Michael Coleman's Blues Band - Back Breaking Blues (1990/2015)

Michael Coleman (born June 24, 1956) is an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was voted one of the top 50 bluesmen in the world by Guitar World magazine. Coleman has released five solo albums to date, and variously worked with James Cotton, Aron Burton, Junior Wells, John Primer and Malik Yusef. Coleman was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He began his musical career at a young age, playing alongside his father, Cleother "Baldhead Pete" Williams. As a teenager he played with the Top 40 showband, Midnight Sun, and played the blues with Aron Burton and Johnny Dollar in Chicago's North Side. In 1975 he became a full-time professional musician, and toured Europe with Eddy Clearwater four years later. This led him directly to work for James Cotton, and Coleman remained in his band for a period of almost ten years. Coleman backed Cotton on his Alligator Records album, Live From Chicago Mr Superharp Himself, and in total completed three albums with Cotton. During the 1980s, Coleman backed Junior Wells, Buster Benton, and Jimmy Dawkins, and also worked with Syl Johnson, before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s