Turn the Heat Up! album by Shemekia Copeland was released May 05, 1998 on the Alligator label. The daughter of the late bluesman Johnny Copeland steps up to the plate with this, her debut album for the Alligator imprint. Turn the Heat Up! songs Although only 19 at the time of this recording, Copeland comes to this album with a mature style and vast amounts of assuredness. Turn the Heat Up! album While comparisons to Koko Taylor and Etta James will be plentiful, Shemekia has enough tricks up her sleeve to make this a disc well worth checking out. Turn the Heat Up! CD music Eight of the 14 tunes aboard are co-written by producer John Hahn and strong musical support is summoned up from guitarist Jimmy Vivino, with guest turns from Joe Louis Walker and "Monster" Mike Welch, while the Uptown Horns show up on three tunes, including the title track. Highlights are numerous on this disc, but special attention should be paid to Copeland's "Ghetto Child," a nice cover of Don Covay's "Have Mercy"; Walker's "Your Mama's Talking"; and the strutting "I Always Get My Man." This is one very impressive debut. Turn the Heat Up! CD music contains a single disc with 14 songs.
1 Turn Up the Heat with Uptown Horns 2 I Always Get My Man with Michael Hill 3 Salt in My Wounds * with Uptown Horns 4:10 4 Cold Feet with Jimmy Vivino 5 Suspicion with Jimmy Vivino 6 My Turn Baby with Joe Louis Walker 7 Ghetto Child See All 2 with "Monster" Mike Welch, Monster Mike Welch 8 Your Mama's Talking 9 Has Anybody Seen My Man? 10 Married To the Blues with Uptown Horns 11 Big Lovin' Woman with Jimmy Vivino 12 My Kind of Guy 13 Have Mercy 14 It Don't Hurt No More