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This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.Stefan Wirz www.wirz.de |
Queen Sylvia Embry 45 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
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| | 1979 | Johnny 'Guitar' Embry and his Blues Kings
- Johnny's Bounce (SS-34004-01A)
- I Love The Woman (SS-34004-01B)
| 7 inch 45 rpm
Razor R 5101 |
| 1 | 1980 | John and Sylvia Embry with the Blues Kings:
After Work
- Wonder Why
- Troubles
- Lie To Me
- I'm Hurtin
- I Found A Love (Rainbow)
- After Work
- Going To New York
- Mustang Sally
- Worry Worry
- 62nd St. Luau
rec. at Oddyssey Studios, Chicago; Ed Cody, engineer; live tracks rec. at the Bold One Lounge, 111 W.111th, Chicago. Kurt Schauer & Dave Preis, engineers; John Embry, lead g; Sylvia Embry, b, voc; Riler Robinson, rhythm g; Woody Williams, dr, voc; + (on some tracks) Dino Alvarez, dr; Robert Perkins, b; Ollie Moore, dr; Jerry Porter, dr; prod. by Mark Lefens and Michael Landers | 
Razor R 5102 |
| 2 | 1980 | Delta Blues Festival '79
Napoleon Strickland Fife and Drum Band (Jesse Mae Hemphill, Abe Young)
- Shimmy Shawhaha
Boyd Rivers
- Grow Sick And Die (de.youtube.com)
Clyde Maxwell
- Alberta
Big Joe Williams
- Tell Me Mama
Harmonica Medley:
Napoleon Strickland with Hammie Nixon
- Fox Chase
- Let's Boogie
- Rock Me Mama
- Mule To Ride
Sam Chatmon & Eugene Powell
- How Long
Johnny Shines
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Sam Myers
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright #
Sylvia Embry
- Goin' To New York
Betty Fikes & Johnny Shines Band
- Rock Me Baby
Lefty Dizz
- You Might Have Made Your Move Too Soon
rec. September 8, 1979 in Freedom Village (outside Greenville), Mississippi, by Worth Long in cooperation with Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE)
# Sam Myers, voc, hca; Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Lockwood, gs; Sylvia Embry, b; Woody Williams, dr
 soundtrack of film "Mississippi Delta Blues" 60 min, colour, mono, 1980; filmed live at the 2nd Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village, hosted by Willie Dixon (Kay Jazz KJ 081)
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Delta Blues DBF 79
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| 3 | 1980 | Living Chicago Blues Vol. 6
Detroit Junior
- If I Hadn't Been High
- Some Nerve
- Somebody To Shack
- I Got Money
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
- Somebody Have Mercy
- Got To Have Money
- Just Like Mama Said
- Look What You Done
Queen Sylvia Embry
- Going Upstairs
- Blues This Morning
- Tired Of Being Pushed Around
- Please Let Me Stay
Personnel:
Detroit Junior: Detroit Junior (piano, vocals), L.C. Roby (guitar), Willie Young (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Jewell (tenor saxophone), Marilyn Love (bass) and Odie Payne Jr. (drums).
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson: Luther Johnson Jr. (guitar, vocals), Joe Berson (harmonica), Brian Bisesi (guitar), Joe Wille "Pinetop" Perkins (piano), Calvin Jones (bass) and Willie Smith (drums).
