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Scrapper Blackwell

Scrapper Blackwell is an act on the Starverb influence map. They run in the same orbit as Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Pink Anderson, Skip James and Rev. Gary Davis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kokomo Arnold, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Lonnie Johnson and Champion Jack Dupree, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Scrapper Blackwell and forward to Kokomo Arnold. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Scrapper BlackwellKokomo ArnoldRobert JohnsonBob DylanLonnie JohnsonChampion Jack DupreeLightnin' HopkinsMississippi John HurtPink AndersonSkip JamesRev. Gary DavisBlind BlakeReverend Gary DavisMississippi Fred McD…

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Scrapper Blackwell shares an orbit with Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Pink Anderson and Skip James, went on to shape Kokomo Arnold, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan and Lonnie Johnson. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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