America’s Child
- 01 - Ain't Got Time For Hate
- 02 - Americans
- 03 - Would You Take My Blood?
- 04 - Great Rain
- 05 - Smoked Ham and Peaches
- 06 - The Wrong Idea
- 07 - Promised Myself
- 08 - In the Blood of the Blues
- 09 - Such a Pretty Flame
- 10 - One I Love
- 11 - I'm Not Like Everybody Else
- 12 - Go To Sleepy Little Baby
1. Ain’t Got Time for Hate
(John Hahn & Will Kimbrough,
Avarice and Greed Publ./Will Kimbrough Music, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead guitar: Will Kimbrough
Pedal steel guitar: Al Perkins
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
Harmonica: J.D. Wilkes
Background vocals: Mary Gauthier, Emmylou Harris, Will Kimbrough, Gretchen Peters, John Prine, Katie Pruitt, Kristi Stassinopoulou and Tommy Womack
2. Americans
(Mary Gauthier & John Hahn,
Mary Gauthier Songs, ASCAP/Avarice and Greed Publ., BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Guitar, organ: Will Kimbrough
Pedal steel guitar: Paul Franklin
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
Background vocals: Mary Gauthier, Emmylou Harris and Katie Pruitt
3. Would You Take My Blood?
(John Hahn & Will Kimbrough,
Avarice and Greed Publ./Will Kimbrough Music, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Guitar, organ: Will Kimbrough
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
4. Great Rain
(John Prine & Michael Campbell,
Weona Music/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland and special guest John Prine
Lead guitar, organ: Will Kimbrough
Guitar: Al Perkins
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
5. Smoked Ham And Peaches
(Mary Gauthier & John Hahn,
Mary Gauthier Songs, ASCAP/Avarice and Greed Publ., BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
National guitar: Will Kimbrough
African banjo: Rhiannon Giddens
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
6. The Wrong Idea
(John Hahn, Willie Morrison, Truman Morrison, Kevin Nolan & Matt Nolan,
Avarice and Greed Publ./ The Morrison Brothers Band Music, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead guitar, organ: Will Kimbrough
Fiddle: Kenny Sears
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
Background vocals: Lisa Oliver Gray and Shemekia Copeland
7. Promised Myself
(Johnny Clyde Copeland, JoClyde Music, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead Guitar: Steve Cropper
Guitar, Organ: Will Kimbrough
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
8. In The Blood Of The Blues
(Terry Abrahamson & Derrick Procell, Rolling Fork Music/Saw Rite Music, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead guitar: Will Kimbrough
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
9. Such A Pretty Flame
(John Hahn & Oliver Wood,
Avarice and Greed Publ./Royal Kook Music, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead guitar: Will Kimbrough
Pedal steel guitar: Al Perkins
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
10. One I Love
(Kevin Gordon & Gwil Owen, Little Rain Music/Turgid Tunes, BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead guitar: Will Kimbrough
Harmonica: J.D. Wilkes
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
11. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
(Ray Davies, Abkco Music, Inc./Unichappell Music, Inc., BMI)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead Guitar: Will Kimbrough
Bass: Lex Price
Drums: Pete Abbott
12. Go To Sleepy Little Baby
(Traditional)
Vocals: Shemekia Copeland
Lead guitar: Will Kimbrough
Produced
by Will Kimbrough
Executive Producer:
John Hahn
Recorded and mixed
by Sean Sullivan
at the Butcher Shoppe,
Nashville, Tennessee
Additional recording
by Will Kimbrough
and Stathis Kalyviotis
Mastered by Jim Demain
at Yes Master, Nashville, Tennessee
Cover photo by Kevin Cook,
KCC Photography
Additional photos
by Mike White
Packaging design
by Kevin Niemiec