Queen Sylvia Embry: Sylvia Embry (bass, vocals), Buddy Scott (guitar), Sam Good (guitar), Ralph Lapetina (keyboards) and Dino Alvarez (drums)
prod by Bruce Iglauer | notes by Jim O'Neal
Alligator AL 7706 (US)
= Sonet SNTF 842 (UK)
= Intercord INT 198.202 (D)(=) Alligator ALCD 7704 (1991) |
| 4 | 1982 | American Livin' Blues Festival 1982
Live in Europe
DLP track sequence
Abb Locke
- Honky Tonk
Smokey Smothers
- I Wanna Be With You
Lester Davenport
- Be Careful Baby
- I Got A Woman
Lafayette Leake
- Fast Boogie
- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
- Short Dressed Woman
- Trouble In Mind
Queen Sylvia
- Early Time Rock
- Blues And Troubles
- Gonna Find My Baby
Jimmy Dawkins
- Dont' Ch'a Wanna Know
Jimmy Dawkins
- Sound Of The West Side
- Feel So Bad
all contributing artists
- Paris Jam
CD track sequence
'Little Smokey' Smothers
- I Wanna Be With You
Lester Davenport
- Be Careful Baby
- I Got A Woman
Lafayette Leake
- Fast Boogie
- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
- Short Dressed Woman
- Trouble In Mind
Queen Sylvia
- Early Time Rock
- Blues And Troubles
- Gonna Find My Baby
Jimmy Dawkins
- Dont' Ch'a Wanna Know
- Sound Of The West Side
all contributing artists
- Paris Jam
rec. May 25, 1982 live at La Maison des Arts Créteil, France; Jimmy Dawkins, voc, g; Lester "Maddog" Davenport, voc, hca; Queen Sylvia Embry - voc, b; Lafayette Leake, voc, p; Big Smokey Smothers, voc, g; Abb Locke, sax; Rich Kirch, g; Sylvester Boines, b; Jim Schutte, dr; prod. by Larry Martin & Sylvain Mustaki | DLP
Paris Album C 3346/47 
= EPM FDC 5513 (1993)
= Encore CD 157 742
(2000) ("Blues Collection")
more info |
| 5 | 1983 | Queen Sylvia
- To Bad Baby [sic] (Dawkins)
- I Know I Ain't Number One (Dawkins)
prod. by Jimmy Dawkins | 7 inch 45 rpm
Leric 42083 |
| 6 | 1983 | Blues Queen Sylvia: Midnight Baby
- I'm Hurtin'
- Life And Troubles
- New York Bound
- Baby, What Do I Do
- Midnight Baby
- Party
- Can't Get Along
- Why Wonder
CD (Evidence) bonus tracks:
- You Treat Me So Mean *
- I Love You #
- Baby, What Do I Do #
rec. April 4, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios, Chicago Ill.; Queen Sylvia, voc, b; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Richie Krich [sic], 2nd lead g; Phillip Meeks, rhythm g; Tyrone Centuray, dr; prod. by Horst Lippmann
* previously issued on L+R 50.002 (1983)
# rec. November 11, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg, Germany; Sylvia Embry, voc, b; Jimmy Rogers, g; Louisiana Red, slide g; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, keyboards; Charles "Honeyboy" Otis, dr; previously issued on L+R 42.063 (1984) | 
L+R 42.057= L+R CDLR 72003 
= Evidence CD 26057 (1994)
"Blues Queen Sylvia
with Jimmy Dawkins"
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| 7 | 1983 | American Folk Blues Festival '83
In Memoriam Muddy Waters
Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Louisiana Hot Sauce
"Sparky" Rucker
- Black Snake Moan
Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends
- Future Blues
Larry Johnson
- Confusion
Larry Johnson & Nat Riddles
- I Got The Blues
Lonnie Pitchford
- Johnny Stole An Apple
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- Delta Fish Market Blues
Lovie Lee
- Mine To Ramble
- Lovie Lee's Boogie
Queen Sylvia's Blues Band
- You Treat Me So Mean #
# rec. April 4, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios, Chicago Ill.; Queen Sylvia, voc, b; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Richie Krich [sic], 2nd lead g; Phillip Meeks, rhythm g; Tyrone Centuray, dr
"un-issued title from the album 'Midnight Baby' LR 42.057"
 
 
  | tracks from other (L+R) LPs,
and unissued tracks
L+R 50.002
 L + R discography
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| 8 | 1984 | American Folk Blues Festival Live '83
James "Sparky" Rucker
- Rock Me Baby
- Here Rattler Here *
- Crossroads
- Come On In My Kitchen *
Larry Johnson
- Midnight Hour
- That's The Wrong Woman
Louisiana Red
- Red's Tribute To Muddy Waters
- Boy From Black Bayou
- Gold Tail Bird *
- She Is Worse
Lonnie Pitchford
- One-String Boogie
- My Baby Walked Away
- C.C. Rider
- Why I Sing The Blues *
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- When I Lay Down To Rest
- Who's Louisiana Red
- Reagan Is For The Rich Man
Lovie Lee & Band
- Flip, Flop, And Fly
- Mind To Ramble
- Iko-Iko
Queen Sylvia Embry & Friends
- I Love You
- Baby, What Do I Do
- New York Bound *
* not on CD
rec. October 30th, 1983, at the Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and November 11th, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg
| DLP
L+R 42.063
(=) L+R CDLS 42063 (1992)
L + R discography |
| 9 | 1991 | Living Chicago Blues Vol. 4
Detroit Junior
- If I Hadn't Been High
- Some Nerve
- Somebody To Shack
- I Got Money
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
- Somebody Have Mercy
- Got To Have Money
- Just Like Mama Said
- Look What You Done
Queen Sylvia Embry
- Going Upstairs
- Blues This Morning
- Tired Of Being Pushed Around
- Please Let Me Stay
Big Leon Brooks
- Blues For A Real Man
- Thirteen Years In Prison
- Country Boy
- My Life Ain't The Same
Andrew Brown
- I Got News For You
- Morning, Noon And Night
- Two Years
Personnel:
Detroit Junior: Detroit Junior (piano, vocals), L.C. Roby (guitar), Willie Young (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Jewell (tenor saxophone), Marilyn Love (bass) and Odie Payne Jr. (drums).
