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Willie Dixon is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Eddie Boyd, Johnny Shines, Fred Below, Willie Mabon and John Primer. Those roots explain a lot about how Willie Dixon arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, Bo Diddley and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into From the Cradle, Barbara Dane, Lee Rocker, Back Door Man and Mannish Boy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 82 connections around Willie Dixon, reaching back through Eddie Boyd and forward to From the Cradle. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Willie Dixon connections
Willie Dixon grew out of Eddie Boyd, Johnny Shines, Fred Below and Willie Mabon, shares an orbit with Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor and Bo Diddley, went on to shape From the Cradle, Barbara Dane, Lee Rocker and Back Door Man. 82 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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