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Sonny Landreth is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Buckwheat Zydeco, Clifton Chenier and Hound Dog Taylor. Those roots explain a lot about how Sonny Landreth arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Robert Cray, Tony Joe White, Robin Trower, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and The Robert Cray Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Levon Helm, Little Feat, Buckwheat Zydeco, Alain Bashung and Eric Clapton, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Sonny Landreth, reaching back through Buckwheat Zydeco and forward to Levon Helm. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sonny Landreth grew out of Buckwheat Zydeco, Clifton Chenier and Hound Dog Taylor, shares an orbit with Robert Cray, Tony Joe White, Robin Trower and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, went on to shape Levon Helm, Little Feat, Buckwheat Zydeco and Alain Bashung. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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