⬇️ COLIN JAMES ⬇️
(Colin James Munn)
DISCOGRAPHY 1988-2021 (23CD)
BIOGRAPHY
James was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He got his break opening
for Stevie Ray Vaughan in Regina in 1984. When the scheduled opening act
did not show, he only had a few hours' notice to put together a set of
blues standards with members from the local Regina band "Flying Colours".
Vaughan invited James to perform with him during the encore, and then join
his tour as a permanent opening act.
He and his band The Hoodoo Men opened for Vaughan for several tour dates
in the United States. According to legend, Vaughan himself suggested the
stage name "Colin James", because when announced over arena P.A. systems,
"Munn" sounded like "Mud". James also played guitar on Richard Marx's song
"Thunder and Lightning".
In 1988, following his association with Vaughan, James released his
self-titled debut album, which yielded several international hit singles,
as did the follow up Sudden Stop. He presaged the mid-1990s swing music
revival with his Colin James and the Little Big Band project, which
released a successful first CD in 1993, with a follow-up gold record in
1998, a third disc 2006, and a Christmas album in 2007.
James's worldwide popularity waned somewhat in the late 1990s, but he
continued to release albums in rock, blues, and acoustic styles. In 2005,
he gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to
his home province of Saskatchewan.
James' backing band frequently includes members of the Vancouver-based
band Odds, and he has co-written songs with Odds singer-guitarist Craig
Northey. In February 2005, James guest-starred in an episode of the
television program Corner Gas, a Canadian sitcom based in rural
Saskatchewan.
In 2007, James' album Limelight received a Gold record for sales in
Canada. In January 2008, James received three Toronto Blues Society Maple
Blues Awards: "Entertainer of the Year", "Electric Act of the Year" and
"Recording of the Year" for Colin James & The Little Big Band 3.
In 2009, James recorded the album Rooftops and Satellites with, among
others, former Junkhouse front man Tom Wilson. The album was co-produced,
engineered and mixed by Mike Fraser, at The Warehouse Studio in
Vancouver.
James' 2016 album Blue Highways spent 10 weeks at No.1 on the Roots Music
Report's Blues Chart following its debut, and appeared in Living Blues
magazine's Top 50 albums of that year. Its follow-up, Miles To Go, was
released in September 2018, to equal acclaim entering the top 10 blues
charts in Canada, USA, UK and Australia.
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