{"id":5160,"date":"2013-04-05T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2013-04-05T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:00:51","slug":"texas-blues-man-johnny-copeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/texas-blues-man-johnny-copeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Blues Man Johnny Copeland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Johnny Copeland has been written into music history as one of the iconic Texas blues guitar slingers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been realizing more and more that my music has gravitated toward the Texas blues more than any other blues style out there. There’s just something about the heavy electric Texas blues men like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddie King, and Albert Collins that I enjoy very much. Even some of the more progressive players like Eric Johnson appeal heavily to me. So to stay in that vain of Texas blues, I wanted to feature Johnny Copeland today. Most of us don’t think of him as one of the big Texas blues men, but nevertheless he made many contributions to the style of music. And now, even though he has passed away, his daughter Shemekia Copeland is following in her father’s footsteps and becoming one of the great young blues singers on stage today. I hope you enjoy hearing from Johnny Copeland as much as I certainly did!<\/p>\n

I wanted to start off with one of Johnny’s up tempo pieces, because the guy definitely knew how to build a groove. Enjoy this performance of “Devil’s Hand,” at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1J_Dc_lj4d8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The video that inspired this whole post is up next. He put down the electric guitar, picked up his acoustic, sat on a stool, and performed a killer solo rendition of the song, “Flying High.” Enjoy the video now at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2bbP35szdns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, one of Johnny’s most memorable performances was with the iconic Stevie Ray Vaughan. Here’s the band playing at the Montreux festival in 1985 performing the song, “Tin Pan Alley,” at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=251iHNjSqUY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I hope you dug hearing from the famous Texas blues man Johnny Copeland. He and his music will surely go down in music history as one of the iconic blues men. There’s more coming your way at Blues Guitar Unleashed, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been realizing more and more that my music has gravitated toward the Texas blues more than any other blues style out there. There’s just something about the heavy electric Texas blues men like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddie King, and Albert Collins that I enjoy very much. Even some of the more progressive players like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}