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James Carter
50s prison musician
United States • 1925-12-18 – 2003-11-26
James Carter is credited on 279 releases across 64 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
279
Pressings credited
64
Albums
7
Decades active
61
In collections
Biography
James Carter (December 18, 1925 – November 26, 2003) was an American singer. He was born a Mississippi sharecropper and as a young man was several times an inmate of the Mississippi prison system. He was paid $20,000, and credited, for a four-decade-old lead-vocalist performance in a prison work song used in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
279 releases · 64 albums · active 1963–2025
- Production · 469
- Performance · 158
- Other credits · 39
- Engineering · 4
Studios: Echo Sound · Studio 56 · Image Recording Studios · Paramount Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Gangsta's Paradise
1995
Same As It Ever Was
1994
Bulletproof Wallets
2001
Destiny Fulfilled
2004
1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)
1996
This Is How We Do It
1995
Harder / Comp
2004
Tommy Boy Greatest Hits
2003
Enter The Dru
1998
My Soul
1997
It's All The Way Live (Now)
1996
1-800 Suicide
1995
Azz Izz
1995
Wat Eva U Lyke
1993
Victim Of The Ghetto
1992
On A Sunday Afternoon
1991
Bigger Than Life
1990
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Coolio
- A Lighter Shade Of Brown
- Lighter Shade Of Brown
- Too Down
- KMC (5)
- College Boyz
- Montell Jordan
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