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James Carr (June 13, 1942 - January 7, 2001), was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Rhythm & Blues
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 and soul
Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
 musical artist.

Born to a Baptist preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi
Coahoma, Mississippi

Coahoma is a town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 325 at the 2000 census....
, Carr began singing in church and was performing in gospel
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, when he began recording in the mid-'60s
1960 in music

Events*January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U.S. Army*February 6 - Songwriter Jesse Belvin dies in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, California....
 for Goldwax Records, a small Memphis based label.

Carr first made the R&B charts in 1966 with "You've Got My Mind Messed Up", followed by his most famous song "The Dark End of the Street
The Dark End of the Street

"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 in music Soul music song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first performed by James Carr ....
", written by Dan Penn
Dan Penn

Dan Penn is an United States singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul music hits of the 1960s including "Dark End of the Street" & "Do Right Woman" and "Out of Left Field" & "Cry Like A Baby" ....
 and Chips Moman
Chips Moman

Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is an United States record producer, guitarist and songwriter. The nickname "Chips" apparently derives from his love of gambling....
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James Carr (June 13, 1942 - January 7, 2001), was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Rhythm & Blues
Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
 and soul
Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
 musical artist.

Born to a Baptist preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi
Coahoma, Mississippi

Coahoma is a town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 325 at the 2000 census....
, Carr began singing in church and was performing in gospel
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, when he began recording in the mid-'60s
1960 in music

Events*January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U.S. Army*February 6 - Songwriter Jesse Belvin dies in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, California....
 for Goldwax Records, a small Memphis based label.

Carr first made the R&B charts in 1966 with "You've Got My Mind Messed Up", followed by his most famous song "The Dark End of the Street
The Dark End of the Street

"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 in music Soul music song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first performed by James Carr ....
", written by Dan Penn
Dan Penn

Dan Penn is an United States singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul music hits of the 1960s including "Dark End of the Street" & "Do Right Woman" and "Out of Left Field" & "Cry Like A Baby" ....
 and Chips Moman
Chips Moman

Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is an United States record producer, guitarist and songwriter. The nickname "Chips" apparently derives from his love of gambling....
. Carr continued to record for Goldwax until the label closed in 1969 but failed to reach the same heights with his subsequent releases.

Carr suffered from bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is a Classification of mental disorders that describes a category of mood disorders, or mood swings, defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania....
 for most of his life which affected his career. This was evident during a tour of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 in the 1970s
1970 in music

Events * Charles Wuorinen becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.* January 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees....
 when he froze in front of an audience following an overdose of antidepressant
Antidepressant

An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication used for alleviating major depressive disorder or dysthymia. Drug groups known as MAOIs, tricyclics, and second-generation antidepressants such as SSRIs, and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors are particularly associated with the term....
s. However he completed the Japan tour with much success. A resurgence in interest in his music, spurred by his portrayal in the 1986 book Sweet Soul Music, helped return Carr to the recording studio but failed to deliver any further chart success.

While Carr was never as popular among general audiences as contemporaries like Otis Redding
Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
 and Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke is an United States Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter. During the half-century that he has performed, he has drawn from his roots: Gospel , soul music, and blues , as well as developing his own style in a time when Rhythm and blues, and rock were still in their infancy....
, his vocal performances on select tracks are still considered unmatched by many soul music
Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
 and rhythm & blues fans.

James Carr died from lung cancer
Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissue of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs....
 in a Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
 nursing home
Nursing home

A nursing home, skilled nursing facility , or skilled nursing unit , also known as a rest home, is a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living....
 in 2001, aged 58.

Discography


LPs
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....

  • You Got My Mind Messed Up
    You Got My Mind Messed Up

    You Got My Mind Messed Up is a 1966 album by James Carr .Although Carr is not as well known as his contemporaries such as Otis Redding or Aretha Franklin, "You Got My Mind Messed Up" has been cited as one of the top soul music albums of all time....
     (1967) R&B: #25
  • A Man Needs A Woman
    A Man Needs a Woman

    A Man Needs a Woman is a 1968 album by James Carr . This would be the last of Carr's albums until his come-back album Take Me to the Limit in 1991....
     (1968)
  • Take Me To The Limit (1991)
  • Soul Survivor (1994)


Singles
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....

  • "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man" (1966) R&B #23, US #85
  • "Love Attack" (1966) R&B #21, US #99
  • "You've Got My Mind Messed Up" (1966) R&B #7 US #63
  • "Let It Happen" (1967) R&B #30
  • "The Dark End of the Street
    The Dark End of the Street

    "The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 in music Soul music song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first performed by James Carr ....
    " (1967) R&B #10 US #77
  • "I'm a Fool for You" (1967) R&B #42 US #97
  • "A Man Needs a Woman" (1968) R&B #16 US #63
  • "Freedom Train" (1969) R&B #39
  • "To Love Somebody" (1969) R&B #44


Compilations

  • Complete, Vol. 1 (1994)
  • Complete, Vol. 2 (1994) Goldwax
  • The Essential James Carr (1995) Razor & Tie
  • 24 Karat Soul (2001) Soultrax
  • The Complete Goldwax Singles (2001) Kent
  • My Soul Is Satisfied/The Rest of James Carr (2004) Kent


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