Leroy Carr - Complete Recorded Works [6 CD, 1992] [FLAC]

 

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.



Volume 1
01 - My own lonesome blues
02 - How long - how long blues
03 - Broken spoke blues
04 - Tennessee blues
05 - Truthful blues
06 - Mean old train blues
07 - You go to reap what you sow
08 - Low down dirty blues
09 - How long how long blues - no. 2
10 - How long how long blues - part 3
11 - Baby don't you love me no more
12 - Tired of your low down ways
13 - I'm going away and leave my baby
14 - Prison bound blues
15 - You don't mean me no good
16 - How about me?
17 - Straight alky blues - part 1 (c-2966)
18 - Think of me thinking of you
19 - The truth about that thing
20 - Straight alky blues - part 1 (c-3144)
21 - Straight alky blues - part 2 (c-3145)
22 - Lifeboat blues
23 - Gambler's blues
24 - There ain't nobody got it like she's got it

Volume 2
01 - That's all right for you
02 - Wrong man blues
03 - Naptown blues
04 - The new how long how long blues
05 - Love hides all faults
06 - I know that I'll be blue
07 - Gettin' all wet
08 - Rainy day blues
09 - Blue with the blues
10 - Just worryin' blues
11 - Baby you done put that thing on me
12 - I won't miss you when you're gone
13 - Don't you get tired of riding that same train all the time?
14 - I'm going back to Tennessee
15 - Christmas in jail - ain't that a pain?
16 - Prison cell blues
17 - That's tellin' 'em
18 - Papa wants a cookie
19 - Memphis town
20 - Don't say goodbye
21 - I ain't got no gal
22 - Goodbye blues
23 - The dirty dozen
24 - Workhouse blues

Volume 3
01 - Let's make up and be friends again
02 - Let's disagree
03 - Sloppy drunk blues
04 - Hard times done drove me to drink
05 - Long road blues
06 - Jail cell blues
07 - Four day rider
08 - Alabama women blues
09 - Papa's on the house top
10 - Carried water for the elephant
11 - Low down dog blues
12 - Nineteen thirty one blues
13 - Love crying blues
14 - Papa's got your water on
15 - Big house blues
16 - New how long how long blues - part 2
17 - What more can I do?
18 - Papa wants to knock a jug
19 - How long has that evening train been gone?
20 - Quittin' papa
21 - Lonesome nights
22 - I keep the blues

Volume 4
01 - Gone mother blues
02 - Midnight hour blues
03 - Moonlight blues
04 - The depression blues
05 - Mean mistreater mama (take 1)
06 - Mean mistreater mama (take 2)
07 - Mean mistreater mama no. 2
08 - Court room blues
09 - Hurry down sunshine
10 - Corn licker blues
11 - Hold them puppies
12 - Shady lane blues
13 - Blues she gave me
14 - You can't run my business no more
15 - Blues before sunrise (take 1)
16 - Blues before sunrise (take 2)
17 - I ain't got no money now
18 - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (take 1)
19 - Stormy night blues (take 2)
20 - Take a walk around the corner
21 - Baby, come back to me
22 - Blue night blues
23 - My woman's gone wrong

Volume 5
01 - Southbound blues
02 - Barrel house woman
03 - Barrel house woman no. 2
04 - Florida bound blues
05 - Cruel woman blues
06 - Muddy water
07 - I believe I'll make a change
08 - Black gal (what makes your head so hard?)
09 - Don't start no stuff
10 - George Street blues
11 - Bo bo stomp
12 - Big four blues
13 - Hard hearted papa (take 1)
14 - Hard hearted papa (take 2)
15 - You left me crying (take 1)
16 - You left me crying (take 2)
17 - Broken hearted man
18 - Evil-hearted woman (take 1)
19 - Good woman blues
20 - Hustler's blues
21 - Eleven twenty-nine blues
22 - You've got me grieving

Volume 6
01 - Bread baker
02 - Tight time blues
03 - Longing for my sugar
04 - Black wagon blues
05 - Shinin' pistol
06 - Arlena (take 1)
07 - Arlena (take 2)
08 - It's too short (take 1)
09 - It's too short (take 2)
10 - My good for nothin' gal
11 - Suicide blues (take 1)
12 - Bozetta blues (take 1)
13 - Church house blues (take 2)
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