
Songs of Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
>11 new tracks from C. Wyze & the Tellers<
Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell lived, worked and played in Indianapolis (Naptown) nearly 100 years ago. Christopher Wyze went looking for them today...and found their footsteps all over town. Come on along for the adventure: here are three episodes to get you started. Scroll down for the sign-up form for the entire video series.
Chris Wyze takes you to the site of the Indiana Ave. Music Shop, the very place where store owner J.E. Guernsey introduced Scrapper Blackwell to Leroy Carr in 1928. And check out what the site looks like today, nearly 100 years after that fateful day in 1928!
Madame C.J. Walker founded a cosmetics company in Indianapolis in the early 1900s. She came to be regarded as America's first woman millionaire. As a tribute to her remarkable life, the Walker Theater was opened to great fanfare in 1927. Just a few years later ,Leroy Carr would grace the stage there. And he sang about it in he and Scrapper's 1929 recording: Naptown Blues. What does "The Walker" look like today? Hit play!
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NAPTOWN BLUES?! It might just be the swingin'-est blues song Leroy and Scrapper ever did, cause they wrote it about their home town! And now...the band puts its new-old sound on the blues mastery of Carr & Blackwell. And heck yes, they recorded it in Naptown! It's the title track from their soon to release album of the same name. Check out the history behind NAPTOWN BLUES right here
Hey, hey...a brand new single from CW & the Tellers. It's the first single from our album, "NAPTOWN BLUES" - the music of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell." Check out the historic significance of the album right here
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"...any music lover
will appreciate this tune."
The Groove, Crossroads Blues Society
From the album: "LIVE in CLARKSDALE"
"Wyze & the Tellers do justice to a familiar warhorse" - Living Blues Magazine

#28 - RMR "Top 200 Blues Albums of 2024"*
Includes #1 Hit Single: Back to Clarksdale*
13 Original Studio Tracks
Recorded: Muscle Shoals & Clarksdale
Available Now - CD & Streaming Platforms
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LIVE show - recorded & filmed at:
>>>JUKE JOINT CHAPEL<<<
Shack Up Inn
Clarksdale, Mississippi
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