◇ image via WikipediaLaVern Baker
LaVern Baker is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Bert Berns, Lonnie Johnson, Didn't It Rain, Think Twice and Ahmet Ertegün. Those roots explain a lot about how LaVern Baker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Big Joe Turner, The Drifters, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Ivory Joe Hunter and Larry Williams, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Big Joe Turner, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Jackie Wilson and Ruth Brown, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around LaVern Baker, reaching back through Bert Berns and forward to Big Joe Turner. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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LaVern Baker connections
LaVern Baker grew out of Bert Berns, Lonnie Johnson, Didn't It Rain and Think Twice, shares an orbit with Big Joe Turner, The Drifters, Sugar Pie DeSanto and Ivory Joe Hunter, went on to shape Big Joe Turner, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Jackie Wilson. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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