MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Rory Block Widely considered to be the foremost female interepreter of country blues, Aurora "Rory" Block comes by her authority honestly. After all, how many other contemporary blues artists can say they took lessons from Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Son House? The daughter of a Greenwich Village record store proprietor, Rory was playing folk and classical guitar by the time she was ten, but she soon became enchanted by the haunting sounds of Delta blues. Many blues artists stayed with her family on their way through town, and Rory usually had the opportunity to pull out her guitar and play alongside them. She moved to California in the 1960s to pursue a recording career, but wound up raising a family instead. Rory finally returned to music in the 1970s; unfortunately, her record label tried to turn her into a disco version of Bonnie Raitt, with disastrous commercial results. Happily, Rounder Records signed her in 1981, and gave her the freedom to return to her Delta roots. Since then, she's established a large following on both sides of the Atlantic; in 1998, she even won the W.C. Handy Award for "Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year."     Rory Block Terraplane Blues (Live) WinMedia Blues A straight-up, low-down version of the Robert Johnson classic.
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