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Talking Book is a Funk and House act. Their sound grew out of Sam Salter. Those roots explain a lot about how Talking Book arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into The Rolling Stones and Carole King, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Talking Book, reaching back through Sam Salter and forward to The Rolling Stones. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, and musician Stevie Wonder, released on October 27, 1972, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. This album and Music of My Mind, released earlier the same year, are generally considered to mark the start of Wonder's "classic period". The sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder's use of keyboards and synthesizers.
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Talking Book grew out of Sam Salter, went on to shape The Rolling Stones and Carole King. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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