Leroy Carr
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Blues pianist, singer, and songwriter Leroy Carr was born in Nashville, Tennessee on March 27, 1905, although some reports state his year of birth as 1904. Unlike his raw blues contemporaries, Leroy Carr had a smoother style that influenced artists such as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. After dropping out of high school and performing in a circus in the early 1920s, Leroy Carr enlisted in the US Army. He then moved back to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he and his mother had moved and then served a year at the Indiana State Penitentiary for bootlegging. After striking up a musical partnership with guitarist Scrapper Blackwell, he began his prolific but short recording career. Signing to the Vocalion Records label, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell recorded a series of singles beginning with several 1928 titles including âMean Old Train Blues,â âHow Long,â and âTennessee Blues.â His output continued with many singles including âYou Got to Reap What You Sowâ (1929), âSloppy Drunk Bluesâ (1930), âPapa Wants a Cookieâ (1931), âGone Mother Bluesâ (1932), âBarrel House Womanâ (1934), and âTake a Walk Around the Cornerâ (1935). In February 1935, Leroy Carr recorded his final session, âSix Cold Feet in the Ground,â without Scrapper, who had walked out of the session. An alcoholic, Leroy Carr died of nephritis on April 29, 1935. Since his death, his music has been reissued and repackaged many times over the years and his reputation as a blues icon has remained intact.
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- Muddy Water
- Blues Before Sunrise
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Motherless Child
- Bad Luck All the Time by Leroy Carr
- My Good for Nothin' Gal
- Ain't It a Shame by Leroy Carr
- Black Wagon Blues by Leroy Carr
- Going Back Home by Leroy Carr
- Barrelhouse Woman No. 2
- Shinin Pistol by Leroy Carr
- Ain't It a Shame by Leroy Carr
- Florida Bound Blues by Leroy Carr
- Papa's on the House Top
- Evil Hearted Woman by Leroy Carr
- Papa's Got Your Water On
- Cruel Woman Blues by Leroy Carr
- Eleven Twenty-Nine Blues by Leroy Carr
- Church House Blues by Leroy Carr
- Broken Hearted Man by Leroy Carr
- Rocks In My Bed
- Hustlers Blues by Leroy Carr
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- Church House Blues by Leroy Carr
