Misty Blues - I'm Too Old For Games: A Live Tribute To Odetta (2024)

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.