Rory Block - Heavy On The Blues

Album: Heavy On The Blues
Size: 94,4 MB
Time: 40:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues/Roots
Art: Front

1. Hi Heel Sneakers (3:38)
2. Walking The Back Streets (Feat. Ronnie Earl) (6:07)
3. What Kind Of Woman Is This (Feat. Jimmy Vivino) (3:56)
4. Hold To His Hand (4:25)
5. The Wind Cries Mary (Feat. Joanna Connor) (3:32)
6. Down The Dirt Road Blues (3:54)
7. Mississippi Blues (4:16)
8. Me And My Chauffeur Blues (2:48)
9. Can't Quit That Stuff (3:53)
10. Stay Around A Little Longer (4:20)

Heavy On The Blues features Rory Block's world-renowned acoustic and slide blues playing as well as her soulful and passionate singing. Lending a helping hand on the record are three of the top blues guitarists in the world, Ronnie Earl, Jimmy Vivino, and Joanna Connor. The 10 songs on Heavy On The Blues include What Kind of Man Is This (Little Milton), Walking The Back Streets (Koko Taylor), The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix), and Stay Around a Little Longer (Buddy Guy). Rory has included an original composition on the release, Can’t Quit That Stuff inspired by a conversation with the late, great Hubert Sumlin. The album showcases Rory’s broad and unique interpretations of all forms of the blues and roots music.

Rory Block is the standard bearer for early American roots blues - a celebrated, multi-award-winning artist and a songwriter whose originals ring with unadorned power and truth. She is a Gold-album selling and 7-time Blues Music Award winner, widely regarded as the top female performer of traditional country blues. Rory Block cut her first album at age 12, backing her father on The Elektra String Band Project. In her career, she has produced 36 albums. Rory is living life as a music producer, author, ordained minister (she refers to it as “Preaching the Blues”), a music producer, mother, wife, and friend to thousands at her Church LIVE venue in rural Chatham, New York.

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Rory Block - Ain't Nobody Worried

Size: 111.2 MB
Time: 47:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues Folk
Art: Front

01. I'll Take You There (3:39)
02. Midnight Train To Georgia (5:14)
03. My Guy (3:13)
04. Fast Car (5:18)
05. Cried Like A Baby (5:44)
06. Love Has No Pride (4:34)
07. I'd Rather Go Blind (3:40)
08. Lovin' Whiskey (4:07)
09. Dancing In The Streets (3:30)
10. You've Got A Friend (4:44)
11. Freight Train (3:31)

The concept for the album is to cover songs by women on the blues edge of things — songs by Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Elizabeth Cotton, Carole King, Etta James, Koko Taylor, the Staples Singers, Mary Wells, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Rory Block, and Martha and the Vandellas. In the liner notes, Block makes clear that these folks deserve to be celebrated and honored, and that is the motivation behind the album. As Block points out in the liner notes, these are songs written by women that changed the world.

And who doesn’t instantly start singing along to “I’ll Take You There,” the album opener, which is full of Rory Block’s growly and purring vocal punctuations. Somebody help me, let me take you there — courtesy of songwriting by and raw acoustic guitar with intermittent slide.

Depending on when you grew up, Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” might be the one to strike that chord for your heart. Or maybe it’ll be this toe-tapping version of “Dancin’ in the Streets,” which is divine. Mary Wells’ “My Guy” is light and fun. “Midnight Train to Georgia,” by Gladys Knight and the Pips plays with vicissitudes of vocal layers and honors the original. For younger folks, or for anyone who’s just curious, relish the timelessness and admire the beauty of the songs.

Get your dancing shoes on — or better yet, kick your shoes off and enjoy the celebration. The executive producer on the project was Holger Petersen. The album was recorded and mixed by Rob Davis, of Kentucky Studios in Sandy Hook, KY; and mastered by Toby Mountain, Northeastern Digital.

All guitar parts, slide, bass (played on guitar), and vocals on the entire album are performed by Rory Block, in addition to percussion and drum programming. ~Elise Cady

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Rory Block - Rhinestones & Steel Strings

Size: 76,7 MB
Time: 32:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1983/1990
Styles: Blues, Folk, Country
Art: Full

01. Future Blues (3:07)
02. I Might Find A Way (2:57)
03. El Vuelo Del Alma (3:26)
04. Lovin' Fool (3:31)
05. The Golden Vanity (4:46)
06. Dr. Make It Right (3:03)
07. No Way For Me To Get Along (3:23)
08. Back To The Woods (2:22)
09. God's Gift To Women (2:37)
10. Sit Down On The Banks (3:22)

