◇ image via WikipediaJunior Wells
Junior Wells is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of John Primer, Delmark Records, A.C. Reed, Little Walter and Junior Parker. Those roots explain a lot about how Junior Wells arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Big Walter Horton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Tinsley Ellis, Maurice White, Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker and Buddy Guy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Junior Wells, reaching back through John Primer and forward to Tinsley Ellis. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Junior Wells connections
Junior Wells grew out of John Primer, Delmark Records, A.C. Reed and Little Walter, shares an orbit with Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, went on to shape Tinsley Ellis, Maurice White, Muddy Waters and Earl Hooker. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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