Award-winning blues and R&B vocalist digs deep into Americana soil on a
new release produced by genre champion Will Kimbrough and featuring songwriting
and/or guest performances by John Prine, Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Gauthier,
Emmylou Harris, Steve Cropper, Katie Pruitt and more.
Shemekia’s 2015 release, Outskirts Of Love, has scanned
just shy of 10,000 units.
Past media coverage includes USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post,
DownBeat, NPR.com, PopMatters.com, NoDepression.com, MOJO (UK), Blues Magazine
(FR), Blues Matters (UK) Soul Bag (FR), Paris Move (FR), Ruta 66 (SP), Rhythms
(AU), Bluesnews (DE), Blues News (FI), Norwegian Blues News, Blues And Soul
Records (JP),
Maple Blues (CN) and more.
Extensive tour schedule for this high-powered, magnetic performer, beginning
street date on the West Coast and taking Shemekia to club, theatre and festival
performances throughout the world by the end of the year. Alligator social
media, radio and print promotion will be advancing every date.
America’s Child will be serviced and promoted for regular rotation airplay
and blues shows in Canada, Europe, UK, Australia and various internet music
programmers around the world.
With America’s Child Shemekia stakes her claim as a riveting Americana singer
of striking authenticity. The album features eight new songs from Gauthier,
Kimbrough and more, plus
brilliant covers of Prine’s “Great Rain,” The Kinks’ “I’m Not Like
Everybody Else,” Johnny Copeland’s “Promised Myself” and the traditional
ballad “Go To Sleepy Little Baby.”
support for AMERICA’S CHILD •Advertising includes ads on NoDepression.com
and in Living
Blues, Blues Music Magazine, Blues Matters (UK), Blues & Rhythm (UK), Maple
Blues (Canada), Rhythms (Australia) and other publications.
