May 9, 2019. Shemekia Copeland won two Blues Music Awards: Contemporary Blues Album and Album of the Year, both for America’s Child. Her eighth album, produced by Will Kimbrough and including guests like John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris, J.D. Wilkes, Steve Cropper and others, was released in August, 2018.
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Two Blues Music Awards for Shemekia’s “America’s Child”
Shemekia Copeland won two Blues Music Awards this Thursday night in Memphis: Contemporary Blues Album and Album of the Year, both for America’s Child, released in August 2018. Shemekia was…
Chicago Tribune: “The wit and humor of her collaboration”
…No track commands more attention, however, than “The Wine Talkin’,” in which veteran Cash Box Kings singer Wilson duets with the greatest female blues vocalist working today, Chicagoan Shemekia Copeland….
“As known for her social stances as she is for her deep, mature, outstanding blues voice”
Copeland says what she wants, and she rarely apoligizes for it. She’s as known for her social stances as she is for her deep, mature, outstanding blues voice… Her father…
Shemekia special guest on The Cash Box Kings’ upcoming CD
The Cash Box Kings welcome Shemekia Copeland as a special guest on The Wine Talkin’, from their upcoming release, Hail To The Kings!, to be released on May 17 by Alligator Records….
Central Maine: “An even deeper well from which to draw”
I’ve been a fan of this powerful blues and R&B singer ever since she began her recording career on Alligator Records in 1998 at the age of 18. The daughter…