Blues Queen Sylvia With Jimmy Dawkins - Midnight Baby (1983) [Reissue 1994]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 331 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 126 MB | Covers - 25 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Evidence Music (ECD 26057-2)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 331 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 126 MB | Covers - 25 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Evidence Music (ECD 26057-2)
The first-ever full length set from Blues Queen Sylvia - both a singer and a bassist, working here in a small combo with Jimmy Dawkins on guitar!
Sylvia Embry began playing piano as a child and sang in church choirs, moving to Memphis at the age of 19. In the 60s she settled in Chicago, where she met and married blues guitarist Johnny Embry, who taught her to play bass guitar. In the 70s she worked for several years with Lefty Dizz and she can be seen playing bass and singing one song with his band in the film Mississippi Delta Blues. She shared the credit with her husband on an album for Razor Records, was part of Alligator Records’ Living Chicago Blues project, and had an album released under the name Blues Queen Sylvia on the German L&R label…