Calvin Leavy - Complete Recordings

01. I won't be the last to cry
Calvin Leavy - vocals, guitar, tenor sax
Hosea Leavy – bass, drums
Stuttgart, Ark. 1967

02. Cummins prison farm I
03. Cummins prison farm II
04. Brought you to the city
05. That's where I am
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar 
Ted Seibs – organ
Robert Tanner - guitar 
Hosea Leavy - bass 
Maurice Haygood – drums
Little Rock, Ark. 1968

06. One minute before midnight
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar
band. 
Nashville, Tn. 29 april 1970

07. Give me a love that I can feel
08. Born unlucky
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar 
Paul Brown – organ
B.T. – bass
Maurice Haugood - drums 
Memphis, Tn. 1971

09. It hurts me too
10. I've got troubles (Heart trouble)
11. Goin' to the dogs I & II
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar 
Hosea Leavy – bass
Pat Brown – drums
West Memphis, Ark. june 1973

12. Is it worth?
13. Funky Jam
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar 
Paul Brown - organ 
Leroy Campbell -  guitar 
Hosea Leavy – bass
Pat Brown – drums
West Memphis, Ark. october 1973

14. Big Four
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar 
Paul Brown - organ 
Leroy Campbell -  guitar 
Cyrus Hayes – harnonica
Hosea Leavy – bass
Pat Brown – drums
West Memphis, Ark. november 1973

15. What kind of love
Calvin Leavy – voacs, guitar
Leroy Campbel - guitar 
Aristair Akerson – tenor saxophone
Paul Brown - organ 
Hosea Leavy - bass
PatBrown -  drums 
West Memphis, Ark. 1974

16. Nine pound steel
17. Free from Cummins Prison farm
18. Enjoy being hurt by you
19. Thieves and robbers
20. If life last luck is bound to change
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar
band. 
Memphis, Tn. 1976

21. He walks with me I & II
Calvin Leavy – vocals, guitar
The Cummins Prison Farm Singers

22. It's A Miracle (What Love Can Do)
Calvin Leavy – voacs, guitar
Leroy Campbel - guitar 
Aristair Akerson – tenor saxophone
Paul Brown - organ 
Hosea Leavy - bass
PatBrown -  drums 

23. Nothing But Your Love
Calvin Leavy - vocals, guitar, tenor sax
Hosea Leavy – bass, drums

b. 1942, Scott, Arkansas, USA. Leavy began his musical career in the gospel field at the age of 16, but in 1969 he recorded, singing and playing rhythm guitar, a strong southern blues entitled ‘Cummins Prison Farm’. The song featured an excellent guitar break from Robert Tanner. The recording was released by Calvin C. Brown, owner of Soul Beat Records and became a surprise hit about a year after it was made; it was subsequently picked up by Shelby Singleton Enterprises. Leavy made several more records for Soul Beat (and associate label Acquarian), often in the company of his bass-playing brother Hosea. Soon afterwards, however, he dropped into obscurity and little has been heard of him, although his hit has become a blues standard. Last reports seem to indicate he was playing bass guitar with a gospel group. ---Rovi

Leavy was born in 1940 in the southeast Arkansas city of Stuttgart, and recorded some of his music in the 1960s and 1970s. "Cummins Prison Farm" gained radio play for Leavy in 1970 in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. He followed that with "Free From Cummins Prison Farm." Some other notable songs of Leavy's are "Going to the Dogs" and "If Life Lasts Luck is Bound to Change."

Leavy had been locked up since 1992, when he was convicted of drug-related counts in Little Rock. He began his sentence in the Cummins Unit, but was moved soon afterward to a treatment unit due to his poor health, Tyler said.

Leavy's sentence of life plus 25 years was commuted to 75 years by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee. With the sentence reduction, Leavy would have been eligible for release on June 5, 2011. Gov. Mike Beebe denied a pardon request by Leavy about three years ago. --- groups.google.com

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