The Essential

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Midnight Hour Blues
  3:06
• 2
  Tired of Your Low Down Ways
  3:13
• 3
  Memphis Town
  2:49
• 4
  Straight Alky Blues, Part 1
  3:23
• 5
  Straight Alky Blues, Part 2
  3:22
• 6
  I’m Going Away and Leave My Baby
  3:09
• 7
  Kokomo Blues

  Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell
  3:04
• 8
  Getting All Wet
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Alabama Woman Blues
  2:51
• 10
  How Long, How Long Blues
  3:02
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Quittin’ Papa
  3:12
• 12
  The Dirty Dozen
  2:53
• 13
  Papa’s on the Housetop
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Gone Mother Blues
  3:03
• 15
  It’s Too Short
  2:56
• 16
  D Blues

  Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell
  2:46
• 17
  Papa Wants a Cookie
  2:44
• 18
  Prison Bound Blues
  3:03
• CD 2
• 1
  Mean Mistreatin’ Mama
  3:06
• 2
  Sloppy Drunk Blues
  2:58
• 3
  Long Road Blues
  3:13
• 4
  Four Day Blues
  3:03
• 5
  A Blues

  Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell
  3:05
• 6
  I Keep the Blues
  2:57
• 7
  Blues Before Sunrise
  3:33
• 8
  Blue Night Blues
  2:58
• 9
  I Believe I’ll Make a Change
  2:59
• 10
  Bo Bo Stomp
  2:54
• 11
  Church House Blues
  2:49
• 12
  Just a Rag
  3:12
• 13
  Ain’t It a Shame
  3:12
• 14
  Big Four Blues
  3:08
• 15
  How Long Has the Evening Train Been Gone?
  2:53
• 16
  Bad Luck All the Time
  2:49
• 17
  Six Cold Feet in the Ground
  3:04
• 18
  My Old Pal Blues

  Leroy Carr with Scrapper Blackwell
  3:04

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Blues Masters, Volume 7

Blues Masters, Volume 7 2012

The Best of Leroy Carr: Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave

The Best of Leroy Carr: Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave 2004

Unissued Test Pressings and Alternate Takes, 1934-1937

Unissued Test Pressings and Alternate Takes, 1934-1937 1996

Hurry Down Sunshine

Hurry Down Sunshine 1995

The Blues Collection: Leroy Carr, Naptown Blues

The Blues Collection: Leroy Carr, Naptown Blues 1993

Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 6: 1934–1935

Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 6: 1934–1935 1992

Release credits

• Dorothy Rice
  piano [18]
• Leroy Carr
  piano [2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.12-17, 1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.17-18], vocal [1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.17-18, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.12-17]
• Scrapper Blackwell
  guitar [1.1-14, 1.16-18, 2.1-6, 2.8, 2.14-16, 2.18], solo [1.16, 2.5], vocal [1.3, 1.7-8, 1.12, 1.17, 2.18]

Issues

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  The Essential

  2x CD
  2002