This is a beautiful track by Carr, seemingly fast-paced yet delicately crooned and accompanied, with powerful, bittersweet fills by Scrapper Blackwell on guitar that are the perfect foil to Carr's gliding voice and laid-back piano. The tempo and mood are perfectly sustained, the literary content is sad and poignant. One of the best by this classic duo.
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This is a beautiful track by Carr, seemingly fast-paced yet delicately crooned and accompanied, with powerful, bittersweet fills by Scrapper Blackwel… read more
This is a beautiful track by Carr, seemingly fast-paced yet delicately crooned and accompanied, with powerful, bittersweet fills by Scrapper Blackwell on guitar that are the perfect foil… read more
Leroy Carr (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 27, 1905 - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced artists like Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues", with the guitarist Scrapper Blackwell on Vocalion Records in 1928 (as Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell), for which Carr wrote the music. The song is commonly referred to as "How Long Blues" and is a blues standard that has be… read more
Leroy Carr (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 27, 1905 - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning… read more
Leroy Carr (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 27, 1905 - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style infl… read more