◇ image via WikipediaSharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings is a Funk act. Their sound grew out of James Brown, Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie, Stevie Wonder and The Rolling Stones. Those roots explain a lot about how Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The James Hunter Six, Little Beaver, The Poets of Rhythm, The Budos Band and Lee Fields, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kesha, Michael Bublé, Phish, The Heavy and Muse, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, reaching back through James Brown and forward to Kesha. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings connections
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings grew out of James Brown, Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie and Stevie Wonder, shares an orbit with The James Hunter Six, Little Beaver, The Poets of Rhythm and The Budos Band, went on to shape Kesha, Michael Bublé, Phish and The Heavy. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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