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Livin’ On Love (Blind Pig)
If this former electrician and nurse from Portsmouth, Va., doesn’t start playing way more electric guitar solos, somebody will have to revoke her official Blues Guitar Slinger license. With each album, she plays down the showy jams and plays up her deep, distinctive voice, which recalls the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde. And while the deep chunga-chunga grooves and slide guitars of “Bending Like a Willow Tree” show Coleman remains firmly rooted in the blues-rock of Cream and late-period Muddy Waters, “Livin’ On Love” is pretty close to a pop record. The dark rocker “Light of Day” and the ballad “Deserted Highway” deserve radio play, and if that happens, Coleman could write a new commercial manual for countless modern blues-guitar talents.