Deborah Coleman - Soft Place To Fall / Livin' On Love

Album: Soft Place To Fall
Size: 102,8 MB
Time: 43:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Look What You Do To Me (3:40)
02. Confused (3:29)
03. Soft Place To Fall (4:23)
04. Don't Lie To Me (3:41)
05. If You Love Me Like You Say (3:38)
06. Another Hoping Fool (4:15)
07. I'm A Woman (4:51)
08. So Damn Easy (4:10)
09. Nothing To Do With Love (3:34)
10. What Goes Around (4:14)
11. The Day It Comes (3:54)

For her third recording, Coleman continues to show the promise that her previous CDs gave a glimpse of. While still not as much of a blues devotee as she could be, she gives all indications of being a solid performer, a steadily improving vocalist, and a decent guitarist. She wrote three of the 11 cuts here, and they're the best of the lot. "What Goes Around" is a good 12-bar tune about cheatin' and messin' around; "Another Hoping Fool" is a slinky blues number about waiting by the telephone for that reassuring late-night call; and the title track sounds much like a Dire Straits tune, especially in the spare guitar playing of Coleman and Jack Holder. Coleman interprets Little Johnny Taylor's "If You Love Me Like You Say" in a cool funk mode, jumps into the direct blues of the adapted classic "I'm a Woman," and rocks the Jerry Williams number "Nothin' to Do With Love," which has all the potential to be a legitimate hit. On the boogie beat of "Don't Lie to Me" and the hard swing of the getting-back-to-love statement "So Damn Easy," Coleman changes up a bit to a more authentic blues style. She rocks on the simple "Look What You Do to Me," rocks even harder for "Confused," and goes into a more Southern-rock area on "The Day It Comes." She also uses pop/R&B-ish background vocals on "Look What You Do," "The Day," and "So Damn Easy." Deborah Coleman is still on the trail of eclipsing Sue Foley, Debbie Davies, and Susan Tedeschi to take her place as the high priestess of contemporary blues. While not there yet, she has all the tools and musical ability to reach that lofty perch. ~Review by Michael G. Nastos

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Soft Place To Fall

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Album: Livin' On Love
Size: 100,8 MB
Time: 42:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Livin' On Love (3:49)
02. You're With Me (3:32)
03. Light Of Day (3:42)
04. Memory Lane (4:08)
05. Crazy (3:54)
06. Bending Like A Willow Tree (3:51)
07. Happy When You're Unhappy (4:32)
08. Don't Talk In My Sleep (4:01)
09. Heaven's Got The Blues (3:32)
10. Torn In Two (3:32)
11. Deserted Highway (4:22)

Deborah Coleman detected a void in the music stratum and successfully filled it: A lead guitarist/vocalist playing the in the male dominated world of blues-rock. Others like Bonnie Raitt and Marie Muldaur have contributed to varying degrees in the contemporary blues scene (and other styles) but Coleman with her string of five consistently strong albums in only seven years demonstrates that she is serious about her craft and knows her calling as a blueswoman. Livin' on Love combines slow-grind blues pieces, R&B and gutsy rockers with a soulful voice and exemplary guitar playing proving that she's here to stay, not merely passing through. ~Review by Dave Sleger

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Livin' On Love

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