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Rory Gallagher

Blues
Blues

Rory Gallagher is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Blind Boy Fuller, Clifton Chenier, Muddy Waters, Roy Rogers and Buddy Holly. Those roots explain a lot about how Rory Gallagher arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Free, Ten Years After, Robin Trower, Humble Pie and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Tipton, Vivian Campbell, Joan Armatrading and Epitaph, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Rory Gallagher, reaching back through Blind Boy Fuller and forward to Joe Bonamassa. 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
Rory GallagherBlind Boy FullerClifton ChenierMuddy WatersRoy RogersBuddy HollyEddie CochranChuck BerryWoody GuthrieJoe BonamassaGlenn TiptonVivian CampbellJoan ArmatradingEpitaphDennis StrattonRosendoKal P. DalFreeTen Years AfterRobin TrowerHumble PieJohn Mayall & The Bl…Thin LizzyThe Jeff Healey BandWishbone Ash

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Rory Gallagher connections

Rory Gallagher grew out of Blind Boy Fuller, Clifton Chenier, Muddy Waters and Roy Rogers, shares an orbit with Free, Ten Years After, Robin Trower and Humble Pie, went on to shape Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Tipton, Vivian Campbell and Joan Armatrading. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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