Dennis Coffey – Dennis Coffey

Releasedate: 21-04-2011; Label: Strut
By: Nina Mende

Dennis Coffey is an American guitarist. He was a studio musician for many soul and R&B recordings. Coffey learned to play guitar at the age of thirteen, in the Michigan Upper Peninsula town of Copper City. In 1955, as a fifteen year-old sophomore at Detroit’s Mackenzie High School, Dennis played his first record session – backing Vic Gallon in “I’m Gone”, on the Gondola record label. In the early 1960s he joined The Royaltones who had had hits with “Poor Boy” in 1958 and “Flamingo Express” in 1961. The Royaltones played sessions with other artists including Del Shannon. In 1971, Coffey recorded “Scorpio” which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked at #6 on the Billboard pop chart. The instrumental track featured the former Motown “funk brother”, Bob Babbitt on the bass. On January 8, 1972 Coffey became the first white artist invited to perform on the television show Soul Train, playing “Scorpio”. Now he released his fourteenth album simply called “Dennis Coffey”.

This album has a very nostalgic sound at some points. The eleven tracks include sounds from boogey and groovy up to plain rock. A great mixture of different styles or rather – rock how it changed throughout the years – can be found on this beautiful album. The new Dennis Coffey album takes your mind off the troubles of the daily life and instead takes it away into Dennis Coffey’s world. It strongly reminds of the 70s and 80s but also has some more modern elements in it. This album represents Dennis Coffey’s life and journey through music. So hop on the train and get the new album named simply “Dennis Coffey”.

Tracklist: 01. 7th Galaxy 02. Don’t Knock My Love Feat Fanny Franklin 03. All Your Goodies Are Gone Feat. Mayer Hawthorne 04. I Bet You Feat. Mick Collins Of Dirtbombs And Rachel Nagy 05. Miss Millie Feat. Kings Go Forth 06. Somebody’s Been Sleeping Feat. Lisa Kekaula 07. Plutonius 08. Knockabout 09. Only Good For Conversation Feat. Paolo Nutini 10. Space Traveller 11. Don’t Knock My Love (part 2)

Links:
Dennis Coffey Official