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Blues Vintage:
That's Blackwell as "probably" on piano according to several sources.

MTJ3:
Good point! According to B&GR the accompaniment for these sides by Blackwell is "probably own piano".  I don't know what the other "several sources" are.

The disc labels for both of these sides don't clarify or disambiguate.  They show the artist as Francis Blackwell with composer credit for Blackwell and describe the performance as "vocal with piano accompaniment".  The only artists who recorded at the St. Louis session were Carr, Blackwell and the Elder Oscar Sanders group.  Aurally, the pianist is not Carr and not the more sprightly pianist on the recordings by the Sanders group.  So that makes Blackwell the most likely suspect among those musicians.  Could another pianist have stepped in?  Sure it's possible. If Scrapper would have let him or her do so.

MTJ3:
Johnm, In opening this thread, you wrote, in pertinent part: "As far as I know, all of Brooks Berry's recorded performances come from the album "My Heart Struck Sorrow", on Prestige, for which she was accompanied by Scrapper Blackwell." 

Four songs featuring Brooks appear on the "Live At 1444 Gallery" album.  That album can also be heard on the Document issue DOCD 5275. I think at least one song featuring her singing also appears on one of Art Rosenbaum's field recording collections; I don't have and haven't listened to that.

Stuart:
Stefan Wirz has a page devoted to Brooks Berry:

https://www.wirz.de/music/berrybro.htm

And the recording from Art Rosembaum's collection (Vol. 1) is available for listening at the album's Bandcamp page (#58):

https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/art-of-field-recording-volume-i-fifty-years-of-traditional-american-music-documented-by-art-rosenbaum

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