◇ image via WikipediaJimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Jay McShann, Willie Dixon, P. P. Arnold and Leroy Carr. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Witherspoon arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Roosevelt Sykes, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner, Little Walter and John Lee Hooker, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Pete Wingfield, J.J. Jackson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Eric Burdon and Leiber-Stoller, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Jimmy Witherspoon, reaching back through Jay McShann and forward to Pete Wingfield. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Jimmy Witherspoon connections
Jimmy Witherspoon grew out of Jay McShann, Willie Dixon, P. P. Arnold and Leroy Carr, shares an orbit with Roosevelt Sykes, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner and Little Walter, went on to shape Pete Wingfield, J.J. Jackson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Eric Burdon. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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