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Stax Records is a Funk and House act. Their catalogue also touches Progressive rock and Rhythm and blues. Their sound grew out of Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas and The Mar-Keys. Those roots explain a lot about how Stax Records arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Guided by Voices, ESG, Tubeway Army, Skip James and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Otis Redding and Booker T. & the M.G.'s, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 10 connections around Stax Records, reaching back through Rufus Thomas and forward to Otis Redding. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Stax Records connections
Stax Records grew out of Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas and The Mar-Keys, shares an orbit with Guided by Voices, ESG, Tubeway Army and Skip James, went on to shape Otis Redding and Booker T. & the M.G.'s. 10 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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