Robert Finney

Shemekia Copeland had the advantage of good genes and a strong family name early in her career as the daughter of top-shelf blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, but 17 years after she cut her debut album, she's established that she can more than get by on her own talent and reputation, and 2015's Outskirts of Love (which finds her returning to Alligator Records after a pair of albums for Telarc) shows once again she's one of the strongest and most capable vocalists in the contemporary blues game. Copeland has a solid, expressive voice with plenty of power, she knows how to sell a song without an excess of melodrama, and with producer and songwriter Oliver Wood she's found a creative partnership that serves both sides well.

Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, cross swords time and time again in an attempt to achieve justice and preserve their honor - A Strasburgo, nel 1800, mentre Napoleone è Console, il tenente Gabriel Féraud ferisce gravemente in duello il nipote del sindaco e il gen. Treillard incarica il tenente Armand d'Hubert di notificare al collega gli arresti domiciliari. D'Hubert compie il suo dovere mentre Féraud si trova nel salotto di Madame de Lionne.