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DEBORAH
COLEMAN (USA)
Friday, July, 6th, 22:00
Deborah Coleman - guitar, vocals
Michael Griot - bass
Billy McLellan - drums
Govert van der Kolm - keyboard
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Deborah
Coleman is, as USA Today notes, “one of blues music’s
most exciting young talents.” Along with a discography that
now spans a decade, she also gives knockout live performances that
have made her one of the hottest commodities on the contemporary
blues scene. Meticulous and focused in the studio and highly |
charismatic
onstage, Coleman has developed a guitar style that reflects the influences
of Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert Collins and Larry
Carlton. Her vocal inspirations are as often found in the singing
of Chrissie Hynde and Patti Smith as in the recordings of Bessie Smith,
Janis Joplin, Memphis Minnie and Alberta Hunter.
Coleman was born in 1956 in Portsmouth, Va., and raised in a music-loving
military family that lived in San Diego, San Francisco, Bremerton,
Washington, and the Chicago area. With her father playing piano and
her two brothers on guitar, and a sister who plays guitar and keyboards,
Deborah felt natural with an instrument in her hands, picking up a
guitar at age eight.
At 15, she joined a series of rock and R&B bands—first as
a bass player, but later switching to lead guitar after hearing Jimi
Hendrix. Like most musicians of her generation, radio was an important
early influence. “Back then, the formats of the radio stations
were more diverse,” she says. “I remember hearing Joe
Cocker, James Brown, Ray Charles and the Beatles on the same station.”
As her interest in guitar-driven music grew, she plugged into rock
groups such as the Yardbirds, Cream and Led Zeppelin, and followed
the roots of their music back to its origin in the blues. “Jeff
Beck was one of my favorites,” she recalls. “I didn’t
find out until later that they were doing blues tunes and I went to
find the original artists.” A pivotal event for Coleman was
a concert she saw when she was 21 that featured Howlin’ Wolf,
Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker all on the same bill. “I will
never forget that show,” she says. “It started me on a
path to my roots.”
Coleman married at 25 and put her musical career on hold to raise
her daughter, developing a career as an electrician along the way.
“I raised a family, held a nine-to-five job, then I finally
decided to play music full-time,” she recalls. Coleman got the
big break she was looking for in 1993 at a talent search sponsored
by the Charleston Blues Festival. Her band consisted of her brother
and his friend, both of whom only played heavy metal. “We rehearsed
for a week, and I taught them tunes. It was the beginning of my professional
career,” she said. She knocked out the crowd and the judges
with a performance full of fire, took first place in the competition
and hasn’t looked back since.
She immediately put together her own group and began her solo career
as a bandleader and featured performer. The prize from the blues festival
competition was free studio time which she used to record a demo and
secure a record deal with New Moon Records, based in Chapel Hill,
N.C. Her first album, Takin’ a Stand, was released on the New
Moon label in 1994.
After a string of albums on Blind Pig, Coleman joins the Telarc label
with the release of What About Love? in May 2004. Recorded in November
2003 at The Centre for Performing Arts in Unity, Maine, the album
explores the ups and downs of matters of the heart—in a way
that only a highly accomplished blues singer and songwriter like Coleman
can do it.'
“I’ve come to the conclusion that, at least for me, I
have a real need to keep it real and keep it live and spontaneous,”
says Coleman. “That’s what matters to me and I think that’s
what matters most to my audience.”
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