Description
Clyde Davenport, both a great musician and repository of old tunes from south-central Kentucky, was born near the Tennessee border in 1921 to a farmer and fiddler, William, and Lucy Davenport. In 1943, Clyde returned from WWII combat in Italy to work at an auto factory and to fiddle daily on a Muncie, Indiana radio station. While tracks 2-16 with Hobart Dixon on guitar give an idea of the sound one might have heard listening to Clyde on radio, the other tracks only begin Clyde’s vast repertoire (Vol. 2, FRC 104). See also FRC1004 – Clyde Davenport DVD.
Additional Notes: Clyde Davenport
Track List
FRC103 – Clyde Davenport Vol
1
Tracks 2-16: Clyde Davenport, fiddle; Hobart Dixon,
- Hobart Dixon’s Introduction (0:12)
- Leather Britches (2:43)
- Ladies on the Steamboat (1:45)
- Big Footed Nigger (2:13)
- Sourwood Mountain (2:02
- Pull off Your Coat and Throw it in the Corner (1:50)
- Cumberland Gap (2:34)
- Lost Indian (3:51)
- Sandy Land (3:12)
- Sally in the Garden Shifting Sand (2:24)
- Sleeping Lula (2:26)
- Free Little Bird (2:26)
- Rusty (Rustic) Night Dance (3:04)
- New Broom (2:29)
- Wink the Other Eye (2:28)
- Roses at the Door (2:03)
- Hobart Dixon’s Goodbye (0:16)
Tracks 18-21: Clyde Davenport, banjo
- Uncle Clay Davenport’s John Henry (0:56)
- John T. Gregory’s John Henry (1:14)
- Clyde Davenport’s John Henry (0:26)
- Dave Macon’s John Henry (0:23)
Tracks 22-38: Clyde Davenport, fiddle, vocal
- Devilish Mary (2:15)
- Cuckoo’s Nest (2:12)
- Fire in the Mountain (Old Time Way) (1:09)
- The Girl I Left Behind (1:43)
- Sourwood Mountain (1:30)
- Blackberry Blossom (1:48)
- The Rolling Mill is Burning Down (2:09)
- Coal Creek March (1:17)
- Drunken Hiccups (4:00)
- Poor Ellen Smith (1:43)
- Old Johnny Booger (0:58)
- Rabbit in a Log (and I Ain’t Got No Dog) (1:20)
- Easy Rider (1:40)
- Johnson’s Old Grey Mule (fiddle) (1:39)
- Flop Eared Mule (1:48)
- Wild Goose Chase (2:03)
- Done Gone (2:47)
