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Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (1928-29)
(CD, 1993)
Primary Artist: Leroy Carr
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Format: CD
May 1993
Record Label: Document (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 788518513426 |
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Track Listing
1. My Own Lonesome Blues
2. How Long-How Long Blues
3. Broken Spoke Blues
4. Tennessee Blues
5. Truthful Blues
6. Mean Old Train Blues
7. You Got to Reap What You Sow
8. Low Down Dirty Blues
9. How Long How Long Blues-No. 2
10. How Long How Long Blues-Part 3
11. Baby Don't You Love Me No More
12. Tired of Your Low Down Ways
13. I'm Going Away and Leave My Baby
14. Prison Bound Blues
15. You Don't Mean Me No Good
16. How About Me?
17. Straight Alky Blues-Part 1
18. Think of Me Thinking of You
19. Truth About the Thing, The
20. Straight Alky Blues-Part 1
21. Straight Alky Blues-Part 2
22. Lifeboat Blues
23. Gambler's Blues
24. There Ain't Nobody Got It Like She's Got It
| Details | | Distributor: | Allegro Corporation (Dist | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Leroy Carr (vocals, piano, kazoo); Scrapper Blackwell (guitar).
Recorded in Indianapolis, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois in 1928 & 1929. Includes liner notes by Alan Balfour.
Born in Nashville and raised in Indianapolis, Leroy Carr was, according to some, the first urban blues piano player of note. Carr's playing and singing, accompanied invariably by the primal rhythm guitar of Scrapper Blackwell, has little of the desperation of many of the early rural bluesmen. Instead, he favored a relaxed, laid-back style that was considerably more sophisticated than previous artists.
Carr and Blackwell were wildly popular in their own time, and had Carr not drunk himself to death in 1935 at the age of 30, he undoubtedly would have become even more widely influential. This 24-track compilation--the first in a six-volume series collecting all of the pianist's extant recordings in chronological order--is remarkable, not least for revealing how fully formed Carr's musical vision was from the very beginning. Indeed, this set's second track, "How Long, How Long Blues," was a huge hit and an immediate blues classic.
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