Showing posts with label Gina Coleman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gina Coleman. Show all posts

Monday, June 8, 2026

Gina Coleman - Uncrowned: A Tribute To Ida Cox

Album: Uncrowned: A Tribute To Ida Cox
Size: 98,3 MB
Time: 42:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2026
Styles: Blues/Roots
Art: Front

1. Graveyard Dream Blues (4:30)
2. Mail Man Blues (3:50)
3. One Hour Mama (2:43)
4. Worries Mama Blues (3:52)
5. Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (3:02)
6. Bama Bound Blues (4:23)
7. You Got To Swing And Sway (2:11)
8. Four Day Creep (3:26)
9. Hard Times Blues (Feat. Gaye Adegbalola) (4:03)
10. Lawdy Lawdy Blues (3:47)
11. Blues Ain't Nothin' Else But (6:37)

Best known as the driving force behind Misty Blues, Coleman steps into Ida Cox’s formidable catalogue with confidence and purpose. She balances respect for the source material with a clear willingness to reshape it in her own voice. From the opening bars, it is clear she is not interested in preservation for its own sake. Tracks such as Graveyard Dream Blues keep their ghostly, vaudeville edge, while Coleman’s vocal walks the line between theatrical storytelling and raw confession. Subtle guitar textures and a measured rhythm section deepen the atmosphere without overcrowding the song.

Elsewhere, Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues arrives with renewed swagger, Coleman tapping into Cox’s unapologetic independence while bringing her own lived experience to every phrase. One Hour Mama simmers with playful defiance, its double meaning delivered with a knowing smile. Throughout Uncrowned, Coleman’s connection to Cox feels natural rather than studied. Cox, long celebrated as the Uncrowned Queen of the Blues, was a woman who wrote her own rules, and that same spirit runs through this album. Coleman’s voice carries both grit and grace, able to deliver a hard-edged statement one moment and intimate tenderness the next.

The band understands its role perfectly. The instrumentation is purposeful and restrained, with clean expressive guitar lines, steady rhythms, and just enough detail to colour the edges. It is a sound that keeps the songs front and centre. Coleman is not simply covering Ida Cox. She is in conversation with her, bridging a century of blues history with a voice rooted firmly in the present. In doing so, she honours Cox’s legacy while reaffirming the enduring power of women’s voices in the blues. /Colin Campbell, Blues Matters

Personnel: Gina Coleman (vocals); Seth Fleischmann (guitar); Diego Mongue (bass); Rob Tatten (drums); Ronan Chris Murphy (percussion); Aaron Dean (clarinet); Jeff Dudziak (banjo).

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Gina Coleman - Unequivocally Blue

Album: Unequivocally Blue
Size: 90,6 MB
Time: 39:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues/Roots
Art: Front

1. No More To Give (4:36)
2. Days Gone By (3:20)
3. Unequivocally Blue (3:09)
4. Let Them Blues (3:18)
5. Ain't No Giving Tree (2:28)
6. Fly With Me (3:45)
7. How The Blues Feels (3:28)
8. Up Above My Head (3:07)
9. Nothing's In Vain (2:48)
10. Stoop Stomp (3:58)
11. Will My Blues (5:12)

After 25 years of fronting the internationally recognized blues band Misty Blues, Gina Coleman has decided to release her first solo album which highlights the unique timbre of her voice which evokes the visceral emotions of her lyrics. This album was recorded within an hour of Gina returning from her mother’s funeral. She hit an unexpected snow storm coming back from the service, resulting in a 9 hour drive to the studio taking 18 hours. She was up for 40+ hours when her final vocals were recorded.

Mixing engineer, Ronan Chris Murphy, truly captured the enormity of emotions she struggled to contain. Ultimately, Gina wanted her first solo album to showcase a vocal quality/approach she rarely uses on Misty Blues recordings. Little did she know that the circumstances leading to this recording session would result in the personification of "Unequivocally Blue". /Bluestown Music

Personnel: Gina Coleman (vocals, cigarbox guitar); Seth Fleischmann (guitar); Diego Mongue (bass, drums, percussion); Ronan Chris Murphy (tambourine).

