Shemekia Copeland - Clotilda’s On Fire

Hahn & Kimbrough, Avarice & Greed Publ./Will Kimbrough Music c/o Bluewater Music, BMI

She’s the female blues artist of her generation, blessed with a cathartic voice and larger-than-life presence. Shemekia joined the Alligator family when she was only 18. Since then, she’s made nine sensational albums, been nominated for three Grammys, won a dozen Blues Music Awards, appeared at the White House, opened for the Rolling Stones, and toured worldwide. Over the last decade, she’s been expanding her blues, bringing in strains of Americana and delivering songs with up-to-the-minute, socially conscious lyrics. This striking song is about the last slave ship that sailed from Africa to the U.S., and how we’re still living with the ghosts of slavery. Alabaman Jason Isbell, an Americana superstar, provides the passionate guitar playing.