#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1979	Johnny 'Guitar' Embry and his Blues Kings - Johnny's Bounce (instr) (SS-34004-01A)   @ youtube - I Love The Woman (SS-34004-01B)   @ youtube rec. January 18, 1979 in Chicago, IL; John Embry, voc, g; Riler Robinson, g; Thomas Landis, b; Ollie Moore, dr 7 inch 45 rpm Razor R 5101 [Mark Lefens' label] Delmark DE 832 (2013)   Razor Records ad in Living Blues #42 (1979), p. 43 photographer's name of John Embry photo not given, most likely Eddy Brake Razor Records discography
2	1980	John and Sylvia Embry with the Blues Kings: After Work - Wonder Why   @ youtube - Troubles   @ youtube - Lie To Me   @ youtube - I'm Hurtin   @ youtube - I Found A Love (Rainbow)   @ youtube - After Work   @ youtube - Going To New York   @ youtube - Mustang Sally   @ youtube - Worry Worry #   @ youtube - 62nd St. Luau (instr)   @ youtube rec. February 1980 (and further dates in 1980) at Oddyssey Studios, Chicago, IL; 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 'Iceman' Robinson, rhythm g, # lead g, # voc; 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; photography: Tim Lefens Razor R 5102 (US 1980) Delmark DE 832 (2013) Razor Records discography
3	1980	Delta Blues Festival '79 Napoleon Strickland Fife and Drum Band (Jesse Mae Hemphill, Abe Young) - Shimmy Shawhaha Boyd Rivers - Grow Sick And Die Clyde Maxwell - Alberta Big Joe Williams - Tell Me Mama Harmonica Medley: Napoleon Strickland - Fox Chase - Let's Boogie Hammie Nixon - 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 Delta Blues DBF 79 (US 1980)
4	1980	Mississippi Delta Blues Boyd Rivers   @ youtube - You Got To Take Sick And Die One Of These Days - When I Cross Over Clyde Maxwell   @ youtube - I Left Alabama Hammie Nixon [& Napoleon Strickland]   @ youtube - I'm A Tatta [actually "(Po)Tato"] Digging Man [Nixon] - Fox Hound [Strickland] - Sent My Baby A Brand New Twenty Dollar Bill [Nixon] - Let's Boogie [Strickland] - Rock Me Baby [Nixon] Big Joe Williams   @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go - Don't You Wish Your Woman Was Tailored Made Like Mine [actually "Tailor Made"] - Came Home This Morning Sam Chatmon & Eugene Powell   @ youtube - We Going Round The Mountain - How Long That Evening Train Been Gone Johnny Shines   @ youtube - You Got To Pay The Cost - I Walked All The Way From East St. Louis Today Betty Fikes   @ youtube - Rock Me Baby, Rock Me All Night Long Johnny Shines with Robert Lockwood Jr.   @ youtube - They Call Me Little Wolf Sylvia Embry   @ youtube - I'm Going To New York, Even If I Have To Walk Lefty Dizz - Make Your Move Too Soon filmed September 8, 1979 live at the 1st [*not* 2nd (1980), as the VHS' notes claim!] Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village (outside Greenville), Mississippi; hosted by Willie Dixon; VHS 60 min, colour, mono Kay Jazz KJ 081 (UK 1980)
5	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 Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson - Just Like Mama Said - Look What You Done Queen Sylvia Embry - Going Upstairs   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Blues This Morning   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Tired Of Being Pushed Around   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Please Let Me Stay   @ youtube   @ Spotify 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 1980) notes by Jim O'Neal = Sonet SNTF 842 (UK 1980) = Intercord INT 198.202 (Germany) (=) Alligator ALCD 7704 (1991)
6	1982	American Livin' Blues Festival 1982 Live in Europe DLP track sequence Abb Locke - Honky Tonk °°   @ youtube Smokey Smothers - I Wanna Be With You   @ Spotify Lester Davenport - Be Careful Baby   @ youtube   @ Spotify - I Got A Woman   @ youtube   @ Spotify Lafayette Leake - Fast Boogie (instr)   @ youtube   @ Spotify - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Short Dressed Woman   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Trouble In Mind   @ youtube   @ Spotify Queen Sylvia - Early Time Blues   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Blues And Troubles   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Gonna Find My Baby   @ youtube   @ Spotify Jimmy Dawkins - Dont' Ch'a Wanna Know   @ youtube   @ Spotify Jimmy Dawkins - Sound Of The West Side   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Feel So Bad °°   @ youtube all contributing artists - Paris Jam   @ youtube   @ Spotify °° not re-released on CD CD track sequence 'Big 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 [sic] - 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, Paris, France; Jimmy Dawkins, voc, g; Lester "Maddog" Davenport, voc, hca; Queen Sylvia Embry voc, b; Lafayette Leake, voc, p; Otis '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 (Fr 1982) = EPM FDC 5513 (Fr 1993) = Encore CD 157 742 (Fr 2000) ("Blues Collection")
