Rory Block – Best Blues And Originals (Comp. 1988)
Munich Records | Comp. 1988 | Blues | EAC RIP | FLAC+CUE+LOG+HQ-Covers (400Dpi) | 382Mb+11Mb
Aurora "Rory" Block has staked her claim to be one of America's top
acoustic blues women, an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers,
a slide guitarist par excellence, and also a talented songwriter on her
own account. Born and raised in Manhattan by a family that had bohemian
leanings, she spent her formative years hanging out with musicians like
Peter Rowan, John Sebastian, and Geoff Muldaur, who hung out in her
father's sandal shop, before picking up the guitar at the age of ten.
Her record debut came two years later, backing her father on The
Elektra String Band Project, a concept album. She met guitarist Stefan
Grossman, who, like her, was in love with the blues. The pair would
often travel to the Bronx to visit Reverend Gary Davis, one of the
greatest living bluesmen.
At the tender age of 15 Block left home, hitting the road in true
'60s fashion and traveling through the South, where she learned her
blues trade at the feet of Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt, her
greatest influence, before ending up in Berkeley. It was there that she
developed her slide technique (she uses a socket wrench as her slide),
but she didn't record until 1975, when she released I'm in Love (a
compilation of earlier material, The Early Tapes 1975-1976, appeared
later). After two records for Chrysalis, she recorded the instructional
How to Play Blues Guitar for Grossman's Kicking Mule label, and later
moved to then-fledgling Rounder, with whom she enjoyed an ongoing
relationship. She toured constantly, often playing as many as 250 dates
in a year, which kept her away from her family -- she'd married and
begun having children in the early '70s -- but developed her reputation
as a strong, vibrant live performer, and one of the best players of old
country blues in America.
In 1987 the best of Block's Rounder cuts were compiled on Best
Blues & Originals, which, as it said, featured her interpretations
of blues classics and some of her own material. Two of the tracks,
released as singles in Belgium and Holland, became gold record hits. In
addition to her regular albums, Block made a series of instructional
records and videos, as well as a children's record, Color Me Wild.
Although she had been performing for a long time, the plaudits didn't
really begin until 1992, when she won a NAIRD Award for Ain't I a
Woman, a feat repeated in 1994 and 1997. In 1996 she began winning W.C.
Handy Awards, first for Best Traditional Album (When a Woman Gets the
Blues), and in 1997 and 1998 for Best Traditional Blues Female Artist.
In 1997 she was elected to the CAMA Hall of Fame, and in 1999 she
received yet another Handy Award, for Best Acoustic Blues Album
(Confessions of a Blues Singer).
Tracklist:
01. Walkin' Blues
02. Travelin' Blues
03. Got To Have You Be My Man
04. The Water is Wide
05. Crossroad Blues
06. Ain't No Way To Do
07. Catastrophe Rag
08. Lovin' Fool
09. Sit Down on the Banks
10. God's Gift to Women
11. The Golden Vanity
12. El Vuelo Del Alma
13. Future Blues
14. M & O Blues
15. Foreign Lander
16. Moon's Goin' Down
17. Send the Man Back Home
18. Lovin' Whiskey
19. Gypsie Boy
20. Goin' Back to the Country
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