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1981 studio album by Johnny Copeland
Copeland Special is an album by the American musician
Johnny Copeland .
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[2] It was in 1981 on
Rounder Records in the United States,
Demon Records in the United Kingdom, and
Black & Blue Records 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 .
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[4]
Critical reception
Robert Christgau wrote that the "conviction [is] more 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 – baritone saxophone
Bill Ohashi, Garrett List – trombone
John Pratt, Yusef Yancey – trumpet
References
^ Palmer, Robert (4 Sep 1981). "Johnny Copeland, a Blues Find from Texas, at Tramps". The New York Times . p. C5.
^ Sullivan, Jim (18 Sep 1981). "Texas Blues from Copeland". Arts. The Boston Globe . p. 1.
^ Tinder, Cliff (June 1983). "A Good-Lookin' Texas Sound". Record . 2 (8): 21.
^ Govenar, Alan B. (2008). Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound . Texas A&M University Press. p. 308.
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"Copeland Special Review by Bill Dahl" . AllMusic . Retrieved 26 July 2023 .
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"Johnny Copeland" . Robert Christgau . Retrieved 26 July 2023 .
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Hull, Tom (May 10, 2021).
"Music Week" . Tom Hull – on the Web . Retrieved May 13, 2021 .
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