The greatest Southern soul singer only a handful may ever have heard of, and a tragic man in the bargain (plagued with mental illness most of his life, the miracle may be that anyone was able to get him to record at all) . . .
! No longer availableUnknown, too, for a long time: that shivering guitar on that track (and on the album from whence it originally hailed,
You Got My Mind Messed Up, the album above all that provides the view that Carr at the top of his game may have been Otis Redding's only competitor as
the Southern soul singer of the 1960s), came from moonlighting Stax stalwart Steve Cropper.
