Maple Blues Award Nomination!

Sue Foley, Deborah Coleman, and Roxanne Potvin have been nominated for a Maple Blues Award in the "Electric Act of the Year" category for their 2007 Blues Caravan Blues Women Tour!

The Maple Blues Awards is Canada’s national blues awards program. Its goal is to promote blues music across Canada, and to recognize outstanding achievement in the field.

For more information on the Maple Blues Awards please visit the website at www.torontobluessociety.com

New Release Stop The Game

Fifteen years ago, we at JSP Records asked Ms. Coleman to record for us. Since then, she's come a long, long way - with enough Blues Music Award nominations to convince the steeliest heart that she is the real deal. We like to think we've made some progress too.

So, if collaboration was right back then, it could hardly be an easier call now. We certainly never stopped asking.

Deborah has delivered some blistering work in a distinguished career, but we believe this album for JSP (produced by the lady herself) is a summation of a lifetime's effort - she's rarely, if ever, sounded better. - JSP Records

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Time Bomb
Sue Foley
Deborah Coleman
Roxanne Potvin

This is an album to blow away all the sexual politics in the blues, an album to lay to rest any doubts about woman’s place in the contemporary blues field, and above all an album that delivers great songs, superb playing, and blues with a real edge.

Canadian Sue Foley, once an Antone's recording artist is the driving force behind a project that delivers three great performances within the context of a Blues caravan. All three artists play to their potential within an album that is a tribute to the powers of focus and collaboration.

There’s edge blues, ironic humor, colorful sexual metaphors, and great playing as on Deborah’s biting “Don’t Start the Car” and Roxanne’s uncompromising ‘Hitting on Nothing». And when it comes to rocking out, look no further than the title track, which could have graced any era Fab T Birds album.

9 original tracks and two clever covers all take their place in a coherent, contemporary blues project that is consistent throughout and throws up a handful of notable gems including the Roxanna Potvin’s aching ballad “Strong Enough To Hold You”, Deborah Coleman’s cool ‘Motor City’ and Sue’s Dylanesque “So Far”.

There’s even room for a female take of James brown’s funky strut “Talking Loud”, and with the supporting cast of players underpinning the female triumvirate beautifully, Timebomb works in just about every way possible, and should be sought out for immediate purchase.

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2007 Blues Festival Guide Deborah graces the cover of the 2007 Blues Festival Guide. The annual magazine prints and distributes 100,000 copies to various Blues societies, festival promoters, and advertisers around the country who distribute among their members, in their communities, at music stores, coffee shops, clubs, and festivals. Fans get to pick them up for FREE!

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BluesCaravan 2007  Two years ago, Canadian blues artist Sue Foley put together a two-CD compilation for Ruf Records called Blues Guitar Women. The album featured over two dozen female artists playing both traditional and contemporary blues. The third edition of the popular BluesCaravan tour represents a logical next step: This carefully chosen trio of performers reflects the diversity and dedication of a growing generation of female blues players. Fresh from the studio, where they collaborated on a brand new CD with producer Kevin Bowe (Tommy Castro, Paul Westerberg), they now bring you the blues - live - in all its shades and colors. MORE>>

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Blues Divas gets licensing deal! Look for the Series which includes performances of Deborah along with Diva greats such as  Bette Lavette, Mavis Staples and Odetta among others on DVD and CD. Thanks to Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Ground Zero, Morgan Freeman and Robert Mugge for making it happen...

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Deborah featured in
Southern Living Magazine
ARTICLE>>>

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Deborah to perform at B.B. King's 80th Birthday! B.B. King will celebrate his 80th birthday with a multi-artist blues concert that will benefit the B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center . King will headline the July 30 show at the Isle of Capri's Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum and Convention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The benefit concert will include performances by Deborah Coleman, Bobby Blue Bland, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Jody Williams, Dickey Betts and a silent auction, video presentation with messages from notable celebrity friends of King. The evening will be completed with King playing several of his greatest hits in a show-stopping, once-in-a-lifetime jam, accompanied by all of the artists in attendance.

Ms. Coleman will also be speaking at the B.B. King dinner on July 29th.

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Living Blues magazine has nominated Deborah for the female artist of the year 2005!

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Deborah Coleman's contibution to the Blues Diva's series to air on Mississippi Public Broadcasting April 6, 2005. Includes performance and interveiw clips with Oscar winner Morgan Freeman from Ground Zero in Clarksdale, MS.

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Deborah's 2004 release, What About Love, made the top 5 list in Cosmic Debris Magazine MORE>>>

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Deborah headed to Memphis for judging and jamming at the International Blues Challenge 2005.

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Deborah nominated for W.C. Handy Award! December 2004 MORE>>>

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Sittin' In With Deborah Coleman
October 21, 2004 INTERVIEW>>>

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What About Love
Review June 12, 2004 REVIEW>>>

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What About Love
New Release, May 25th!
Deborah Coleman, one of the most talented and prolific female blues artists of the last decade, makes her move to Telarc with the release of her new album, What About Love? 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.

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Deborah Coleman - Blues Divas Video Series Friday, April 23, 2004

Blues Divas in Clarksdale: Mississippi Public Broadcasting will be shooting a multi-part Blues Divas series at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, over the weekend following the Handy Awards. Over that weekend, MPB will be staging and shooting full-length concerts by seven of the most soulful female performers in the history of Blues and R&B. (Mississippi Public Broadcasting will also be documenting the 25th Anniversary W.C. Handy Blues Awards Show on Thursday the 29th for a separate 90-minute TV and possibly home video distribution.) The Ground Zero event will ultimately be viewed as a 7-hour high-definition TV and home video series to be titled Blues Divas. The series is being produced and directed by our favorite Blues director Robert Mugge (Deep Blue, Last of the Mississippi Jukes) and executive produced by Ty Warren of MPB.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30
7pm Renee Austin
10pm Deborah Coleman
Jam Follows

SATURDAY, MAY 1
3pm Bettye Lavette
6pm Irma Thomas
9pm Mavis Staples

SUNDAY, MAY 2
12pm Odetta
3pm Ann Peebles
6pm Denise LaSalle

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Deborah nominated for W.C. Handy Award! April 2004 MORE>>>

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Soul Be It
October 26, 2002 REVIEW>>>

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"Deborah Coleman is unquestionably one of Blues music's most exciting young talents." - USA Today

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"rocks hard." - Chicago Sun-Times

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Vintage Guitar - Livin' On Love August 2001 ARTICLE>>>

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Austin Chronicle - Soft Place to Fall June 2000 ARTICLE>>>

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Blues Revue
Issue 53 - December 1999 ARTICLE>>>

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Living Blues
COVER>>>

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Metro Active - Bound For Glory November 1998 ARTICLE>>>

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Metro Active - Winning the Blues April 1997 ARTICLE>>>

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