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Shemekia Copeland played the Abbey Bar inside of the Appalachian Brewing Company on 05-21-2010 in Harrisburg, PA.  Shemekia Copeland is a young blues artist growing up in the footsteps of her father, Johnny Copeland, who was a Grammy award winning blues guitarist.

Shemekia looks like she has a blast every time she is on the stage, she looks like she sincerely loves singing the blues.  She interacts with the audience and even fulfilled a request or two during the set.  her voice is undeniable and her smooth vocal deliveries and her huge smile make her a great performer.

Many of her songs are about busted up and broken past relationships.  While that is nothing new, her brutal honesty makes the songs very personal.  One such song about her being cheated on refers to the day she found out she was the “other” lady and that her boyfriend was actually married.  Her honesty does not stop with relationships, Sounds Like the Devil is a strongly opinionated song the past presidency by George bush.

Three tracks I recommend you listening to are:
Never Going Back to Memphis – A very loose groove drenched in tremolo and reverb and sultry singing.
Who Stole My Radio? – A great pop blues song that leaves you humming the tune for a week.
Sounds Like the Devil – Shemekia shows she is not afraid to speak her mind about politics.

I do not know the setlist, but songs that I am pretty sure were played:
Sounds Like the Devil  
Dirty Water  
Never Going Back to Memphis  
The Truth is the Light
Born a Penny
Rise Up 
Big Brand New Religion 
Circumstances
Breakin’ Out
Who Stole My Radio?
Poor, Poor Excuse
All About You
Strong Enough
Givin’ Up You
Used
Honey Do that VooDoo
Something Heavy