Wicked

1	It's 2 A.M. 4:28
2	Not Tonight 3:15
3	Love Scene 4:10
4	The Other Woman 5:18
5	Whole Lotta Water 4:01
6	Beat up Guitar 4:27
7	Miss Hy Ciditty 4:22
8	Up on 1-2-5 5:06
9	Wild, Wild Women 3:20
10	The Fool You're Looking For 5:08
11	If He Moves His Lips 3:37
12	Steamy Windows 5:03
13	It's My Own Tears 6:05

Barnes & Noble

Shemekia Copeland may be the daughter of a singer and guitarist whose performances were so fierce he was called the Texas Twister, the late Johnny Clyde Copeland, but her second CD, Wicked, drives like a New York City cabbie. Copeland the younger burns rubber on the manhunt ditty "It's 2 a.m."; swerves in and out of the Uptown Horns on "Not Tonight," and puts the pedal to the metal for "Wild, Wild Woman." Adding fuel to this wild ride through the contemporary blues landscape is guitarist Jimmy Vivino of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," who fronts the studio band and shares in the producing credits. But there is also a cruise control that allows Copeland's mighty voice to lay back into the ballad of bullets and poverty "Up On 1-2-5," the cheating tale "The Other Woman," and her daddy's gospel-tinged "It's My Own Tears." The only other cover is Tony Joe White's "Steamy Windows," which gets a raging funk treatment. But Copeland gets down right down home on the folky "Beat Up Guitar" and "If He Moves His Lips," on which she shares vocals with veteran R&B singer Ruth Brown. Like her voice, Copeland's talent is vast, and she gives every facet of that gift a workout on Wicked. Roberta Penn

All Music Guide

Copeland continues to prove herself as one of the strongest young talents in the blues on this disc. While the material itself isn't as strong as that on her stellar first album, she still invests her all in tunes like the blasting "Not Tonight" and the romantic "Love Scene." Tim Sheridan

Southwest Blues

The CD kicks with a blues-rock feel reminiscent of early Black Crows or Sass Jordan. This is most certainly still the blues, but Southern tinged.