Big Smokey SmothersOtis "Big Smokey" Smothersb. March 14 (or 21), 1929 in Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippid. July 23, 1993 at home in Chicago, Illinoisburied at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinoisdiscography
Chess 1632 (US 8/1956)
Howling Wolf discography
Chess 1648 (US 2/1957)
Chess 1668 (US 7/1957)
Chess 1744 (US 11/1959)
Chess 1750
Chess 1762
Howling Wolf discographyHubert Sumlin discography
Federal 45-12385 (US October 1960)
Federal 45-12395 (US November 1960)
Federal 45-12405 (US 1961)
Federal 45-12420 (US 1961)
Federal 45-12441 (US December 1961)
Federal 45-12466 (US July 1962)
Little Boyd discography
Federal 45-12488 (US April 1963)
Federal 45-12503 (US November 1963)
La Salle unissued
King LP 779 (US 1962) "Smokey Smothers sings the backporch blues"
= Polydor INT 623 239 (Germany 1966) (rechanneled stereo) "The Driving Blues of Smokey Smothers"
(=) Krazy Kat KK 7406 (UK 1982) "Smokey Smothers: The Complete Sessions 1960/1962"
(original) notes by Seymore Stein (=) Official CD 779 ("Denmark" 2000) "Smokey Smothers sings the backporch blues"
notes by Bill Dahl, Dave Sax & John Tefteller (=) Ace CDCHD 858 (UK 2002) "Smokey Smothers sings the backporch blues"
Krazy Kat Records discographyLittle Boyd discography
Gamma 104 (b-side = GA103B)
Gamma 104 (b-side = GA104B)
notes on four leaflets (December 1970) by Mike A. Leadbitter inner gatefold with Walter Horton photo by Marcel Imsand Sunnyland KS 101 (UK 1970)
Sunnyland Records discography
2 LP set Rarities no #, no print on labels (NL 1972)
Sundown CG 709-01 (NL 1979)
= Sundown CG 709-01 (NL 1985/86 ?)
Sundown Records discography
Rooster Blues R48
gatefold DLP Paris Album C 3346/47 (Fr 1982)
= EPM FDC 5513 (Fr 1993)
= Encore CD 157 742 (Fr 2000) ("Blues Collection")
Sylvia & Johnny Embry discography
notes by Pete Crawford Red Beans RB-009 (US 1986)
= SteepleChase SCB-9009 (Denmark 1986)
Wolf 120.848 (Austria 1987)
notes by JoeAnn Larson & Richard Shavzin (Boston Blackie) and Sam Burckhardt (Smokey Smothers) Wolf CD 120.847 (Austria 1998)
= Wolf CD 120.847 (Austria 2013) "Boston Blackie & Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers: ABC Blues"
Boston Blackie discography
notes (1998) by Ray Topping Ace CDCHD 717 (UK 1999)
Willie Mabon discographyEddie Clearwater discography
Paul Barry CD 98576 86412
thanks to Alan Balfour, Scott Dirks, Byron Foulger, Kirk Whiting, Hannes Folterbauer, Steve Cushing, Max Hoeffner, Tano Ro, Gilbert Guyonnet, Don Deering and Tom Morris (Illinois Slim) for additional info / scans
Brothers Otis "Big Smokey" and Albert Abraham "Abe" "Little Smokey" Smothers, 1977source: Front cover of Living Blues # 37 (Mar/Apr 1978); photographer: Jim O'Neal Big Smokey Smotherssource: Front cover of Red Beans RB-009 (US 1986); photographer: James Fraher Big Smokey Smothers and Floyd Jones at 3rd Annual Chicago Blues Festival, 6-8 June, 1986source: Juke Blues #6 (Autumn 1986), p. 21; photographer: Brian Baumgartner
Big Smokey Smotherssource: Front cover of Red Beans RB-009 (US 1986); photographer: James Fraher
Big Smokey Smothers and Floyd Jones at 3rd Annual Chicago Blues Festival, 6-8 June, 1986source: Juke Blues #6 (Autumn 1986), p. 21; photographer: Brian Baumgartner