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Pee Wee Crayton

Blues
Blues

Pee Wee Crayton is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of T-Bone Walker. Those roots explain a lot about how Pee Wee Crayton arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jimmy Witherspoon, Rosco Gordon, Elmore James, Koko Taylor and Percy Mayfield, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Beatles, Rod Piazza, Sonny Stitt, Kim Wilson and Mickey Baker, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Pee Wee Crayton, reaching back through T-Bone Walker and forward to The Beatles. 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
Pee Wee CraytonT-Bone WalkerThe BeatlesRod PiazzaSonny StittKim WilsonMickey BakerBig Joe TurnerDinah WashingtonSonny RhodesJimmy WitherspoonRosco GordonElmore JamesKoko TaylorPercy MayfieldBig Joe TurnerFats DominoBig Walter Horton

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Pee Wee Crayton connections

Pee Wee Crayton grew out of T-Bone Walker, shares an orbit with Jimmy Witherspoon, Rosco Gordon, Elmore James and Koko Taylor, went on to shape The Beatles, Rod Piazza, Sonny Stitt and Kim Wilson. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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