Midnight Hour Blues.. Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell

[tejonpardo]

fantastic.....................­..



[bluesscotty769]

Thanks for posting this classic. I've been playing blues for over 40 years and it doesn't get any better, truly inspiring. I have this on a compilation, one of the first blue records I bought in the late 60s, and this tune still stand out. Their interplay speaks to the love they had for each other and perhaps explains why one died shortly after the other.

[ThePoboyms61s]

@zenguitarblues I am new to this but as I have read Leroy Carr died of alcohol poisoning Scrapper went on to record a few songs did not know he was murdered the original Sonny Boy Williamson was killed by an ice pick in the back sorry to lose both ThePoboyms61s

[blackandtanful]

なんと､1932年､ﾘﾛｲ･ｶｰの弾き語りﾌﾞﾙｰｽ･ﾋﾟｱ­ﾉだ!～このさり気ない哀感の歌いっぷりがイイ､ｷﾞﾀｰも素晴­らし!

[LeonidaEllison800]

DL the audio from this track at searchripgrab doht cohm.

[callippo99]

good to see this but what I'd like to hear is again is Carr's 'Alabama Women Blues'. That for me was his best record, dated around 1935 if I remember right. If anyone's got it UPLOAD IT!

[appledecca]

Thank You 1 for My AmericanA Channel...Sweet dreams,he he !

[busessuck1]

Hey sir, any chance you have the songs that robert actually did covers of uploaded?

apparently some variation of milk calf blues and kokomo blues - or something like that

[badpdx]

@busessuck1 : the most direct "cover" by Robert Johnson was Love in Vain, which incorporates the melody of When the Sun Goes Down. Johnson, however, added his own, poignant lyrics.

[busessuck1]

@badpdx yep, thanks for the answer but yous a bit late... people learn a lot in six months

[kidcalabria]

I love Leroy Carr. He was so smooth... you can imagine he and Blackwell play in the lobby of some Chicago hotel in the '20s, people having a good time, bootleg whiskey, floozies, dancing the two-step, the slow-drag... they sold loads of records too... great upload, thanks for posting this

[harpoonia6969]

@kidcalabria yeah man...I'm especially enjoying imagining the floozies

[bossanovaboy]

Great, and the recording is amazingly good for 1932..

[gimsi]

Wonderful music, dramatic and sincere.

[zenguitarblues]

WMG in their shortsightedness and greed see every view as a lost sale.

[LifeInBrunswick]

@zenguitarblues Yep. The phrase 'free promotion' doesn't enter into it for them.

[sirkickbutt1]

@zenguitarblues A lot of the black blues writers & performers got screwed their whole lives by record companies, perhaps most famously Willie Dixon. I think the artists several decades in their graves would prefer people hearing their music to WMG getting paid for it.

[TheGreatAbstracto]

Amazing that companies think sites like this COST them sales...

WAKE UP!

As for the noise on the side - LOVE IT! Get that Victrola spinnin and throw on the 78! The way it should be heard!

[TheGreatAbstracto]

Brilliant - keep up the good work mate! They aren't likely to "git ya". I'm pretty sure Sony will keep them busy enough tracking down Metallica clips... MWAH HA HA!

[zenguitarblues]

thanks~so far i have lost 1 video to WMG (geechie wiley).

Sony seem fair and don't take off the vid but just place adverts there.

[TheGreatAbstracto]

Dam - I posted in the wrong spot - ^^^ up there somewhere I think

[aaron4wilkins]

@zenguitarblues "...Yeah, i miss that Geechie Wiley,what a sound!,i sure enjoyed that, thanks!"

[TheZimma]

brilliant but has a lot of noise in background

[zenguitarblues]

thanks~sorry about the noise but i recorded this straight from a vinyl album.

[wheninroamful]

@TheZimma Do ghosts speak clearly?

[zenguitarblues]

thanks Cand N ~Scrapper came to a sad end murdered by his neighbour! so he did deserve better than that for sure

[CroatAndNettles]

Dylan was also an admirer of Scrapper. He said in a 1968 SingOut interview, "There is a strong line in all our music that may be traced back directly to Scrapper Blackwell. He was a truly great musician who did deserve more than was given to him."

[fendermac]

Thanks Steve.Great stuff.

[zenguitarblues]

thanks Greg :-)

[Gregparkerblues]

It was well worth 'dusting off' that one and giving it an 'airing'. Thanks again zenguitarblues. 5*****

[g0moz]

another good one subscribing to your channel gets me hear to hear the old masters I had not heard for some years. great stuff

[zenguitarblues]

pleased you like this Jan

[zenguitarblues]

thanks tc

[blindtcjohnson]

5/5!*