◇ image via WikipediaJohn Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Tony Carey, Eddie Boyd and Buddy Guy. Those roots explain a lot about how John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, The Yardbirds and Cream, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Robert Fripp, Ginger Baker, Billy Squier, K. K. Downing and Joe Bonamassa, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 45 connections around John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, reaching back through Tony Carey and forward to Robert Fripp. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were an English blues rock band led by multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter John Mayall. The band has been influential as an incubator for British rock and blues musicians. Many of the best known bands to come out of Britain in the 1960s and 1970s had members that came through the Bluesbreakers at one time, forming the foundation of British blues music that is still played heavily on classic rock radio. Among those with a tenure in the Bluesbreakers are guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor, bassists John McVie, Jack Bruce and Tony Reeves, drummers Hughie Flint, Aynsley Dunbar, Mick Fleetwood and Jon Hiseman, and numerous others.
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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers connections
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers grew out of Tony Carey, Eddie Boyd and Buddy Guy, shares an orbit with John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter and The Yardbirds, went on to shape Robert Fripp, Ginger Baker, Billy Squier and K. K. Downing. 45 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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