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Roy Brown is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Wallace Davenport, Dave Bartholomew and Johnny Burnette. Those roots explain a lot about how Roy Brown arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Louis Jordan, Ella Mae Morse, Peggy Lee and Cab Calloway, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Larry Williams, The Honeydrippers, Little Richard, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Jackie Wilson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Roy Brown, reaching back through Wallace Davenport and forward to Larry Williams. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Roy Brown connections
Roy Brown grew out of Wallace Davenport, Dave Bartholomew and Johnny Burnette, shares an orbit with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Louis Jordan, Ella Mae Morse and Peggy Lee, went on to shape Larry Williams, The Honeydrippers, Little Richard and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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