◇ image via WikipediaT-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker is a Blues and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Jimmy McCracklin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Christian, Memphis Slim and Dave Bartholomew. Those roots explain a lot about how T-Bone Walker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Elmore James, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Witherspoon and Koko Taylor, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Johnny Copeland, Bobby Parker, Southside Johnny, Doug Sahm and Bobby "Blue" Bland, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 60 connections around T-Bone Walker, reaching back through Jimmy McCracklin and forward to Johnny Copeland. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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T-Bone Walker connections
T-Bone Walker grew out of Jimmy McCracklin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Christian and Memphis Slim, shares an orbit with Elmore James, Son House, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Witherspoon, went on to shape Johnny Copeland, Bobby Parker, Southside Johnny and Doug Sahm. 60 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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