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Cow Cow Davenport and the "Cow Cow Blues" by Trav S.D.

April is the birthday of the Cow Cow Davenport (Charles Edward Davenport, 1894-1955). The Anniston, Alabama native was sent to a theological seminary in his youth but preferred to play low-down blues, ragtime and boogie-woogie music on piano and organ, which got him expelled. In the '20s he joined a medicine show called Banhoof's Traveling […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:39AM on April 23, 2019

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