The Essential

Compilation by Leroy Carr

Released 2002

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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Release credits

  • piano [18]
  • piano [1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.17-18, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.12-17], vocal [1.1-6, 1.8-14, 1.17-18, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.12-17]
  • 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]

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