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Ronnie Laws is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Larry Dunn, Helen Baylor, Hugh Masekela and Earth Wind and Fire. Those roots explain a lot about how Ronnie Laws arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Crusaders, Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Idris Muhammad and Dexter Wansel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Incognito and Debra Laws, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Ronnie Laws, reaching back through Larry Dunn and forward to Incognito. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Ronnie Laws connections
Ronnie Laws grew out of Larry Dunn, Helen Baylor, Hugh Masekela and Earth Wind and Fire, shares an orbit with The Crusaders, Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Ayers Ubiquity and Idris Muhammad, went on to shape Incognito and Debra Laws. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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