{"id":418,"date":"2013-10-17T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=418"},"modified":"2015-10-07T20:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T20:26:31","slug":"annika-chambers-and-shemekia-copeland-discovery-green-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/17\/annika-chambers-and-shemekia-copeland-discovery-green-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Annika Chambers and Shemekia Copeland – Discovery Green – Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by James Killen <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 17, 2013 at 07:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"Last Thursday night Houston finished up the fall concert series at Discovery Green with a double shot of the blues, featuring Houstonian, Annika Chambers and New Yorker, Shemekia Copeland. Miss Chambers started the evening out with her ten piece band strutting out some of the tunes that will be featured on her upcoming debut, \u201cMaking my Mark\u201d, due out in January.<\/p>\n

Annika opened up with \u201cPut it Where you Want it\u201d featuring some wailing sax and guitar solos. Her set was full of double entendre blues lyrics in the finest ladies of the blues tradition, including \u201cAll the Hens go to Running\u201d and \u201cI Want to be your Liquor\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 She sprinkled a few cover songs in as well like Robert Guidry\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m the Jealous Kind\u201d.<\/p>\n

The band was joined by Miss Dee Ray for a rappish sort of song called \u201cGive Me another Hit of that Feel Good\u201d. Annika touched on her gospel roots singing a song about finding peace on earth or in Heaven and closed her set out with a funk blues piece that she co-wrote with Miss Dee Ray. The band was tight with three talented guitarists, two keyboardists, a great sax player and wonderful backing vocals for Miss Chambers\u2019 amazing voice. She and her band will be playing Warehouse Live on 10\/25\/2013.<\/p>\n

Shemekia Copeland, daughter of Houston born Johnny Clyde Copeland, was quick to claim Houston as part of her heritage, even though she grew up in Harlem. She pointed out that growing up in Harlem, all of the boys wanted to be hip\/hop rapsters and all of the little girls wanted to sing like Whitney Houston. Shemekia always intended to sing the blues with heroes like Koko Taylor and Etta James.<\/p>\n

Shemekia led off her set with \u201cDirty Water\u201d featuring a killer slide guitar part, followed by a funky \u201cGiving Up You\u201d. Ms. Copeland took us from Thursday night in the park to Saturday night in the club with \u201cThe Other Woman (Was Me)\u201d, a song of sudden realization and betrayal. Yeah, baby, that could be the blues. Following in fine tradition was a rocking tune with guttural vocals called \u201cBig Lovin\u2019 Woman\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ms. Copeland took the band out for a spin on a song written by her father called, \u201cCircumstances\u201d. Willie Scandlyn played a growling dirty lead which was closely followed by a screaming Les Paul lead from Arthur Nielson. She sang an original Shemekia composition that she later dedicated to Johnny Winter called \u201cI Ain\u2019t Gonna Be Your Tatoo\u201d (end up faded and blue) that featured a shredding lead guitar that would have made Johnny proud.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"Shemekia wasn\u2019t warming to any self-righteous proclamations when she sang \u201cSomebody Else\u2019s Jesus\u201d. She did however give a reverent bow to Koko Taylor with the style and rhythm of \u201cHas Anybody Seen My Man\u201d and followed that up with the creepy murder cover-up song \u201cNever Going Back to Memphis\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shemekia began to take it home with a depiction of her grandmother\u2019s church called \u201cBig Brand New Religion\u201d and a song that she wrote for her Daddy called \u201cGhetto Child\u201d. The encore was one of her more popular tunes, \u201cIt\u2019s 2AM\u201d (Do you know where your baby is?)<\/p>\n

Without a doubt, Thursday night\u2019s blues extravaganza was the perfect way to close up the Discovery Green fall series. Both bands were a joy to watch and hear. Annika was striking out a new road in the blues from Houston and Shemekia was stretching one out from Harlem, carrying on the tradition that had been the passion of her father, Koko and Etta. Personally, I felt lucky to be amongst the viewers. Ya\u2019ll have fun. We do.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by James Killen Oct 17, 2013 at 07:00 PM Last Thursday night Houston finished up the fall concert series at Discovery Green with a double shot of the blues, featuring Houstonian, Annika Chambers and New Yorker, Shemekia Copeland. Miss Chambers started the evening out with her ten piece band strutting out some of the… <\/p>\n

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