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Whiskey Is My Habit, Women Is All I Crave: The Best of Leroy Carr
(CD, 2004)
Primary Artist: Leroy Carr
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Format: CD
May 2004
2 Discs
Record Label: Legacy Recordings
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 696998698925 |
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Details
Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. How Long: How Long Blues
2. Prison Bound Blues
3. Straight Alky Blues Pt. 1
4. Straight Alky Blues Pt. 2
5. Gambler's Blues
6. Sloppy Drunk Blues
7. Papa's on the House Top
8. Midnight Hour Blues
9. Mean Mistreater Mama
10. Hurry Down Sunshine
11. Corn Licker Blues
12. Shady Lane Blues
13. Blues Before Sunrise
14. Take a Walk Around the Corner
15. I Ain't Got No Money Now
16. Motherless Child
17. My Woman's Gone Wrong
18. Southbound Blues
19. Barrelhouse Woman
20. Muddy Water
DISC 2:
1. I Believe I'll Make a Change
2. Don't Start No Stuff
3. Bobo Stomp
4. Big Four Blues
5. Hard Hearted Papa
6. You Left Me Crying
7. Evil Hearted Woman
8. Good Woman Blues
9. Hustler's Blues
10. Eleven Twenty-Nine Blues
11. You Got Me Grieving
12. Bread Baker
13. Tight Times Blues
14. Black Wagon Blues
15. Shinin' Pistol
16. It's Too Short
17. My Good For Nothin' Gal
18. Suicide Blues
19. Church House Blues
20. Six Cold Feet in the Ground
Album Notes
Personnel: Leroy Carr (vocals, piano); Josh White, Scrapper Blackwell (guitar).
Liner Note Author: Tom Piazza.
Recording information: 1928 - 1935.
Industry Reviews
4 1/2 stars out of 5 - [The songs] give delight with his understated, then-revolutionary singing style juxtaposed against his low-key, adequate piano and the quietly marvelous guitar of Scrapper Blackwell.
4 stars out of 5 -- An amazing 75 years on from their original release the haunting resonance of Carr's downbeat hymns to despair and desperation is still there for all to hear.
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