"Con Alma de Blues Magazine" Nº7 English Edition Con Alma de Blues Magazine Nº7 /English Edition | Page 42

M
r. Coleman, when was your first
desire to become involved into
the blues music?
When I was a little kid I’ve
always heard Blues in my life. And I moved to
Chicago in 1978 that’s when I really started to play
it all the time with Otis Clay, Buddy Guy, Artie
Bluesboy White and others. And on to B.B., Bobby
Blue Bland, Albert King and everyone
GZ: What advice did BB King give to you? Which
memory of BB makes you smile?
B.B. gave me a million things to know about Blues
and Life. Some of the things he shared with me I’ll
never share with anyone. My dad King Coleman,
was very good friend with B.B. King, Bobby Blue
Bland and James Brown. Very close friends. So
they, B.B. and Bobby treated me like a son. Not
just as an employee, like blood family. I have many
memories to smile about. As well as frown or be
sad about also. Many of them I’ll never share with
you or anyone.
GZ: You express your blues with so much depth
and feeling. What does this wonderful music mean
in your daily life?
GZ: Why do you play Drums & what was your
favorite set back then?
This music represents my culture as a Black Ame-
rican and it’s important for me to share it with the As long as I can remember being alive, as little
world in all its true ways I was taught by my ances- 4year old baby I always wanted to be a drummer.
tors who created it before me. Blues is not a play
Drums chose me I didn’t choose drums. It was
thing, it’s real and it should be appreciated and
a gift to me from God. But sometimes I can feel
respected. If you gonna play the Blues you need to it like a curse. But that’s an