''Copeland Special'' is an album by the American musician
Johnny Copeland
John Clyde Copeland (March 27, 1937 – July 3, 1997) was an American Texas blues guitarist and singer. In 1983, he was named Blues Entertainer of the Year by the Blues Foundation. He is the father of blues singer Shemekia Copeland.
In 2017, Co ...
. It was in 1981 on
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Al ...
in the United States,
Demon Records
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History
DM ...
in the United Kingdom, and
Black & Blue Records
Black & Blue Records was a record company and label founded in France in 1968 that specialized in blues and jazz.
Black & Blue reissued music from small American labels before producing original releases. Some of these releases were by black m ...
in France. It was recorded and mixed at Blank Tapes, 37 West 20th Street, NYC, and produced by
Dan Doyle. The album won a
W. C. Handy Award.
Critical reception
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...
wrote that the "conviction
smore palpable here than on any new blues to come my way since Johnny Shines's 1977 ''Too Wet to Plow''."
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Track listing
#"Claim Jumper"
#"I Wish I Was Single"
#"Everybody Wants A Piece Of Me"
#"Copeland Special"
#"It´s My Own Tears"
#"Third Party"
#"Big Time"
#"Down On Bended Knee"
#"Done Got Over It"
#"St. Louis Blues"
Personnel
*Johnny Copeland – guitar, vocals
*John Leibman – guitar
*Don Whitcomb – bass
*Mansfield Hitchman – drums (except on tracks 1, 3, 5, 7)
*Candy McDonald – drums on tracks 1, 3, 5
*Julian Vaughan – drums on track 7
*Anthony Browne – organ on tracks 2, 5
*Ken Vangel – piano arrangements
*Brookly Slim – harmonica on track 4
*George Adams – tenor & soprano saxophone
*Arthur Blythe – alto saxophone
*Byard Lancaster – alto & tenor saxophone
*Joe Rigby
Joe Rigby was an American multi-instrumentalist. Primarily a saxophonist, Rigby is known for his affiliation with the downtown New York jazz community in the late 1970s and his affiliation with Milford Graves as well as for his solo performances ...
– baritone saxophone
*Bill Ohashi, Garrett List – trombone
*John Pratt, Yusef Yancey – trumpet
References
External links
DiscogsOfficial Johnny Copeland site
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Johnny Copeland albums
1981 albums
Rounder Records albums