James Carter

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? and on its soundtrack.