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John Lee Hooker is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Funk Brothers, Mississippi Fred McDowell, The Robert Cray Band and Dave Hamilton. Those roots explain a lot about how John Lee Hooker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Albert King, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Son House and Bo Diddley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Animals, Joe Louis Walker, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Citizen Cope and Peter Wolf, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 89 connections around John Lee Hooker, reaching back through Blind Lemon Jefferson and forward to Animals. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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John Lee Hooker connections
John Lee Hooker grew out of Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Funk Brothers, Mississippi Fred McDowell and The Robert Cray Band, shares an orbit with Albert King, Elmore James, Robert Johnson and Son House, went on to shape Animals, Joe Louis Walker, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Citizen Cope. 89 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced John Lee Hooker
Sounds and acts that shaped John Lee Hooker.
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Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with John Lee Hooker.
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