Barbara Carr was born in St Louis, Missouri, United States, and, like many blues musicians, she got her start in church, performing with her two sisters.
Her break came when a brother-in-law working in Gaslight Square said bandleader Oliver Sain was looking for a female vocalist to replace Fontella Bass.
She continued to record intermittently and performed with Sain until 1972, when she temporarily retired to raise a family.
[3] After returning to perform with local bands around St Louis, she again began recording.
[3] In 1996, Carr signed with Ecko Records,[3] which produced such songs as "Footprints on the Ceiling", "The Bo Hawg Grind", "If You Can't Cut The Mustard", "The Right Kind Of Love", and "Bone Me Like You Own Me".