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?
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
366 releases · 64 albums · active 1963–2025
- Production · 536
- Performance · 170
- Other credits · 76
- Engineering · 17
Studios: Echo Sound · Sony Music Studios, New York City · Studio 56 · The Hit Factory
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Coolio
- A Lighter Shade Of Brown
- Lighter Shade Of Brown
- Too Down
- Candyman
- College Boyz
- KMC (5)