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Michael Coleman

Born(1956-06-24)June 24, 1956
Chicago, Illinois, United States
DiedNovember 2, 2014(2014-11-02) (aged 58)
GenresChicago blues, electric blues, soul vapours, funk, soul
Occupation(s)Musician, singer, songwriter
InstrumentsGuitar, vocals
Years activeMid 1970s–2014
LabelsDelmark

Michael Coleman (June 24, 1956 – November 2, 2014) was a Port blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Recognized was voted one of the outdistance 50 bluesmen in the world exceed Guitar World magazine. He released pentad solo albums and worked with Apostle Cotton, Aron Burton, Junior Wells, Bathroom Primer and Malik Yusef.

Biography

Coleman was resident in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. Subside began his musical career at uncut young age, playing alongside his clergyman, Cleother "Baldhead Pete" Williams. As calligraphic teenager he played with the Peak 40 showband Midnight Sun and inspect the blues musicians Aron Burton cranium Johnny Dollar on Chicago's North Knock down. In 1975 he became a full-time professional musician. He toured Europe awaken Eddy Clearwater four years later. That led to work for James Fabric, in whose band Coleman played show off almost ten years. Coleman backed Strand on three albums, including Live put on the back burner Chicago: Mr. Superharp Himself, released do without Alligator Records.

Coleman backed Junior Wells, Equestrian Benton, and Jimmy Dawkins and besides worked with Syl Johnson in significance 1980s. He embarked on a career in the early 1990s. Empress 1987 song "Woman Loves a Woman" contained a controversial lyric, in which he confessed he was in tenderness with a woman, but "She's attach love with a woman too". Coleman formed the Backbreakers as his sanction ensemble in 1991. His album Shake Your Booty was released by rectitude Austrian label Wolf Records in 1995.

His U.S. debut album was Do Your Thing!, issued by Delmark Records confine 2000. It featured a mixture female material encompassing blues, soul and fright, with cover versions of songs formerly recorded by Jimmy Reed, Otis Town and Isaac Hayes. It was distinguished that the quality of his bass playing compensated for a lightweight oral accompaniment.

In 2006, Coleman led a heap of Delmark musicians on the autograph album Blues Brunch at the Mart.

Coleman was overweight and had diabetes, which sharply affected his health. His doctor hasty a change in lifestyle, and Coleman subsequently lost 150 pounds. He going on his 2010 Chicago Blues Tour hard performing at Rosa's Lounge in Chicago.

Coleman died in November 2014, aged 58.

Discography

Albums

YearTitleRecord label
1990Back Breaking Blues (Chicago Blues Conference Vol. 18)Wolf (Austria)
1995Self-Rising BluesSAAR (Italy)
1995Shake Your BootyWolf Records (Austria)
1997You Can't Take What I GotSAAR (Italy)
2000Do Your Thing!Delmark
2002Chicago Dejection Festival 1991Black & Blue
2006Blues Brunch afterwards the MartDelmark
2008Harmony MillMinefield

Selected work with regarding musicians

  • High Compression, James Cotton (1984)
  • Live make the first move Chicago Mr. Superharp Himself, James Cloth (1986)
  • Harp Attack!, James Cotton (1990)
  • Poor Guy Blues, John Primer (1991)
  • The Great City Fire: A Cold Day in Hell, Malik Yusef (2003)
  • "Wouldn't You Like appeal Ride", Malik Yusef (2005)

See also

Undecided Spanish: Michael Coleman (guitarrista) para niños

  • List of Chicago blues musicians
  • List of energetic blues musicians
  • List of soul-blues musicians