Michael Coleman (musician, 1956)

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Michael Coleman (* 24. June 1956 , † 2. November 2014 ) was an American blues - singer , songwriter and guitarist of Chicago Blues . He was selected as one of the top 50 bluesmen in the world by Guitar World magazine . Coleman released five solo albums and worked with James Cotton , Junior Wells and John Primer , among others .

life and career

Michael Coleman began his musical career as a child, playing with his father Cleother "Baldhead Pete" Williams. As a teenager he played with the band "Midnight Sun". He began performing with Aron Burton and Johnny Dollar in the blues clubs in north Chicago. From 1975 he devoted himself full-time to the blues. Coleman toured Europe with Eddy Clearwater in 1979. This made contact with James Cotton, and Coleman stayed in his band for almost ten years. Coleman supported Cotton on his Alligator Records album Live From Chicago Mr Superharp Himself , and played a total of three albums with Cotton.

During the 1980s, Michael Coleman worked with Junior Wells, Jimmy Dawkins and Syl Johnson before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s. His work was not without difficulties when he admitted in his 1987 song Woman Loves a Woman that he was in love with a woman, but she was devoted to another woman ("She's in love with a woman too"). Coleman founded the "Backbreakers" as his background band in 1991. The Vienna label Wolf Records released Coleman's famous album Shake Your Booty in 1995.

His debut album on the American record market was Do Your Thing! in 2000. On this album Coleman offered a mixture of blues, soul and funk , as well as cover versions of pieces that were originally interpreted by Jimmy Reed , Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes . Commentators noted that on this album the outstanding quality of his guitar playing more than compensated for weaknesses in the vocals.

In 2006 Coleman assisted local blues musicians with the recording of the album Blues Brunch at the Mart for the Chicago blues label Delmark Records .

Coleman suffered increasingly from health problems and therefore temporarily interrupted his career. In 2010 he appeared again regularly on the Spring 2010 Chicago Blues Tour .

Coleman died of heart failure in November 2014 at the age of 58.

Discography

Albums

year title Label
1990 Back Breaking Blues (Chicago Blues Sessions Vol. 18) Wolf Records
1995 Self-rising blues SAAR Records
1995 Shake your booty Wolf Records
1997 You Can't Take What I Got SAAR Records
2000 Do your thing! Delmark Records
2002 Chicago Blues Festival 1991 Black & Blue Records
2006 Blues Brunch at the Mart Delmark Records
2008 Harmony Mill Minefield Records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Funky Michael Coleman: Funkiest of the Chicago Bluesmen ( English ) Bluessearchengine.com. July 6, 2009. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bluessearchengine.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e Colin Larkin: Michael Coleman (Blues) Biography ( English ) Oldies.com. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Michael Coleman Dies at 58 ( English ) In: Chicago Blues . Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chicagoblues.com
  4. ↑ a b Jason Birchmeier: Michael Coleman Biography ( English ) AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ Michael Coleman> Credits ( English ) Allmusic . Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ Keith Boykin: Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America , 1st. Edition, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, United States 2005, ISBN 978-0-7867-1704-0 , p. 60.
  7. ↑ Sean Westergaard: Blues Brunch at the Mart at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  8. ↑ Michael Coleman @ Rosa's Lounge ( English ) Chicagobluestour.com. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Coleman, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 2014