Mr. Scrapper's Blues

by Scrapper Blackwell

Mr. Scrapper's Blues cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1962
  • Label: Bluesville
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:56
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during his brief rediscovery prior to his tragic murder, 'Mr. Scrapper's Blues' captures the surviving half of the legendary pre-war duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell. His intricate, single-note acoustic picking style remains sharp and intensely evocative despite decades of obscurity. The record provides a poignant, final glimpse at one of the foundational architects of the urban blues guitar vocabulary.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog (4:48)
  2. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (5:02)
  3. "A" Blues (3:57)
  4. Little Girl Blues (5:15)
  5. George Street Blues (4:26)
  6. Blues Before Sunrise (5:11)
  7. Little Boy Blue (3:10)
  8. "E" Blues (3:55)
  9. Shady Lane (5:29)
  10. Penal Farm Blues (4:38)

Credits

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