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I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Stone Cold , from Russ Green , and it's a driving blues rocker. Opening with Lint Redux , you are immediately in the middle of a swampy blues with modern effects. With a firm foot stomp by Felix Pollard on drums and Vic Jackson on bass Russ Green on harmonica and vocals really has the earthy feel. Giles Corey on slide gives the track great grease and Green's harp work is strong. Excellent opener. 12 Feet of Water opens with a terrific harmonica aria before grinding into a super drum driven romp. With the feel that I can only describe as Hill Country , Green delivers such soulful vocals, comforted by Joe Monroe on keys, this track just grabs you. Green's harmonica is like a shuddering wind blowing through you with the thumping bass of Vic Jackson and Vince Agwada on guitar. Excellent! Easy going shuffle, Nobody Knows has a smooth, supple melody with backing acoustic guitar, minimal drum work and melodic ha...
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Shemekia Copeland Receives Grammy Award Nomination
SHEMEKIA COPELAND'S OUTSKIRTS OF LOVE
RECEIVES GRAMMY AWARD
NOMINATION
CD NAMED ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BY THE
BLUES
MAGAZINE (UK)
Blues/soul/roots singing
sensation Shemekia Copeland's new CD,
Outskirts Of Love, received a Grammy
Award nomination in the Best Blues Album category from the Recording Academy on
Monday, December 7. Winners will be announced in Los Angeles on February 15,
2016. This is Copeland's third Grammy nomination. Copeland, the reigning "Queen
Of The Blues," also appears on Muddy
Waters 100, a various artists tribute album also nominated for Best
Blues Album.
The outstanding Shemekia Copeland
news does not end with the Grammy Award nomination. The prestigious United
Kingdom publication The Blues
named Outskirts Of Love its
2015 Album Of The Year. In the magazine's review of the record, writer Rev.
Keith Gordon says, "Shemekia Copeland is one of the best singers
performing today. A rich blend of blues, soul and roots-rock that will astound
the casual listener while rewarding Copeland's longtime fans. Pure joy."
Editor Ed Mitchell calls it "a mature masterpiece of modern blues."
Copeland’s
return to Alligator Records with Outskirts
Of Love (she recorded four albums for the label from
1998 through 2006) finds her at her most charismatic. She mixes freshly written
material with thrilling reinventions of songs originally recorded by Solomon
Burke, ZZ Top, Jesse Winchester, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Jesse Mae Hemphill and her father, the late Johnny Clyde
Copeland. MOJO
magazine says, "It is Copeland’s thrilling voice, part Koko Taylor, part
Mavis Staples and capable of incredible expression, that makes Outskirts Of Love
so super-special. Spectacular, stirring, sanctified and sassy…at the crossroads
where funk meets blues rock. Her band, led by producer Oliver Wood, and
featuring guests Billy F Gibbons, Robert Randolph, Alvin Youngblood Hart and
Will Kimbrough, is faultless throughout."
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