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Son Seals is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Bobby Bland, A.C. Reed, Rosco Gordon, Junior Parker and Robert Nighthawk. Those roots explain a lot about how Son Seals arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Charlie Musselwhite, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Koko Taylor and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Phish, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Son Seals, reaching back through Bobby Bland and forward to Phish. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Son Seals grew out of Bobby Bland, A.C. Reed, Rosco Gordon and Junior Parker, shares an orbit with Charlie Musselwhite, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James and Koko Taylor, went on to shape Phish. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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