For some, Carr is the greatest soul voice of them all - better than Aretha, Otis, Percy Sledge and all the rest. For the Primer, there is an unevenness to his material which prevents his output from reaching the heights of the greatest, although there were good reasons for the variable quality - throughout his erratic career, Carr was undoubtedly pushed from pillar to post, he wrote none of his own material, he recorded in a variety of different styles, sometimes used different musicians, frequently froze in the studio. That anything ever gelled as often as it did is a miracle, and when it did the results were sublime. Despite all the difficulties, and perhaps in some ways because of them, what Carr produced was some of the deepest and emotional recordings to be found in popular music. 
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