James Carr
11 articles
Audio interviews
Roosevelt Jamison on James Carr (1985)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 1985
Roosevelt Jamison – friend, mentor and sometime manager – remembers deep soul greats James Carr and O.V. Wright.
File format: mp3; file size: 49.6mb, total interview length: 51' 37" sound quality: ***
Interview by Andy Kershaw, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 August 1987
The Lost Man of Southern Soul looks back at his Mississippi childhood; his background singing gospel; meeting Quinton Claunch and starting to make records, and after the lost years, touring Japan and his current activities.
File format: mp3; file size: 23mb, interview length: 25' 06" sound quality: *****
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The Great Unknowns No. 9: James Carr, the Memphis Master
Retrospective by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
JAMES CARR has never had a hit record in this country and has now disappeared from the scene. Yet at one time he was seriously ...
James Carr: At The Dark End Of The Street (Blue Side, import)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1987
"THE WORLD'S Greatest Soul Singer", boasts the cover of this magnificent album, and I ain't about to argue. In fact I have long regarded the ...
James Carr: At the Dark End of the Street (Blue Side)
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1987
Artist: James Carr.Album: At the Dark End of the Street (Blue Side). ...
James Carr: The Lost Voice Of Soul
Report and Interview by Robert Gordon, Q, October 1992
WHEN IT WAS BUILT IN THE 1950s, Memphis's Mid South Building was probably stylish and sleek. Today, the blocky turquoise exterior pales next to the ...
James Carr: At the Dark End of the Soul
Profile and Interview by Robert Gordon, L.A. Weekly, May 1993
THE WALLS OF the office are mostly bare, the blue carpeting subdued. The fax machine in the corner seems like an anachronism. Only the large ...
Cheatin' Meeting of Minds: 'The Dark End of the Street'
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, 9 January 1994
"THIS IS probably one of the greatest songs that's ever come out of black American music," announces Ricky Ross over the piano intro to Deacon ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 2000
THE SETTING is not a promising one. It’s late on a muggy Friday night, a "blues" club on Bleecker Street, NYC, June of 1996. A ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
ONE OF THE finest exponents of Southern soul, whose intense performances won him a strong cult following, Carr made the original versions of the often-recorded ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 15 June 2016
Guitarist, record producer and songwriter who co-wrote 'The Dark End of the Street' and worked with Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Tammy Wynette. ...
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