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Bob Davenport

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Renowned British folksinger Bob Davenport is a leading tone of voice within the revival since showing up along with his Balladeers in the first ’60s at Southampton’s famous Fo’c’sle Folk Golf club. He spent nearly all his career using the Rakes, a quartet comprising Paul Gross (fiddle), Michael Plunkett (fiddle and whistle), and Reg Hall (melodeon), with whom he spent 40 years. He offers appeared on several compilations throughout his profession, including Topic Information’ superb nautical compilation Blow the person Down as well as the mining anthology The Iron Muse. He released Common Rock in 2005, an excellent assortment of traditional and modern folk tracks with guests offering Richard & Linda Thompson, Norma Waterson, and Chumbawamba.

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Music Songs Wild, Wild Whiskey, I Am a Rover, Wealthy Squire, Down The Long Road, Song of the Other Ranks, Great Little Army March, Davenport's Retreat, Tom's Gone to Hilo, Police Patrol, Davenport's Cakewalk, Come All Ye Gallant Drivers, Come All Ye Tramps & Hawkers, Bottle Bank, The Blarney Stone, Kerry Polka / I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue, Trust No Man, Those Men We See, The Row Between The Cages, I Wish They'd Do It Now, I Wish You Were Here Again, The Sergeant's Returned / Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major, The Star of the County Down, The Green Banks of Yarrow, I Am a Rambling Man, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, You Came Back Down That Long Road, Have You Forgotten Yet / When This Bloody War Is Over, Unemployed Men Stand On The Corner / Mccafferty / I Don't Want To Join the Army, Wild Rover, The Bells of Rhymney / Johnny Miner, The Close of an Irish Day / Wild Hills of Wannies, Once I Had An Old Hen
Albums The Common Stone, Down The Long Road, Postcards Home, The Red Haired Lad


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Short Cut 1999 Short David
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