James Carr is a legend in the 'deep southern soul', a man who made beautiful records for the Goldwax label in the sixties (most famous single: The Dark End Of The Street), but never really managed to reach star status. Due to excessive alcohol and drug use, his career quickly came to a dead end. In the 1990s he made a series of recordings that were released on the comeback albums Take Me To The
… River (1990) and Soul Survivor (1993) and are now both released on CD as A Man Worth Knowing. Carr still has a beautiful voice on the CD, but the production sounds a bit dated: the fat horns of yesteryear were exchanged for cheap synthesizers. The albums turned out to be just footnotes in the career of the man who died in 2001. (MS)more