CARR, LEROY

CARR, LEROY. Blues pianist (27 March 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee; 29 April 1935 in Memphis, Tennessee). Carr and Francis (Scrapper) Blackwell won recognition as a team rather than as individual performers. Carr was taken to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1912. Self-taught, he played piano as a child, joined a traveling circus while still a boy, and later served in the army. Blackwell came from a musical family and began playing on homemade guitars as a child. He moved to Indianapolis at...