grew out of Leon Haywood and Lowell Fulson, shares an orbit with Magic Sam, Jimmy Witherspoon, Percy Mayfield and Big Joe Turner, went on to shape Otis Redding, The Blasters, Freddie King and Charles Brown. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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