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Spin Doctors

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Spin Doctors is a Rap act. Their sound grew out of Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, Curtis Mayfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jimi Hendrix. Those roots explain a lot about how Spin Doctors arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Gin Blossoms, Collective Soul, Hootie & The Blowfish, Toad The Wet Sprocket and Sugar Ray, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Maroon 5, Sonata Arctica, Joan Osborne, Ivan Neville and Sugar Ray, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Spin Doctors, reaching back through Blues Traveler and forward to Maroon 5. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Spin DoctorsBlues TravelerGin BlossomsCurtis MayfieldCreedence Clearwater…Jimi HendrixPhishThat's the Way (I Li…Maroon 5Sonata ArcticaJoan OsborneIvan NevilleSugar RayThe WallflowersGin BlossomsCollective SoulHootie & The BlowfishToad The Wet SprocketSugar RayEverclearThe WallflowersTonic

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Spin Doctors connections

Spin Doctors grew out of Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, Curtis Mayfield and Creedence Clearwater Revival, shares an orbit with Gin Blossoms, Collective Soul, Hootie & The Blowfish and Toad The Wet Sprocket, went on to shape Maroon 5, Sonata Arctica, Joan Osborne and Ivan Neville. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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