Clyde Davenport: Shades of Clyde
"Clyde is Cool." Buddy Ingram, Bobby Fulcher
No living musician sustains more of the 19th Century solo fiddling tradition than Clyde Davenport. His playing preserves rare tunes and and a beautiful sound - deeply resonant, droningm complicated by odd tunes of melody and meter, that had all but vanished by the time he was born.
Clyde is also a masterful clawhammer banjo player and a virtuoso breakdown fiddler equally adept at racing dance tunes and the sleek blues of Leonard Rutherford.
Clyde has been invited to paly at many prestigious venues: the National Folk Festival, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Tennessee Banjo Institute, the Smnithsonian Festival of American Folklife and three presidential inaugurations. The National Endowment for the Arts recognized Clyde Davenport in 1990, awarding him a National Heritage Fellowship.
Here he is supported by multi instrumentalist, Bobby Fulcher.
- Ladies on the Steam Boat
- HornpipePeas in the Pot
- New Broom
- Lazy John
- Betty Baker
- Little Bessie
- Little Boy, Little Boy
- Polecat's Den
- Wait a Little While My Honey
- Dandy Jim
- Rattlin Down the Acorns
- Asked That Pretty Girl to Be My Wife
- Wild Goose Chase
- Flatwoods
- Radio Song
- Five Mile to Town
- Lost John
- Kitty Puss
- Open the Gate
- Buckin Mule
- With the Other Eye
- Puncheon Camp
- Sally Johnson
- Banjo Tune
- Hesitation Blues
- Sleeping Lula
- Bedbug Blues
- All Night Long
- Sandy land
- Callahan
- Getting Up the Stairs
- Sally in the Garden
- Sugar in the Gourd
- Jenny in the Cotton Patch
- Drunken Hiccups
- Zollies Retreat
- Bonaparte's Retreat
- Black Snake
