Quote Charlie Sheen="Charlie Sheen"If it wasn't for hip hop sampling old funk, r n b, and soul tracks, a huge amount of great music would've been lost to generations of music fans. I know I wouldn't know about the likes of James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davies, Mose Allison, George Clinton, Sly and the Family Stone etc, if I didn't listen to rap music. Much in same way I wouldn't know about great blues artists like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, BB King etc if it wasn't for bands like Fleetwood mac, The Stones, Zeppelin, The Who, Cream, and the Yardbirds.
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So the Northern Soul scene - which still flourishes to this day - would have ignored all these artists? I think I've heard tracks by all those, bar Miles Davies, played at one time or another