Strange Times

Chicago Blues sensation, Omar Coleman, introduces his debut Color Red single "Strange Times." In 2020, Coleman flew to Denver, CO, headquarters of Color Red, to work on an album produced by Eddie Roberts. With Roberts at the helm as a master of analog recording techniques and capturing vintage tones, much of the composition work was done in the studio that allowed Coleman the space to expand his style into danceable, soulful groove music and craft lyrics to float over them.

“Strange Times” was spurred out of a conversation Coleman and Roberts had at Color Red Studios. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and reflecting on the state of America and his neighborhood and Chicago, the exchange kept running back to the strange times they were living in. He took that stanza and ran with it immediately compiling lyrics he scribbled out on pieces of paper and knocked it out from start to finish.