EL Recordings

Gild The Black Lily

These 13 songs include originals from Queen Esther as well as covers from Son House, Chip Robinson of The Backsliders, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Eagles, and George Jones, with performances from guitarist Boo Reiners (Demolition String Band), bassist Hilliard Greene (Little Jimmy Scott), organist and Thelonious Monk specialist Gregory Lewis, guitarist Jeff McLaughlin and drummer Shirazette Tinnin.
 

The Other Side

"This album is amazing. And very difficult to classify. Can you imagine a black Lucinda Williams? Not like when she plays the blues torn from her first albums, no. A black Lucinda Williams in pop, rhythm, blues and even gender roots Americana. So it sounds, if you can imagine such a hodgepodge somehow, the latest album from this brutal, original, explosive singer." -- El Descodificador, Vanity Fair (Spain)

"Our admiration for Queen Esther is almost beyond measure." -- Rootstime (Belgium)

What Is Love

"What is Love?" is the new CD release from stunning vocalist, Queen Esther. In this collection of jazz tunes, Queen Esther brings to mind great singers like Sarah Vaughn and Nina Simone but ends up sounding uniquely like Queen Esther. Backed by a stellar band of New York's finest players and produced by Grammy nominated composer, J.C. Hopkins, Queen Esther creates a growling, crooning, and passionately expressive piece of work.

-- Don Sechelski, Muse's Muse

Talkin' Fishbowl Blues

“Not really a blues album, yet aptly tagged as ‘Black Americana,’ Manhattan-via-Austin super-side-woman Queen Esther melds roots. pop and R&B in a way that Lucinda Williams, Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crow never could on their best days.” - Amplifier Magazine

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"Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought." -- E.Y. Harburg


HOOSEGOW

1996

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GHETTO SWING EXTREME

2000

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HARLEM SONG

2002

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NO ESCAPE FROM THE BLUES

2003

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ELEVENED

2004

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UNDERNEATH A BROOKLYN MOON

2005

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BLUES & GRASS: THE 52ND STREET BLUES PROJECT

2006

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CIRCLING FROM ABOVE

2007

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STATE OF THE UNION

2007

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STATE OF THE UNION 2

2007

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THE HARLEM EXPERIMENT

2007

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ELECTRIC WILLIE

2010

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TOUSSAINTVILLE

2013

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ALL OR NOTHING

2013

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OOEY GOOEY CHEWY KA-BLOOEY!

2013

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HIGH FLYIN' BIRD - SINGLE

2015

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Fly - Single

2016

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MEET ME AT MINTONS

2016

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CATERWAULING TOWARDS THE LIGHT

2017

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CARELESS LOVE

2020

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DON'T FENCE ME IN

2020

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