7	1983	Queen Sylvia - To Bad Baby [sic] (Dawkins) [later "Too Bad Baby"]   @ youtube - I Know I Ain't Number One (Dawkins)   @ youtube rec. April 20, 1983 in Chicago, IL; Sylvia Embry, voc, b; Jimmy Dawkins, g; 2nd g; dr; prod. by Jimmy Dawkins 7 inch 45 rpm Leric 42083 (US 1983) Delmark DE 808 (US 2010)
Queen Sylvia Embry, voc, b with Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Richie Kirch, g; Philip Meeks, rhythm g; 1983
8	1983	Blues Queen Sylvia: Midnight Baby@ youtube (full CD album) - I'm Hurtin'   @ youtube - Life And Troubles   @ youtube - New York Bound   @ youtube - Baby, What Do I Do (5:24)   @ youtube - Midnight Baby   @ youtube - Party   @ youtube - Can't Get Along [aka "The Things That I Used To Do"]   @ youtube - Why Wonder   @ youtube Evidence CD bonus tracks: - You Treat Me So Mean *   @ youtube - I Love You #   @ youtube - Baby, What Do I Do (5:58) #   @ youtube rec. April 4, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios, Chicago Ill.; Queen Sylvia, voc, b; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Richie Krich [sic, actually Rich Kirch], 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) notes by Jean-Claude Arnaudon L+R 42.057 (Germany 1983) = Bellaphon CDLR 72003 (Germany 1994) notes by Larry Hoffman = Evidence CD 26057 (US 1994) "Blues Queen Sylvia with Jimmy Dawkins" L+R Records discography
9	1983	American Folk Blues Festival '83 In Memoriam Muddy Waters Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends - Louisiana Hot Sauce [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.055 session]   @ Spotify "Sparky" Rucker - Black Snake Moan [Spivey 1017]   @ Spotify Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends - Future Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.055 session]   @ Spotify Larry Johnson - Confusion [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.046 session]   @ Spotify Larry Johnson & Nat Riddles - I Got The Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.046 session]   @ Spotify Lonnie Pitchford - Johnny Stole An Apple [L+R LR 42.037]   @ youtube   @ Spotify Louisiana Red & Carey Bell - Delta Fish Market Blues [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.061 session]   @ Spotify Lovie Lee - Mine To Ramble [Mind To Ramble] [previously unissued]   @ Spotify - Lovie Lee's Boogie [previously unissued]   @ Spotify Queen Sylvia's Blues Band - You Treat Me So Mean # [previously unissued, from L+R LR 42.057 session]   @ youtube   @ Spotify # rec. April 4, 1983 at Odyssey Sound Studios, Chicago IL; Queen Sylvia, voc, b; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Richie Krich [actually "Kirch"], 2nd lead g; Phillip Meeks, rhythm g; Tyrone Centuray, dr tracks from other (L+R) LPs, and unissued tracks gatefold LP notes by Horst Lippmann L+R 50.002 (Germany 1983) = Bellaphon CDLR 711525 (Germany 2008) L+R Records discography
10	1984	American Folk Blues Festival Live '83 LP 1: James "Sparky" Rucker - Rock Me Baby ^   @ Spotify - Here Rattler Here °°   @ youtube - Crossroads   @ Spotify - Come On In My Kitchen °°   @ youtube Larry Johnson - Midnight Hour   @ youtube   @ Spotify - That's The Wrong Woman   @ youtube   @ Spotify Louisiana Red & His Chicago Blues Friends - Red's Tribute To Muddy Waters ^ # ||   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Boy From Black Bayou # ||   @ Spotify - Gold Tail Bird # [] °°   @ youtube - She Is Worse # ||   @ Spotify LP 2: Lonnie Pitchford - One-String Boogie ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify - My Baby Walked Away ^   @ Spotify - C.C. Rider   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Why I Sing The Blues °°   @ youtube Louisiana Red & Carey Bell - When I Lay Down To Rest   @ Spotify - Who's Louisiana Red   @ Spotify - Reagan Is For The Rich Man   @ Spotify Lovie Lee & Band - Flip, Flop, And Fly ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Mind To Ramble ^   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Iko-Iko   @ youtube   @ Spotify Queen Sylvia & Friends - I Love You ^ *   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Baby, What Do I Do ^ *   @ youtube   @ Spotify - New York Bound ^ °°   @ youtube °° not on CDLS 42063 rec. October 30, 1983 at Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a.M. ^ rec. November 11, 1983 at Music Hall, Würzburg # Louisiana Red, g, || voc; Jimmy Rogers, g, [] voc; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, p; Queen Sylvia Embry, b; Charles "Honey Boy" Otis, dr * Sylvia Embry, voc, b; Carey Bell, hca; Lovie Lee, p; Jimmy Rogers, Louisiana Red, g; Charles "Honey Boy" Otis, dr liner photo by Norbert Hess gatefold DLP notes by Peter C. Goldsmith L+R 42.063 (Germany 1984) notes by Peter C. Goldsmith (=) L+R CDLS 42063 (Germany 1992) L+R Records discography American Folk Blues Festival discography
