Shemekia Copeland - Done Come Too Far

Done Come Too Far on 140-gram clear vinyl LP

New from award-winning vocalist Shemekia Copeland

Her follow-up to 2020's Grammy-nominated Uncivil War

Grammy-nominated blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland is revered worldwide for her defiant music and fire-breathing performances. Done Come Too Far continues Shemekia's riveting, clear-eyed testimony about our troubled world and the blessings that keep hope alive. The new album is again produced by Will Kimbrough, and an all-star supporting cast includes slide guitar whiz Sonny Landreth, Hill Country blues great Cedric Burnside and Hi Rhythm Section organist Charles Hodges.

Done Come Too Far is another exhilarating Shemekia Copeland showcase, as her rousing vocals bring the heat in an infectious array of muscular rockers, stomping blues, swampy soul and heartbreaking ballads. Intense new originals make up most of the tracks and spirited versions of songs by Ray Wylie Hubbard and her father, Johnny Copeland, fit right into the mix.

Done Come Too Far continues the story Copeland began telling on 2019's groundbreaking America's Child and 2020's Grammy-nominated Uncivil War, reflecting her vision of America's past, present and future. On Done Come Too Far, she delivers her hard-hitting musical truths through her eyes, those of a young American Black woman, a mother, and a wife. But she likes to have a good time too, and her music reflects that, at times putting her sly sense of humor front and center.

According to Copeland, "This album was made by all sides of me — happy, sad, silly, irate — they're all a part who I am and who we all are. I'm not political. I'm just talking about what's happening in this country."

And she doesn't hold back. Recorded in Nashville and produced by multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Will Kimbrough (who also produced her previous two albums), Done Come Too Far is Copeland at her charismatic, passionate, confrontational best.

Copeland — winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year — has performed thousands of gigs at clubs, festivals and concert halls all over the world since her Alligator Records debut Turn The Heat Up hit in 1998. She has appeared in films, on national television, NPR, and in magazines and newspapers. She's sung with Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Dr. John, and many others, and has shared a bill with The Rolling Stones. She entertained U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait in 2008, a trip she says, "that opened my eyes to the larger world around me and my place in it."

In 2012, she performed with B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Trombone Shorty, Gary Clark, Jr. and others at the White House for President and Mrs. Obama. She has appeared on PBS's Austin City Limits and was the subject of a six-minute feature on the PBS News Hour.

Side A

1. Too Far to Be Gone

2. Pink Turns to Red

3. The Talk

4. Gullah Geechee

5. Why Why Why

6. Fried Catfish and Bibles

Side B

1. Done Come Too Far

2. Barefoot in Heaven

3. Fell in Love with a Honky

4. The Dolls Are Sleeping

5. Dumb It Down

6. Nobody But You

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