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Misty Blues - I'm Too Old For Games: A Live Tribute To Odetta

Size: 123.9 MB
Time: 53:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues, Folk
Art: Front

01. Jim Crow Blues (Live) (4:39)
02. Weepin' Willow Blues (Live) (3:42)
03. Alabama Bound (Live) (3:33)
04. Yonder Come The Blues (Live) (3:00)
05. Special Delivery Blues (Live) (4:51)
06. Homeless Blues (Live) (6:40)
07. Jack O' Diamonds (Live) (4:57)
08. Hold On (Live) (4:48)
09. Keep On Movin' It On (Live) (2:48)
10. 900 Miles (Live) (5:13)
11. Freedom Trilogy (Live) (9:17)

Misty Blues and lead singer, Gina Coleman, celebrate 25 years of composing and performing original blues with hints of jazz, funk, soul and tent revival gospel. Misty Blues has recorded with Charles Neville, Joe Louis Walker, Eric Gales, Justin Johnson, Kat Riggins, Early Times and Matt Cusson. They have also opened for traditional & contemporary blues artists like Tab Benoit, John Primer, Roomful Of Blues, Albert Cummings and Michael Powers.

In 2019 the band became a finalist in the International Blues Challenge. ‘I’m Too Old For Games: A Live Tribute To Odetta’ is the band’s 16th album, their third live album, second tribute album and second acoustic album.

A passion project that has been brewing since the mid-1990s for the lead singer of Misty Blues, Gina Coleman, whose encounter with the legendary Odetta at the Bottomline club in New York City as a guest of Arlo Guthrie left a powerful impression and was a seminal moment in her career.

That inspiration came full circle in the form of a live recorded album in May of 2023, “Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute To Odetta.”. That album took residence as the #1 Traditional Folk Album on the Roots Music Report chart for 24 consecutive weeks. Even with that success, Gina was troubled by the understanding that it was one of the first full album tributes to the Queen of American Folk and was concerned about Odetta’s body of work slipping into obscurity.

Given that concern, Gina and the band decided to embark on a 2nd live tribute album, “I’m Too Old For Games,” which is being released a year after their first tribute album to Odetta, and on the heels of Misty Blues’ most recent original album “Silver Lining” in their 25th Anniversary year.

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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Misty Blues - Dark & Saucy

Size: 104,7 MB
Time: 44:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Funky Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Next Time Is The Last Time (Feat. Gina Coleman) (3:46)
02. Will My Blues (Feat. Gina Coleman) (3:53)
03. Kohn To The Bone (5:00)
04. Fly With Me (Feat. Gina Coleman) (4:51)
05. I Ain't Buying (Feat. Gina Coleman) (3:21)
06. Dirty Laundry Blues (Feat. Gina Coleman) (3:45)
07. Yard Work Blooz (3:58)
08. If I Didn't Have You (Feat. Gina Coleman) (4:29)
09. Junk Yard Man (Feat. Gina Coleman) (4:25)
10. I Don't Sleep (Feat. Gina Coleman) (4:05)
11. Doom Dom Doom (Feat. Gina Coleman) (3:17)

Band founder and lead singer, Gina Coleman, entered the music scene in the early 90’s as the lead singer of the folk/rock group Cole-Connection. It wasn’t until 1999 when she played a gospel singer in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of A Raisin In The Sun that she was steered down the path of blues. The lead actor in the production, Rubin Santiago-Hudson, told Coleman that he felt her voice was well suited to sing classic blues. This sentiment was echoed by actor/singer, Mandy Patinkin, who sought her out after seeing the opening performance of the production. After actress Gwyneth Paltrow commented on her performance, Coleman knew a musical shift was imminent. Guitarist Jason Webster and bassist Bill Patriquin from Cole-Connection were on board and thus began Misty Blues.
With a deficit of blues music in the Berkshires at the time, they felt the musical change would be well received. Misty Blues pays homage to the older blues made popular by the bold and brassy women of its time, while still paying respect to classic male artists of the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. The band hasn’t completely abandoned their musical roots; they frequently perform classic rock and folk tunes infused with a healthy dose of the blues. Over the years, Misty Blues has produced four albums, Electric Juke Joint features classic blues renditions, Roadhouse Revival is a dance-able twist on traditional gospel music, Between The Stacks their completely original album with Charles Neville on sax, and With All Due Respect which pays homage to some of the earliest blues music ever written. The core members are Gina Coleman, Jason Webster, Bill Patriquin, Jeff Dudziak, Benny Kohn, Aaron Dean and Rob Tatten. The band has been fortunate enough to perform with some great musicians in the Berkshires and beyond including Charles Neville, of the legendary Neville Brothers, Matt Berger, and Dave Vittone.

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