Whiskey Is My Habit Women Is All I Crave: Best of [Original recording remastered]

Leroy Carr | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00023GGEY
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,103 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #67 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Memphis Blues

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. How Long-How Long Blues

2. Prison Bound Blues

3. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1

4. Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 2

5. Gambler's Blues

6. Sloppy Drunk Blues

7. Papa's on the Housetop

8. Midnight Hour Blues

9. Mean Mistreater Mama

10. Hurry Down Sunshine

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Disc: 2

1. I Believe I'll Make a Change

2. Don't Start No Stuff

3. Bobo Stomp

4. Big Four Blues

5. Hard Hearted Papa

6. You Left Me Crying

7. Evil Hearted Woman

8. Good Woman Blues

9. Hustler's Blues

10. Eleven Twenty-Nine Blues

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Music - Disappointing Value, July 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Whiskey Is My Habit Women Is All I Crave: Best of (Audio CD)

Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell made great music - no question about it, and much of it is included here.

However, for the price, I found this compilation to be disappointing as the remastering doesn't strike me as all that solid. I believe a MUCH better value is Leroy Carr's "Essential" two disk set which contains virtually the same songs at almost half the price.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good compilation of an overlooked artist's work, March 8, 2006

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Lee C. Grady (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whiskey Is My Habit Women Is All I Crave: Best of (Audio CD)

Leroy Carr deserves more attention than he has received over the years. His music was far more influential than most of the other blues artists of the 1920s and 30s - at least until white folk enthusiasts and rock stars "discovered" delta blues singers in the 1960s. Carr has a relaxed vocal delivery and piano style that really grows on you upon repeated listening. This is a good compilation of his work. I think it focuses a little too much on his 1934 sessions, and is missing the classic "When the Sun Goes Down" (the song that inspired Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain"). It also misses the true variety of his output. However, I think the remastering on this set is better than any other I've heard. I recognize that the remastering of 78 era recordings is a matter of taste. The approach with this set was to remove the random clicks and pops, but leave the background crackle intact. In my opinion, this preserves the dynamic qualities of the original recording. By contrast, the "Essential" collection on Classic Blues is a typical example of remastering using heavy noise reduction. This removes most of the background crackle but leaves the music sounding dull and lifeless (to my ears, anyway). My one problem with the sound on this compilation is that some of the source material is inferior - I don't believe that these records are particularly rare.