Jaybird Coleman

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Coffe Grinder Bluesd 00:00 Tools
You Heard Me Whistle - Oughta Know My Blow 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues 03:04 Tools
i'm gonna cross the river of jordan some o' these days 00:00 Tools
Coffee Grinder Blues 00:00 Tools
Mistreatin' Mama 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan – Some O' These Days 00:00 Tools
Boll Weevil 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some O'These Days 00:00 Tools
Mean Trouble Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross The River Jordan Some of These Days 00:00 Tools
I’m Gonna Cross the River of Jordan – Some O’ These Days 00:00 Tools
Mill Log Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some of These Days 00:00 Tools
Giving It Away 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some o' These Days - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Trunk Busted - Suitcase Full of Holes 00:00 Tools
Cane Brake Blues 00:00 Tools
River of Jordan 00:00 Tools
My Jelly Blues 00:00 Tools
The Wild Cat Squawl 00:00 Tools
Trunk Busted 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues (Ge 6245, GEX-771-) 00:00 Tools
No More Good Water 'Cause The Pond Is Dry (Ge 6276, GEX-800-) 00:00 Tools
Kickin' Mule Blues 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble 00:00 Tools
Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down 00:00 Tools
You Heard Me Whistle (Oughta Know My Blow) 00:00 Tools
No More Good Water 00:00 Tools
Troubled Bout My Soul 00:00 Tools
Troubled 'Bout My Soul 00:00 Tools
Ah'm Sick and Tired of Tellin' You 00:00 Tools
Bill Wilson 00:00 Tools
Trunk Busted ' Suitcase Full Of Holes (Ge 6245, GEX-772-A) 00:00 Tools
Save Your Money, Let These Women Go 00:00 Tools
German Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross The River O'Jordan, Some O' These Days 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordon Some of These Days 00:00 Tools
Gettin' Ready For Trial 00:00 Tools
Boll Weevil [Jaybird Coleman] 00:00 Tools
No More Good Water, 'Cause The Pond Is Dry 00:00 Tools
Ah'm Sick and Tired of Tellin' You (To Wiggle That Thing) 00:00 Tools
Mistreatin Mama 00:00 Tools
You Heard Me Whistle 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan--Some o' These Days - 27 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues - Jaybird Coleman 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan/Some o' These Days (1927) 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan- Some O' These Days 00:00 Tools
No More Good Water 'Cause The Pond Is Dry 00:00 Tools
Save Your Money - Let These Women Go 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of J 00:00 Tools
Trunk Busted (Suitcase Full of Holes) 00:00 Tools
Jaybird Coleman / I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan 00:00 Tools
Birmingham Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan--Some o' These Days 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan/Some o' These Days 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River O' Jordan, Some O' These Days 00:00 Tools
Ah'm Sick And Tried Of Tellin' You 00:00 Tools
No More Good Water ('Cause the Pond Is Dry) 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some O' These Days, Silvertone 1927 00:00 Tools
Coffe Grinder Bluesd 00:00 Tools
No More Good Water - 'Cause The Pond Is Dry 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some O'These Days - Jayb 00:00 Tools
Getting Ready For Trial 00:00 Tools
Trunk Busted, Suitcase Full Of Holes 00:00 Tools
Boll Weevil[Jaybird Coleman] 00:00 Tools
You Heard Me Whistle - Oughta Know My Blow 00:00 Tools
Trunk Busted ' Suitcase Full Of Holes 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues No.2 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues Number 2 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues #1 00:00 Tools
Man Trouble Blues #2 00:00 Tools
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Burl C. "Jaybird" Coleman (May 20, 1896 – January 28, 1950) was an American country blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer. Born in Gainesville, Alabama, Coleman began performing the blues as an entertainer for American soldiers while serving in the U.S. Army. It was during this period that he was given the nickname "Jaybird" due to his independent manner. In the early 1920s, he teamed with fellow bluesman Big Joe Williams as a performer in the Birmingham Jug Band which toured through the American South. Coleman made his first recordings as a solo artist in 1927. His career as a recording artist lasted only until 1930, after which he performed mostly on street corners throughout Alabama. He died of cancer at the age of 53 in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1950. Burl C. Coleman also went by Rabbit's Foot Williams. He was the son of sharecroppers and one of four children. He was born, raised and worked on a farm, and picked up and learned the harmonica at 12 years of age. He served in the US Army at Ft. McClellan in Anniston, Alabama, and began singing blues and entertaining the troops between 1917 and 1919. He was nicknamed "Jaybird" while in the army due to his independent manner. He returned to Gainesville and worked outside music in 1920. He teamed up with Big Joe Williams in the Birmingham Jug Band to tour with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels working shows throughout the South in 1922 through 1924. He settled in Bessemer to work with his wife, Irene, in his local church, at parties, suppers and picnics through the 1920's. He recorded for the Gennett, Silvertone and Black Patti labels in Birmingham in 1927. He toured as a single entertainer, working club dates throughout the South in 1929, and frequently worked with the Birmingham Jug Band in Bessemer, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas into the 1930's. He recorded with the Birmingham Jug Band on the Okeh label in Atlanta in 1930 and with the Columbia label in Atlanta thereafter. Paul Oliver, in The Story of Blues, describes his music this way: "His technique was close to the field holler with a sung vocal line and then an interpreting response on the harmonica". He worked mostly outside music with occasional work as a single with other jug bands, and sometimes accompanied sister Lizzie Coleman on the streets in the Bessemer and Birmingham areas through the 30's and 40's. He entered the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he died of cancer on June 28, 1950 and is buried in Lincoln Memorial Gardens in Bessemer, Alabama. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.