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LEROY CARR £ SCRAPPER BLACKWELL
HOW LONG HAS THAT EVENING TRAIN BEEN GONE?
DISC A [1 of 4]
JSP Records (2008 )
Format:Flac
Leroy Carr was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1905 and grew up in Louisville and the black section of Indianapolis, Indiana. By 1928 he had partnered with the jazz guitarist Scrapper Blackwell, and their work showed a distinctive urban influence that was unlike the intensely emotional vocals and heavily rhythmatic guitar back up, often bottleneck guitar style, of the Mississippi bluesmen. Carr was one of the first Northern bluesmen. Vocalion Records recorded him in 1928 and his first release "How Long, How Long Blues" was an immediate success.[ The innovation was in the sophisticated piano-guitar accompaniment and the wistfully sd mood. Music had moved from the lone guitarist in the fields to clubs with pianos for ready entertainment. The success of his first release resulted in more Vocalion recordings. Although the Great Depression of the early 1930s slowed the music industry, Carr's success continued, reaching a peak number of releases in 1934. Throughout the early 1930s, Carr was one of the most popular bluesmen in America. While his professional career was successful, his personal life was spinning out of control, as he sank deeply into alcoholism. His sudden death in 1935 at the age of 30 was surrounded with rumour and mystery. Today most historians believed he died of nephritis. A few weeks after Carr's death, his guitarist, Blackwell, recorded a memorial, "My Old Pal Blues".
Disc: A
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. Box Car Blues
10. How Long, How Long Blues No 2
11. How Long, How Long Blues No 3
12. Baby Don’t You Leave Me No More
13. Tired Of Your Low Down Ways
14. I’m Going Away And Leave My Baby
15. Prison Bound Blues
16. You Don‘t Mean Me No Good
17. How About Me
18. Straight Alky Blues Part 1
19. Think Of Me Thinking Of You
20. The Truth About The Thing
21. Straight Alky Blues Part 2
22. Straight Alky Blues Part 3
23. Lifeboat Blues
24. Gambler’s Blues
25. There Ain’t Nobody Got It Like She Got It
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