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Released
  
1981 (1981)

Copeland Special (1981)
  
Texas Twister (1984)

Release date
  
1981

Genre
  
Blues

Producer
  
Dan Doyle

Artist
  
Johnny Copeland

Label
  
Rounder Records

Recorded
  
Blank Tapes 37 West 20th Street New York City

Blues albums
  
Showdown!, Bringing It All Back Home, Bahamut, Mallard, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Ag

Copeland Special is an album released by Johnny Copeland in 1981 on Rounder Records in the United States, Demon Records in the United Kingdom, and Black and 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.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Claim Jumper"
  2. "I Wish I Was Single"
  3. "Everybody Wants A Piece Of Me"
  4. "Copeland Special"
  5. "It´s My Own Tears"
  6. "Third Party"
  7. "Big Time"
  8. "Down On Bended Knee"
  9. "Done Got Over It"
  10. "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 tracks 2, 5
  • Ken Vangel - piano arrangements
  • Brookly Slim -harmonica 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

    • Songs

    1Claim Jumper3:38
    2I Wish I Was Single4:54
    3Everybody Wants a Piece of Me2:58

    References

    Copeland Special Wikipedia
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