Dora Carr Explained

Dora Carr was an American musician, best known for her work in the early and mid-1920s with pianist and arranger Cow Cow Davenport. Carr is best remembered for the song "Cow Cow Blues" and playing boogie-woogie. Dora Carr was also a vocalist who went on tour in the 1920s performing at venues.

According to Harlem Renaissance Lives (edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham), Davenport and Carr met in 1922^[1] and toured the Theater Owners Booking Association as "Davenport and Company".^{[2] [3]} Eight songs were released by Vocalion Records in the vaudevillian duet style. The band broke up when Carr left Davenport for another man, whom she later married.

Notes and References

1. Peter Muir, "Davenport, Charles Edward 'Cow Cow'", in Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (eds), Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 144.
2. Olderen, Martin van, Cow Cow Blues, Liner notes, Oldie Blues OL 2811, 1979.
3. Bob Hall, "Cow Cow Blues", in Edward Komara (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Blues, Routledge, 2006, p. 232.