| Copeland, Shemekia / Done Come Too Far |
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| Album: | Done Come Too Far | Collection: | Blues | |
| Artist: | Copeland, Shemekia | Added: | Nov 2022 | |
| Label: | Alligator | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2023-01-20 | Pull Date: | 2023-03-24 | Charts: | Blues |
| Week Ending: | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 | Jan 29 | Jan 22 |
| Airplays: | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 18, 2023: | Hanging In The Boneyard Done Come Too Far | 4. | Feb 16, 2023: | Traditions Barefoot in Heaven | |
| 2. | Feb 18, 2023: | Music Casserole Fried Catfish and Bibles | 5. | Feb 15, 2023: | Brain worm Why Why Why | |
| 3. | Feb 16, 2023: | Run-Away Radio Too Far to Be Gone, Gullah Geechee | 6. | Feb 09, 2023: | Exploring the ul-A file Fried Catfish and Bibles |
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2022-11-01 | ||
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ELECTRIC BLUES / R&B Here’s another excellent, powerful album from the exceptional Shemekia Copeland. Like her recent albums, America's Child [2018] and Uncivil War [2020], this one provides provocative commentary on America today ranging from the personal to the systemic. A few songs are sly & humorous; most are serious as a heart attack. Original songs (I believe) except for 5, 8 & 12. The terrific band is guitars, bass, drums, sometimes keys. FCC clean 1 ** Scorching hard-rocking civil rights anthem for right now. Superb, loud guitars. Mentions of Rosa Parks, MLK, John Lewis. (3:47) 2 ** Equally intense song about mass shootings. Stones-like accompaniment. (3:28) 3 Slow blues ballad. A mom has “the talk” with her son. Tragic. (5:23) 4 * A slavery story in work-song cadence with banjo, handclaps, choral chants. (3:36) 5 * Slow & heartbroken. A woman confronts her cheating man. (3:25) 6 * Fun, mid-tempo, Cajun dance with accordion, ‘tit fer, fiddle, washboard. (3:03) 7 Slow blues about civil rights: progress made, but not yet done. Electric resonator guitar & duet singing by Cedric Burnside (the grandson of R.L.) (5:08) 8 * Mid-tempo (tongue in cheek?) country-gospel tune (by Ray Wylie Hubbard). (3:31) 9 * Honky-tonk parody about opposites attracting. Pokes fun at a lot of stereotypes. (3:16) 10 Slow & spare. Tough song seems to be about domestic violence/rape. (2:56) 11 Sarcastic takedown of our current (dumb) culture. (4:01) 12 ** Soulful love song in blues form (by Shemekia’s dad, Johnny Copeland). (4:20) | ||
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