Guitarist/vocalist Rory Block's mix of traditional blues covers, originals, satirical and folk/country material was featured on this album mixing mid-'80s and early-'90s tracks. Her versions of Robert Wilkins' "No Way For Me To Get Along" and Rev. Gary Davis' "Sit Down On The Banks" were among the high points, as well as Block's "Dr. Make It Right" and "I Might Find A Way." For the most part, the songs were nicely performed and varied between upbeat and somber themes. Block's vocals were frequently outstanding and never less than convincing, while her playing was strong and steady. ~Ron Wynn

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Dion - Blues With Friends

Size: 396 MB
Time: 60:53
File: FLAC
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back

01. Blues Comin’ On (Feat. Joe Bonamassa) (4:48)
02. Kickin’ Child (Feat. Joe Menza) (4:00)
03. Uptown Number 7 (Feat. Brian Setzer) (3:56)
04. Can’t Start Over Again (Feat. Jeff Beck) (4:26)
05. My Baby Loves To Boogie (Feat. John Hammond) (5:19)
06. I Got Nothin’ (Feat. Van Morrison & Joe Louis Walker) (5:05)
07. Stumbling Blues (Feat. Jimmy Vivino & Jerry Vivino) (3:00)
08. Bam Bang Boom (Feat. Billy Gibbons) (3:57)
09. I Got The Cure (Feat. Sonny Landreth) (4:07)
10. Song For Sam Cooke (Here In America) (Feat. Paul Simon) (4:24)
11. What If I Told You (Feat. Samantha Fish) (4:44)
12. Told You Once In August (Feat. Rory Block) (5:34)
13. Way Down (I Won’t Cry No More) (Feat. Stevie Van Zandt) (2:58)
14. Hymn To Him (Feat. Patti Scialfa & Bruce Springsteen) (4:30)

As one of the very few first-generation rock ‘n’ rollers still seriously pursing new avenues of expression, Dion’s Bronx soul is very much in evidence on this new album, a full-tilt blues offering. The blues songs therein are not “covers” nor Dion’s versions of blues standards. These compositions are in fact original blues masterpieces which are destined to become classics. He came up with the music and words for twelve of them and finished those with co-writer Mike Aquilina. The two exceptions are “Hymn To Him” which Dion wrote with Bill Tuohy and “Kickin’ Child,” written with Buddy Lucas.

To tell those stories, Dion recruited help from a few notable friends and admirers. He thought, “I needed to round up the best guitarists and musicians alive and pick them from every generation, every variation of blues.” And that’s just what he did, surrounding himself with those who feel the blues spirit as he does.

The album’s guests include the cream of the contemporary scene’s blues-rooted slingers including Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Brian Setzer, Sonny Landreth, Samantha Fish, John Hammond Jr., Joe Louis Walker, Rory Block , Jimmy and Jerry Vivino, vintage guitar guru Joe Menza as well as icons Stevie Van Zandt, Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and Paul Simon. Yes, that’s a whole lot of star power but each participated not because of his or her marquee appeal but because of what each could add musically. The result is one reflective of nuanced devotion to the blues rather than a gratuitous display of individual virtuosity. It’s very much Dion’s album and those bold face names participating are most convincingly there for him.

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VA - Notodden Blues Festival: Bluestown

Size: 142,5 MB
Time: 61:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front, Back, CD

01 Sista Monica - The Sista Don't Play (5:02)
02 Mighty Sam McClain - A New Man In Town (6:05)
03 Kim Wilson's Blues Express - Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You (7:38)
04 Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (7:03)
05 Jimmie Vaughan - Six Strings Down (3:28)
06 Roomful Of Blues - Left My Baby (5:35)
07 Rory Block - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (2:49)
08 Duke Robillard - Fishnet (5:58)
09 Kim Wilson's Blues Express - Black Cat Bone (5:08)
10 Omar & The Howlers - Mystery Walk (3:24)
11 Alex Schultz - To Late To Turn Back Now (4:29)
12 Larry McCray - I Feel So Damn Good (4:20)

Notodden Blues Festival (NBF) is one of the largest blues music festivals in Europe and the largest in Scandinavia. The festival is held in Notodden, Norway, usually in early August. It has been running annually since 1988.

The festival does not aim to be the biggest of its type, but to become Europe's "largest blues experience", which is reflected in their emphasis on quality over quantity.

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Rory Block - Prove It On Me

Size: 97,4 MB
Time: 41:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. He May Be Your Man (4:09)
02. It's Red Hot (3:32)
03. If You're A Viper (4:10)
04. Prove It On Me (3:15)
05. I Shall Wear A Crown (4:10)
06. Eagles (4:26)
07. Wayward Girl Blues (4:41)
08. In My Girlish Days (3:21)
09. Milk Man Blues (4:50)
10. Motherless Child (4:51)

This recording celebrates the songs of nine ground-breaking female blues artists, includes one of her own originals, and will be released March 27, 2020 on Stony Plain Records. Prove It On Me presents Rory's unique take on songs from phenomenal female performers and songwriters: Arizona Dranes, Elvie Thomas Merline Johnson, Madlyn Davis, Helen Humes, Rosetta Howard, Lottie Kimbrough, Gertrude ''Ma'' Rainey and Memphis Minnie. Rory's goal for this release was to spotlight some of the more obscure names of the genre, some of whom did not become widely known ''despite their immense talent''. All songs are given the ''Rory Block Band'' treatment, while showcasing their own individual style and contribution to the genre.

