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James Edward Carr was a blues singer born in Clarksdale Mississippi in 1942. James was born the third of seven children. Early on in life James suffered abuse at the hands of his father who was a preacher. After his mother died at the age of nine he left home and move to Memphis Tennessee. While living in Memphis as a child from place to place, James roamed the Memphis streets. He didn't attend school or have any formal teaching, James learned from the streets. He perfected his craft as a blues singer in the streets. He joined a couple of gospel groups before meeting and marrying Willie Lee Moore at the young age of twenty. After having his first child, James Edward Carr Jr, James Sr landed his first break by signing with Goldwax records. As a young musician struggling with a mental illness disorder, James Sr. went on to record several tracks that landed in the billboard top 100. James Carr Sr. was taken advantage of by the music industry and was cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars. This book tells the good, bad and ugly story of James Carr's life from beginning to end.
THE prison autobiography from the man who never stopped fighting.
James Edward Carr was a blues singer born in Clarksdale Mississippi in 1942. James was born the third of seven children. Early on in life James suffered abuse at the hands of his father who was a preacher. After his mother died at the age of nine he left home and move to Memphis Tennessee. While living in Memphis as a child from place to place, James roamed the Memphis streets. He didn't attend school or have any formal teaching, James learned from the streets. He perfected his craft as a blues singer in the streets. He joined a couple of gospel groups before meeting and marrying Willie Lee Moore at the young age of twenty. After having his first child, James Edward Carr Jr, James Sr landed his first break by signing with Goldwax records. As a young musician struggling with a mental illness disorder, James Sr. went on to record several tracks that landed in the billboard top 100. James Carr Sr. was taken advantage of by the music industry and was cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars. This book tells the good, bad and ugly story of James Carr's life from beginning to end.
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Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.... a panoramic survey of a lost world [and] one of the best books ever written on American popular music'. Since then it has acquired the status of a classic. Pitchfork included it among its '50 Favourite Music Books of All Time,' the Daily Beast placed it on their 'Essential Civil Rights Reading List,' David Bowie named it one of his '100 Must-Read books', while noted author Ta Nehisi Coates, whose work chronicles the contemporary racial divide, called it 'one of the ten books I couldn't live without.' A gripping narrative that captures the t...