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson: Luther Johnson Jr. (guitar, vocals), Joe Berson (harmonica), Brian Bisesi (guitar), Joe Wille "Pinetop" Perkins (piano), Calvin Jones (bass) and Willie Smith (drums).
Queen Sylvia Embry: Sylvia Embry (bass, vocals), Buddy Scott (guitar), Sam Good (guitar), Ralph Lapetina (keyboards) and Dino Alvarez (drums).
Big Leon Brooks' Blues Harp Band: Big Leon Brooks (harmonica, vocals), Louis Myers (guitar), and Joe Willie "Pintop" Perkins (piano), Freddie DIxon (bass) and Odie Payne Jr. (drums).
Andrew Brown: Andrew Brown (guitar, vocals), Otis Webster (guitar), Roland Brown (keyboards), Al Lewis (trumpet), Charles Smith (tenor sax), Spurling Banks (bass) and Casey Joney (drums). | Alligator AL 7706 (1980) 
Alligator ALCD 7704
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| 10 | 1995 | Evidence Blues Sampler Four
- Think - Sonny Rhodes
- Something Funny Is Going On - Cash McCall
- Little Red Rooster - Willie Mabon
- Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd / Buddy Guy
- New York Bound - Blues Queen Sylvia / Jimmy Dawkins
- Goin' to Chicago - Big Bill Broonzy
- Sweet Bitter Blues - Cephas & Wiggins
- My Babe - Hubert Sumlin / Willie Dixon / Sunnyland Slim
- Sweet Little Angel - Billy Branch & The S.O.B.s
- I Done Got Over It - Billy Boy Arnold
- Sun Is Going Down, The - Sunnyland Slim Blues Band
- Country Playboy - Louisiana Red
- Welfare Line - Jimmy Dawkins / Chicago Beau/"Blue Ice" Bragason
- Soul Brother - Eddie Taylor Blues Band
- Goin' on Main Street - Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band
- I Had a Dream - Blind John Davis | 
Evidence CD 26058 |
| 11 | 1996 | Life in Blues
- Feel So Bad - Jimmy Dawkins
- Honky Tonk - Abe Locke
- Early Time Rock - Queen Sylvia Embry
- Shake It Up - Clifton Chenier
- This Train (Bound For Glory) - Big Bill Broonzy
- Mean Old World - Champion Jack Dupree
- St. Louis Blues - Mickey Baker
- I Say Yeah - Memphis Slim
- Keep On Shakin' It - Booker T. Laury
- I Got A Woman - Lester Davenport
- Long Gone Like a Turkey Through The Corn - Lightnin' Hopkins | 
EPM CD BC157362 |
Additional information appreciated !!!
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- http://www.richkirch.com/discography.html
- http://members.tripod.com/~Twist_Turner/index-31.html
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
source of left column picture: Front cover of L+R 42.057
thanks to 'Blue Escorpio' for label scan of Razor R 5101B
Queen Sylvia Embry with Twist Turner (dr) & John Primer (g); Toronto 1982; photographer: Eddy B
source: Twist Turner's Photo Archives at http://members.tripod.com/~Twist_Turner/index-31.html
source: Marc Norberg: Black, White & Blues.- Zurich, Switzerland (Graphis) 1995, p. 75
Johnny Embry in session for Razor Records at Sound Studios, Chicago
source: Living Blues # 41 (Nov-Dec 1978), p. 38; photographer: Jim O'Neal
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