◇ image via WikipediaMel McDaniel
Mel McDaniel is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bruce Channel, J.J. Cale and Easton Corbin. Those roots explain a lot about how Mel McDaniel arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, Johnny Lee, Randy Travis and The Oak Ridge Boys, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Diamond Rio and Sammy Kershaw, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Mel McDaniel, reaching back through Bruce Channel and forward to Diamond Rio. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Melvin Huston McDaniel was an American country music artist. Many of his top hits were released in the 1980s, including "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Big Ole Brew", "Stand Up", "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On", "I Call It Love", "Stand on It", and a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Roll ".
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Mel McDaniel connections
Mel McDaniel grew out of Bruce Channel, J.J. Cale and Easton Corbin, shares an orbit with Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, Johnny Lee and Randy Travis, went on to shape Diamond Rio and Sammy Kershaw. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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