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Lonnie Brooks

Blues
Blues

Lonnie Brooks is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Alligator Records, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, T-Bone Walker, B.B. King and Clifton Chenier. Those roots explain a lot about how Lonnie Brooks arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Son Seals, Johnny Copeland, Earl Hooker, The Jeff Healey Band and Michael Burks, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Luther Allison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana, Phillip Walker and Jimmy Reed, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around Lonnie Brooks, reaching back through Alligator Records and forward to Luther Allison. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Lonnie BrooksAlligator RecordsClarence "Gatemouth"…T-Bone WalkerB.B. KingClifton ChenierLuther AllisonStevie Ray VaughanSantanaPhillip WalkerJimmy ReedRoy ClarkJohnny WinterEric JohnsonSon SealsJohnny CopelandEarl HookerThe Jeff Healey BandMichael BurksPopa ChubbyCharlie MusselwhiteLonnie Mack

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Lonnie Brooks connections

Lonnie Brooks grew out of Alligator Records, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, T-Bone Walker and B.B. King, shares an orbit with Son Seals, Johnny Copeland, Earl Hooker and The Jeff Healey Band, went on to shape Luther Allison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana and Phillip Walker. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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Roots5

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