Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Billy Davenport's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
The Creative Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Billy Davenport (April 23, 1931 – December 24, 1999) was an American drummer known for his work with blues musicians such as Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, and Paul Butterfield. The birth-card coordinate for April 23 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2015 Performers — inducted member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Billy Davenport's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Billy Davenport. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.
Billy Davenport in the public record
He played on the Butterfield album East-West and retired from music briefly until 1972, and then again from 1974 to 1981. Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Davenport died in December 1999. He was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 as an early member of the Butterfield Band.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Billy Davenport (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Billy Davenport's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♣, 10♥, J♦, 7♠, 8♥, K♦, 9♦, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 6♣, 6♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Other inductees with this card
- Adrian Smith — 2026 Performers with Iron Maiden
- Andrew Woolfolk — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Ann Wilson — 2013 Performers with Heart
- Aretha Franklin — 1987 Performers
- Bill Pinkney — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
- Bobby Byrd — 2012 Performers with The Famous Flames
- Daryl Hall — 2014 Performers with Hall & Oates
- Elton John — 1994 Performers
- Geezer Butler — 2006 Performers with Black Sabbath
- Gem Archer — 2026 Performers with Oasis
- Hilton Valentine — 1994 Performers with The Animals
- Larry Dunn — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
- 13 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Billy Davenport's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. April 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Billy Davenport's dates come from?
- Birth date 1931-04-23 is the day-precision date on Billy Davenport's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Billy Davenport) + Wikidata CC0 (Q863062). Birth date 1931-04-23 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).