◇ image via WikipediaJimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Lonnie Brooks, Luther Dixon, Eddie Taylor, Albert King and Vee-Jay Records. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Reed arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Witherspoon and Koko Taylor, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bobby Rush, Animals, Charley Crockett, Sonny James and Ambrosia, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 66 connections around Jimmy Reed, reaching back through Lonnie Brooks and forward to Bobby Rush. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jimmy Reed connections
Jimmy Reed grew out of Lonnie Brooks, Luther Dixon, Eddie Taylor and Albert King, shares an orbit with Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Witherspoon, went on to shape Bobby Rush, Animals, Charley Crockett and Sonny James. 66 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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