11	1986	Big City Blues Jim Brewer Billy Branch Queen Sylvia Embry Son Seals prod. & dir. by St. Clair Bourne for CBS; VHS 28 min; writer & narrator: Clayton Riley; camera: Robert Long; sound: Ray Cymoszinski; production manager: Jim Taylor; editor: Samuel Pollard Rhapsody 8030 PI
12	1988	Hubert Sumlin: Living The Blues Hubert Sumlin Stevie Ray Vaughan Ronnie Earl Cleveland 'Broomman' Jones Mississippi Fife And Drum Band Jesse Mae Hemphill James Cotton Jimmy Rogers Sam Lay Eddie Taylor Queen Sylvia Embry prod. & dir. by Jim Kent & Sumner Burgwyn; color, 75 min; Juke Joint Films DVD Vestapol 13127 (US 1988)
13	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   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Blues This Morning   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Tired Of Being Pushed Around   @ youtube   @ Spotify - Please Let Me Stay   @ youtube   @ Spotify 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 (US 1991)
14	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 [L+R 42.057] - 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 (US 1995)
15	1996	Life in Blues - Feel So Bad - Jimmy Dawkins - Honky Tonk - Abe Locke - Early Time Rock [sic] - Queen Sylvia Embry [Paris Album C 3346/47] - 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 (Fr 1996)
16	2010	Jimmy Dawkins presents the Leric Story Little Johnny Christian - New Life - Luv Somebody Taildragger - So Ezee - My Head Is Bald Queen Sylvia - I Know I Ain't Number One [Leric 42083] - To Bad Baby [Leric 42083] Vance Kelly - Use What You Got - The Jam - Why You Hurt Me So Bad Nora Jean - Untrue Love - Oh My Love Big Mojo Elem - Special Kind Of Love Little Johnny Christian - Ain't Gonna Worry About Tomorrow - I Gotta Sad Feeling Sister Margo & Healing Center - My God Is Real - Peace Be Still notes by David Whiteis Delmark DE 808 (US 2010)
17	2013	John & Sylvia Embry: Troubles - Wonder Why [Razor R 5102] - Troubles [Razor R 5102] - Lie To Me [Razor R 5102] - I'm Hurtin' [Razor R 5102] - I Found A Love/Rainbow [Razor R 5102] - Going To New York [Razor R 5102] - Mustang Sally [Razor R 5102] - Gonna Find My Baby [Razor unissued]   @ youtube - Early Time Blues [Razor unissued]   @ youtube - Razor Sharp [Razor unissued]   @ youtube - Keep Your Hands Off Her [Razor unissued]   @ youtube - Blues This Morning [Razor unissued]   @ youtube - After Work [Razor R 5102] - Worry Worry [Razor R 5102] - 62nd St. Luau [Razor R 5102] - I Love The Woman [Razor R 5101] - Johnny's Bounce [Razor R 5101] photographer: Eddy Brake withdrawn front cover Delmark DE 832 (US 2013)
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Sources / Further reading: - own record collection - Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 165 - Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 148-149 - http://www.richkirch.com/discography.html - http://members.tripod.com/~Twist_Turner/index-31.html - eBay auctions - diverse internet resources thanks to Alan Balfour, 'Blue Escorpio', Bob Eagle, Paul Duvivie, John Crosby, Tom Morris and Steven Salter for additional info / scans Baby Duck Embry [John Embry's brother], Johnny Embry, Ted Harvey & Jimmy Reeves Jr. at Florence's Lounge, 54th & Shields, Chicago, IL, early 1970s source: Blues Unlimited 106 (February/March 1974), p. 21; photographer: Sandy Sutherland   Johnny 'Guitar' Embry on Maxwell Street   (John Embry's not identified in the photos' captions) source: Valerie Wilmer: The Face of Black Music.- New York (Da Capo Press) 2nd paperback printing 1983, no pagination   Queen Sylvia Embry, Johnny Embry and Woody Williams, Chicago 1978 source: Jefferson 59 (Winter 1982); photographer: Erik Lindahl   Johnny Embry in session for Razor Records at Sound Studios, Chicago source: Living Blues # 41 (Nov-Dec 1978), p. 38; photographer: Jim O'Neal   Mississippi Delta Blues Festival 1980 program   Queen Sylvia Embry with Son Seals; Chicago 1981 source: Blues Unlimited 141 (Autumn/Winter 1981), p. 37; photographer: André Hobus   Queen Sylvia Embry with Twist Turner (dr) & John Primer; Toronto 1982 source: Twist Turner's Photo Archives at http://members.tripod.com/~Twist_Turner/index-31.html; photographer: Eddy Brake   'Queen' Sylvia Embry at the American Folk Blues Festival 1983 source: Gatefold of L+R LP 50.002; photographer: Axel Küstner   'Queen' Sylvia Embry source: Marc Norberg: Black, White & Blues.- Zurich, Switzerland (Graphis) 1995, p. 75