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fave it Acoustic Blues | Delta Style
12 tracks | 40 minutes
Released Jun 2006
on Andy Coats Music
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 That's What they Call the Blues lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 That's What they Call the Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 That's What they Call the Blues
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Compelling acoustic blues and original songwriting
Bio / Background
ANDY COATS: BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in North Carolina, Andy Coats has been involved in music since his early teens, when he sang and played in a hard rock band and later a progressive rock band.
From there he worked his way back to the genres in which so much rock is rooted—the blues and other “roots” based music. "My passion for this sort of music began really came to a head when I was about 25 years of age. I was living in Southern California, struggling through graduate school, and it was then that the magic of the blues masters fully hit me. I dove head first into Robert Johnson's material, listening to it daily.”
“There was also this great weekend radio show, ‘Nothin’ But the Blues’, hosted by Gary ‘The Wagman’ Wagner, coming out of Cal State Long Beach. I have fond memories of listening all day, picking up my guitar, and jamming along. This helped me get through some tough years ... .
↓ more ↓As a student I made almost no money, and I felt my career prospects were pretty bleak--there were very few teaching jobs available, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy is not exactly the most marketable degree ... . This is how I came to identify with the blues, although I will be the first to admit that the kind of problems I had were nowhere near as immediate and urgent as those of the classic blues singers."
After completing his degree in 1999, Andy was able to focus all of his attention on his music. He has released three independent CDs – see the discography page for details – and appeared on The United State of Americana, a compilation put out by Shut Eye Records in 2004.
He has performed live on the radio at NPR stations in the Midwest and in North Carolina, and has played at a wide variety of events, including the Iowa State Fair, the Court Ave. Blues Fest (Des Moines, IA), A Ride Across America (Santa Monica, CA), and the Tsunami Blues Benefit (Long Beach, CA). Andy has played at venues across the country, including the premier blues clubs in the Los Angeles area: B.B. Kings, the Blue Café, and Martini Blues; and has enjoyed the honor of opening for national-level acts such as Eric Sardinas, and W.C. Handy Award winners Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers.
In 2003 and 2004, Andy was named one of the top blues acts in Southern California
by the Southern California Blues Society, when he was selected to compete in the regional phase of the International Blues Challenge.
The most recent chapter of his career has brought Andy back to the place he was born: the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Now based in Raleigh, he has begun performing at places big and small, doing as much as he can to keep the blues alive. In addition to writing and recording a new batch of songs, Andy has begun delving more into the so-called “Piedmont” blues and working out the styles of such titans as Blind Boy Fuller and the Rev. Gary Davis. “It’s an amazing technique,” says Andy, “much like the style of piano players … in some ways, I feel like it’s already a part of me since I grew up here.”
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