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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Olderen, Martin van, Cow Cow Blues, Liner notes, Oldie Blues OL 2811, 1979.
- ↑ Bob Hall, "Cow Cow Blues", in Edward Komara (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Blues, Routledge, 2006, p. 232.
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