Euday L. Bowman (b. November 9, 1887, Fort Worth, Texas, USA – d. May 26, 1949, New York City, New York, USA) wrote ragtime in the style known as “Texas Ragtime.” He was the composer (with his sister) of the popular “Twelfth Street Rag” in 1914, named after a street in Fort Worth’s red light district, and a pastiche of other rags he wrote during or immediately after his time as a pianist in the bordellos of Kansas City. The “Twelfth Street Rag” was played by Earl Fuller’s Novelty Orchestra, Ted Lewis, Fats Waller, Frinkie Carle, Liberace, Bert Weedon, and Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra.
The ragtime pianist Brun Campbell published false remarks about Bowman: that he lost a leg trying to hop a train that he died without heirs. In fact, it was his cousin that lost the leg and at the time of Bowman’s claim, there were 24 claimants involved in a lawsuit establishing the true heirs.
Subgenre: Folk Ragtime
Best known work(s): “Twelfth Street Rag” (1914)
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