The blind Southern soul star was renowned for being as bawdy as he was poignant on songs like "Slip Away" and "Too Weak to Fight" Clarence Carter, the blind Southern soul star whose songs were often as emotionally profound as they were delightfully bawdy, died Thursday, May 14. He was 90. Rodney Hall, president of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Carter frequently recorded, confirmed the news to Rolling Stone after speaking with the family of Candi Staton, the singer and Carter’s ex-wife. A spokesperson for Staton said Carter was recently diagnosed with 4 prostate cancer diagnosis, and was also battling pneumonia and sepsis. Carter was a constant presence on the R&B charts during his late-Sixties and 1970s heyday, and he twice crossed over into the upper echelons of the pop charts. His two Top 10 hits, “Slip Away” and “Patches,” exemplified his ability to navigate the raw and ribald.…