◇ 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, Lee Fields & The Expressions, The Olympians and Bill Withers, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sturgill Simpson, Phish, The Heavy, Muse and David Byrne, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 47 connections around Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, reaching back through James Brown and forward to Sturgill Simpson. 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, Lee Fields & The Expressions and The Olympians, went on to shape Sturgill Simpson, Phish, The Heavy and Muse. 47 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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