Davenport, Cow-Cow

Davenport, Cow-Cow 23 April 1894; Anniston, AL – 3 December 1955; Cleveland, OH Charles Edward “Cow-Cow” Davenport is best remembered for his song “ Cow Cow Blues ,” one of the earliest recorded examples of boogie-woogie piano playing. Davenport grew up as the son of a minister, Clement Davenport, and learned to play the piano from his mother, Queen Victoria Jacobs, a church organist. Originally destined for the ministry, like his father, Charles was expelled from the Alabama Theological…