In 1962 Pat Cather interviewed Coleman's brother, Joe, and wrote about it in the September 1962 issue of Birmingham, Alabama's Music Memories.
In 1968 this was reprinted in a Blues Unlimited booklet, Backwoods Blues. More recently, 1999, Cather self-published an 8 page pamphlet entitled, Tracking Down a Legend: The “Jaybird” Coleman Story.