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Cow Cow Davenport
( born April 23, 1894, Anniston, Ala.;
died December 2, 1956, Cleveland,
Ohio)
Cow Cow Davenport was one of the earliest
boogie-woogie pianists. His walking bass figures and
rag-flavored rhythms along with his trademark tune, "Cow
Cow Blues," helped give life to the fledgling
boogie-woogie piano style in the 1920s.
Davenport had some piano training as a youth but was
mostly self-taught. Basing his early style on what he
heard from ragtime piano players, Davenport worked
with carnivals and vaudeville troupes, eventually
creating an act called Davenport and Co. with singer
Dora Carr. Together they played the TOBA (Theater
Owners' Booking Association) circuit in the early
1920s and recorded together.
Although the duo was fairly successful, Carr left
Davenport in the mid-'20s, after which Davenport wrote
"Cow Cow Blues," one of the most popular boogie-woogie
piano tunes ever recorded. Robert
Santelli
-- The Big Book of Blues : A Biographical
Encyclopedia
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MY
MUSICAL
LIFE
By Carl P.
McConnell
Mabel
McConnell talks about the Carter Family, Doc
& Carl,
The
Original Virginia Boys and the early days of
radio.-
But for a few twists of
fate, Atlanta could easily have grown to be the
recording center that Nashville is today.Pickin'
on
Peachtree traces Atlanta's emergence in
the 1920s as a major force in country recording and
radio broadcasting, a position of dominance it
enjoyed for some forty years. From the Old Time
Fiddlers' Conventions and barn dances through the
rise of station WSB and other key radio outlets,
Wayne W. Daniel thoroughly documents the
consolidation of country music as big business in
Atlanta. He also profiles a vast array of
performers, radio personalities, and recording
moguls who transformed the Peachtree city into the
nerve center of early country music.
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