Artist: Deborah Coleman
Genre(s):
Pop
Blues
Discography:
What About Love?
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Exile On Blues Street
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Soul be it!
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Livin' on Love
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Soft Place to Fall
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Where Blue Begins
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Although she's a herculean vapors guitar player, ballad maker and vocalist, Deborah Coleman got her start inspiration from an improbable station: seeing the bug out chemical substance group the Monkees on TV. Max Born in Portsmouth, Old Dominion and raised in a armed services syndicate, Coleman took to music easy sufficiency, since her dad played piano, two brothers played guitar, and a sis played guitar and keyboards. She picked up the guitar at days octad after beholding the Monkees and began to play professionally at 15, performing bass voice with a series of Portsmouth-area R&B and stone candy bands. She afterwards switched to guitar later on interview Jimi Jimi Hendrix, likewise pickings to Epistle of James Brown and the Beatles. Coleman began buying records by blues-rock groups like Cream and LED Zeppelin, and easy followed the music's origins back to basic blues. When she was 25, she got married and focussed on rearing her girl piece of music workings day jobs as a nurse and linesman. After her girl grew old enough to pull up stakes situation unequalled, Coleman began to play come out over again, topically at number one. In 1985, she began working with an all-female group, Moxxie. When that group tear up in 1988, she got her blues chops together as constituent of an R&B threesome. After iI old age of touring with the trinity, Coleman did close to woodshedding, eyesight as many blue devils acts as she could inhabit and perusal vapours recordings. Coleman got the break she was looking for for in 1993 when she entered the Charleston (S.C.) Blues Festival's Subject Natural endowment Search. Leadership her possess band, she took number one station. She decent aside lay together her take touring grouping, the Thrillseekers, start a solo occupational group as a bandleader. Coleman used her contest prize of press release studio fourth dimension to book a demonstration and assure a track record vie with New Moon Records taboo of Chapel Mound, N.C. Her debut, Takin' A Stand, was released in 1995 on that label, and she followed it up deuce old age by and by with I Can't Lose, her number 1 album for Subterfuge Pig. Coleman returned in 1998 with Where Blue Begins; Easygoing Space to Fall followed in the spring of 2000. She released her twenty percent component album for Blind Boastfully Livin' on Love in 2001, further consolidating her place as one of the whirligig active blueswomen. Fashioning this assignment passably functionary, Coleman south Korean south Korean won the Orville C. D. Gibson Award for "Topper Megrims Guitar player, Female" in 2001. Too that twelvemonth she was subject case for a W.C. Handy prize for the fourth time. 2002's Psyche Be It was her last phonograph record for Blind Pig as 2004's What Some Love? appeared on Coleman's new position, Telarc.
