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Track Listing
1. Bread Baker
2. Tight Time Blues
3. Longing For My Sugar
4. Black Wagon Blues
5. Shinin' Pistol
6. Arlena - (take 1)
7. Arlena - (take 2)
8. It's Too Short - (take 1)
9. It's Too Short - (take 2)
10. My Good For Nothin' Gal
11. Suicide Blues
12. Rozetta Blues
13. Church House Blues
14. Rocks in My Bed
15. When the Sun Goes Down
16. Bad Luck All the Time
17. Big Four Blues
18. Just a Rag
19. Ain't It a Shame
20. Going Back Home
21. Six Cold Feet in the Ground
| Details | | Distributor: | Allegro Corporation (Dist | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Leroy Carr (vocals, piano); Scrapper Blackwell (spoken vocals, guitar); Josh White (guitar).
Recorded in New York, New York on December 17 & 18, 1934 and Chicago, Illinois on February 25, 1935. 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 has little of the desperation of many of the early rural bluesmen. Instead, he favors a relaxed, laid-back style considerably more sophisticated than earlier performers. Unlike a number of bluesmen better-known today, Carr was wildly popular in his own time, and had he not drunk himself to death in 1935 at the age of 30 he would undoubtedly have become even more widely influential.
This 21-track compilation--the last in a series collecting all of the pianist's extant recordings in chronological order--shows that at the time of his early death, Carr was playing and singing better than ever. The frustration of this set is in imagining what he might have done next if he hadn't ended up "Six Cold Feet in the Ground," as his last recording puts it, so soon.
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