Connection Map
Influences
The archive's influence-chain data with cited sources and relationship types.
| From | To | Relationship | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charley Patton | Howlin' Wolf | Principal blues idol / mentor | 15 | Palmer, Deep Blues (1981); Segrest/Hoffman, Moanin' at Midnight (2004) |
| Jimmie Rodgers | Howlin' Wolf | Gave stage name | 15 | Segrest/Hoffman (2004); Wolf described imitating Rodgers's yodel |
| Sonny Boy Williamson II | Howlin' Wolf | Taught harmonica | 15, 21 | unsourced |
| Pinetop Perkins | Ike Turner | Taught piano | 24 | unsourced |
| Sonny Boy Williamson II | B.B. King | Gave radio break | 24 | unsourced |
| Lowell Fulson | B.B. King | Recording inspiration | 24 | unsourced |
| Blind Lemon Jefferson | T-Bone Walker | Mentor | 28 | Walker described leading blind Jefferson in Dallas; Charters (1959); Palmer (1981) |
| Big Bill Broonzy | Memphis Slim | Mentor/bandleader | 25 | unsourced |
| Blind Boy Fuller | Sonny Terry | Playing partner | 27 | unsourced |
| Son House | Muddy Waters | Teacher/idol | 22 | Gordon, Can't Be Satisfied (2002); Palmer, Deep Blues (1981) |
| Lomax family | Lead Belly | Discovery/champion | 22 | unsourced |
| Roosevelt Sykes | Memphis Slim | Piano style | 25 | unsourced |
| Speckled Red | Memphis Slim | Piano style | 25 | unsourced |
| Albert Ammons | Memphis Slim | Piano style | 25 | unsourced |
| Leroy Carr | Memphis Slim | Songwriting | 25 | unsourced |
| Leroy Carr | Robert Johnson | Songwriting | World College Radio Day | Wald, Escaping the Delta (2004); Conforth/Wardlow (2019) |
| Louis Jordan | Chuck Berry | Guitar riffs | Louis Jordan ep | Carl Hogan guitar riff lineage; Shaw, Honkers and Shouters (1978); Berry acknowledged |
| Louis Jordan | Rock and Roll | Format/economics | Louis Jordan ep | unsourced |
| Professor Longhair | Fats Domino | Piano style | Pre-CC Piano Blues | unsourced |
| Professor Longhair | Huey Piano Smith | Piano style | Pre-CC Piano Blues | unsourced |
| Professor Longhair | Dr. John | Piano style | Pre-CC Piano Blues | unsourced |
| Professor Longhair | Allen Toussaint | Piano style | Pre-CC Piano Blues | unsourced |
| Woody Guthrie | Bob Dylan | Performing style/attitude | 38 | unsourced |
| Pete Seeger | Bob Dylan | Performance philosophy | 38 | unsourced |
| Anthology of American Folk Music | Bob Dylan | Foundational repertoire | 38 | unsourced |
| Anthology of American Folk Music | Greenwich Village folk scene | Foundational repertoire | 38 | unsourced |
| Alberta Hunter | Bessie Smith | Down-Hearted Blues | 32 | unsourced |
| Ma Rainey | Bessie Smith | Generational predecessor | 32 | Albertson, Bessie (1972/2003), TOBA overlap documented, formal mentorship is not |
| Bessie Smith | Dinah Washington | Generational successor | 32 | Washington recorded tribute album Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (EmArcy, 1958) |
| Dinah Washington | Aretha Franklin | Generational successor | 32 | Franklin cited Washington in interviews; Shaw (1978) |
| Bessie Smith | Aretha Franklin | Multi-generational | 32 | unsourced |
| Big Bill Broonzy | British folk revival | European touring | 37 | unsourced |
| Big Bill Broonzy | McCartney/Lennon | Direct influence | 37 | unsourced |
| American Folk Blues Festival | British Invasion | Audience exposure | 36 | unsourced |
| British Invasion | American white blues revivalists | Reverse flow | 16 | unsourced |
| Canned Heat | European blues touring | Export catalyst | 35 | unsourced |
| Newport Folk Festival | Woodstock | Cultural chain | 33 | unsourced |
| Canned Heat | Sunnyland Slim | Rediscovery | 35 | unsourced |
| Canned Heat | Skip James | Rediscovery | 35 | unsourced |
| John Hammond | Alberta Hunter | Comeback | 19 | unsourced |
| Newport Folk Festival | Mississippi John Hurt | Rediscovery | 33 | unsourced |
| Alan Lomax | Son House | Rediscovery | 22 | unsourced |
| Sam Phillips | Howlin' Wolf | Recording | 15, 24, Wolf fragment | unsourced |
| Sam Phillips | Elvis Presley | Recording → sale | 24 | Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis (1994) |
| Alan Lomax | Muddy Waters | Field recording | 22 | Gordon (2002); Palmer (1981); Filene (2000) |
| Alan Lomax | Son House | Field recording | 22 | unsourced |
| Alan Lomax | Bukka White | Prison recording | 22 | unsourced |
| Alan Lomax | Woody Guthrie | Oral history | 22 | unsourced |
| Alan Lomax | Lead Belly | Prison recording | 22 | JOHN Lomax made first contact at Angola 1933. Alan assisted. Wolfe/Lornell (1992); Filene (2000) |
| Alan Lomax | Memphis Slim/Broonzy/Sonny Boy | Blues in the Mississippi Night | 37 | unsourced |
| Bob Geddins | Johnny Fuller | Production | 20 | unsourced |
| Quincy Jones | Louis Jordan | Arrangement/production | Jordan ep | unsourced |
| Ray Charles | Percy Mayfield | Label signing | 20 | unsourced |