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Marcia Ball is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Fats Domino, Alligator Records, Irma Thomas, James Booker and Professor Longhair. Those roots explain a lot about how Marcia Ball arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Charlie Musselwhite, Susan Tedeschi, Koko Taylor, The Robert Cray Band and Delbert McClinton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Tracy Nelson and Nicolette Larson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Marcia Ball, reaching back through Fats Domino and forward to Tracy Nelson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Marcia Ball connections
Marcia Ball grew out of Fats Domino, Alligator Records, Irma Thomas and James Booker, shares an orbit with Charlie Musselwhite, Susan Tedeschi, Koko Taylor and The Robert Cray Band, went on to shape Tracy Nelson and Nicolette Larson. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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