Award-winning blues and R&B vocalist digs deep into Americana soil on a new release produced by genre champion Will Kimbrough and featuring songwriting and/or guest performances by John Prine, Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Gauthier, Emmylou Harris, Steve Cropper, Katie Pruitt and more.
With America’s Child Shemekia stakes her claim as a riveting Americana singer of striking authenticity. The album features eight new songs from Gauthier, Kimbrough and more, plus brilliant covers of Prine’s “Great Rain,” The Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else,” Johnny Copeland’s “Promised Myself” and the traditional ballad “Go To Sleepy Little Baby.”