◇ image via WikipediaThe Robert Cray Band
The Robert Cray Band is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Albert Collins, Freddie King and Muddy Waters. Those roots explain a lot about how The Robert Cray Band arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, The Jeff Healey Band and Eric Clapton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Van Morrison, Ted Hawkins, Chuck Berry, Tina Turner and Eric Clapton, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around The Robert Cray Band, reaching back through Albert Collins and forward to Van Morrison. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Robert William Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. He has led his own band and won five Grammy Awards.
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The Robert Cray Band connections
The Robert Cray Band grew out of Albert Collins, Freddie King and Muddy Waters, shares an orbit with Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and The Jeff Healey Band, went on to shape Van Morrison, Ted Hawkins, Chuck Berry and Tina Turner. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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