Copeland Special is an album by the American musician Johnny Copeland.

[1][2] It was in 1981 on Rounder Records in the United States, Demon Records in the United Kingdom, and Black & Blue Records in France.

It was recorded and mixed at Blank Tapes, 37 West 20th Street, NYC, and produced by Dan Doyle.

The album won a W. C. Handy Award.

[3][4] Robert Christgau wrote that the "conviction [is] more palpable here than on any new blues to come my way since Johnny Shines's 1977 Too Wet to Plow.