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Archive Home > 2009 > October > 02 > Sam Carr, 83, acclaimed drummer for blues greats

Sam Carr, 83, acclaimed drummer for blues greats

By Terence McArdle / The Bulletin
October 2, 2009

Sam Carr, a widely acclaimed drummer who worked with blues singers Sonny Boy Williamson and Buddy Guy and led the Delta blues trio the Jelly Roll Kings, died Sept. 21 at a nursing home in Clarksdale, Miss. He had congestive heart failure. He was 83.

Carr and the Jelly Roll Kings were regarded as....

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