Monday, May 06, 1996

Alice Leslie Carter

Alice Leslie Carter
United States
Classic female blues

Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s. Her best-known tracks are "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues". She was a contemporary of the better-known recording artists Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music.
She is not to be confused with Alice Carter, another blues singer, who recorded four songs in 1923.


appeared on:
Female Blues Singers Vol. 4 C (1996) 1921-1930