Leroy Carr was a native of Nashville, Tennessee, born March 27, 1905. Carr had taught himself how to play the piano. In the 1920's and the 1930's, among African-American audiences that nurtured the blues, there was hardly a better known performer than Leroy Carr. He made hundreds of recordings, the first of which was "How Long - How Long Blues" and changed the blues world forever. "How Long, How Long Blues" was a hit from the start. Outwardly there was nothing very extraordinary about it; its theme of a man watching a train carry his lover away from town had been repeated in numerous blues lyrics, and although Carr and Blackwell were both solid, infectious instrumentalists, neither was a brilliant virtuoso. Yet "How Long, How Long," in the words of blues historian Elijah Wald (writing in the New York Times), "had an effect as revolutionary as Bing Crosby's pop crooning, and for similar reasons." Carr seemed a singer born to the microphone. While country blues singers, performing in the street or in a noisy rural juke joint, projected their voices with powerful, deep-in-the-lungs shouts, Carr, Wald wrote, "sounded like a cool city dude carrying on a conversation with a few close friends."  Read More about the artist at this Website.  Wikipedia