"Sam Carr is as close to royalty as you can get in the Blues Music world. He was born in Friar's Point, Mississippi in 1926, the son of legendary blues man Robert Nighthawk (AKA Robert Lee McCoy).

The Delta Dukes; Sam Carr, John Weston and Dave Riley were the quintessential Mississppi Delta juke joint band.

Sam Carr cut his teeth playing with his father then Sonny Boy Williamson before forming the Jelly Roll Kings with Frank Frost. In 1960 they recorded the classic Boss Man album for Sam Phillips (of Sun Records fame). Their next record was produced by Elvis' guitarist Scotty Moore and yielded a hit with My Back Scratcher.

After Frank Frost's death in 1996, Sam put together a new band called The Delta Dukes and these live recordings are their earliest, recorded at the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland in 2000. This is modern Mississippi Delta Blues at its finest.