◇ image via WikipediaSharon Jones
Sharon Jones is a House act. Their sound grew out of Bob & Gene, Lee Fields, Erykah Badu, Prince and Beyoncé. Those roots explain a lot about how Sharon Jones arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Diplomats of Solid Sound, Spanky Wilson, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens, Baby Charles and Bibi Tanga & The Selenites, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Amy Winehouse, The Transatlantics and Booker T. Jones, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Sharon Jones, reaching back through Bob & Gene and forward to Amy Winehouse. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sharon Jones connections
Sharon Jones grew out of Bob & Gene, Lee Fields, Erykah Badu and Prince, shares an orbit with The Diplomats of Solid Sound, Spanky Wilson, Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens and Baby Charles, went on to shape Amy Winehouse, The Transatlantics and Booker T. Jones. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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