"For over a century, women of the blues have prevailed to record and perform their music. I hope we will do them justice by continuing to get to know them better today, as we celebrate their names more every year."

Prove It On Me was produced by Rory Block and Rob Davis. All vocals on the new disc are by Rory Block, who also played all the guitar and bass parts on her Signature Model Martin Guitars. In addition, all drums and percussion heard on the new disc - guitar bongos, hat boxes, plastic storage tubs, oatmeal boxes and wooden spoons - were played by Rory.

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Rory Block - House Of Hearts

Size: 90,1 MB
Time: 38:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1987
Styles: Contemporary Blues
Art: Full

01. Farewell Young Man (4:06)
02. Heavenly Bird (4:50)
03. Do You Love Me (4:05)
04. Morning Bells (3:46)
05. Gentle Kindness (1:27)
06. Misty Glen (3:26)
07. On The Water (2:34)
08. Bonnie Boy (4:04)
09. Krye (1:14)
10. House Of Hearts (9:00)

A somber, morose mood permeated this album dedicated to Block's son, guitarist Thiele David Biehusen, who died in a car crash at age 20 and whose voice can be heard on the answering machine in the lengthy final cut "House of Hearts." There are also other equally gripping tunes, like "Farewell Young Man," "Heavenly Bird" and "Bonnie Boy." Block's voice was at its most mournful, and this is both a deeply moving work and a downer of an album. It's impossible not to be affected hearing Block's singing or these lyrics; anyone who's been through any remotely similar experience will feel the pain, and even those who haven't can't help but share in her sadness. ~Ron Wynn

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John Sebastian & The J-Band - I Want My Roots

Size: 96,4 MB
Time: 40:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Full

01. Mobile Line (With Paul Rishell & Annie Raines) (2:29)
02. I Want My Roots (3:47)
03. Goin' To German (With Paul Rishell, Rory Block & Annie Raines) (3:11)
04. Big Road Blues (With Rory Block) (3:01)
05. Just Don't Stop 'till You're All Worn Out (3:21)
06. Ain't Nowhere To Hobo Anymore (2:51)
07. Milk Cow Blues (3:40)
08. Rain, Hey, Rain (3:13)
09. Statesboro Blues (With Rory Block) (3:36)
10. New Jug Band Waltz (1:36)
11. Tappin' That Thing (With Yank Rachell) (2:22)
12. Yank Rachell Boogie (With Yank Rachell) (1:17)
13. Divin' Duck (With Yank Rachell) (2:28)
14. K.C. Moan (3:23)

John Sebastian's early group affiliations in the Even Dozen Jug Band and the Lovin' Spoonful rose out of the casual party jug band music that enjoyed a brief period of popularity during the folk boom, mixing folk elements with the more celebratory elements of country and blues with a touch of zany fun thrown in. Combining with guitarist Jimmy Vivino and drummer James Wormworth, Sebastian brought in original jute player Fritz Richmond from the Jim Kweskin Jug Band to form the J-Band, co-credited on this album, which updates jug music for the '90s. Sebastian opens the proceedings with the old Spoonful song "Mobile Line" for reference, and then things get really crazy. Sebastian and Vivino contribute four originals, but the heart of the album is material by the likes of Sleepy John Estes and Blind Willie McTell, and guest stars Paul Risell, Annie Raines, Rory Block, Yank Rachell, Richard Crooks, and John Simon are just as likely to be playing or singing as the nominal leader or his band, which can mean that Sebastian is frequently a sideman on his own album, especially during a three-song Rachell mini-set near the album's end. No matter. The result is like a particularly enjoyable club date in which friends keep stumbling onstage from the bar to sing a verse or play a lick. In other words, the spirit of jug band music has been brought back to life. ~by William Ruhlmann

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Rory Block - A Woman's Soul: A Tribute To Bessie Smith

Year: 2018
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:06
Size: 101,9 MB
Styles: Semi-acoustic blues
Scans: Full

1. Do Your Duty (4:18)
2. Kitchen Man (4:00)
3. Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town (3:36)
4. Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer (3:46)
5. Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (3:20)
6. I'm Down In The Dumps (6:08)
7. Black Mountain (4:14)
8. Weeping Willow Blues (4:11)
9. On Revival Day (3:53)
10. Empty Bed Blues (6:35)

Five-time Blues Award winner Rory Block has released her latest album, "A Woman's Soul: A Tribute to Bessie Smith". She has put her vast musical talent to amazing use, creating important albums, full of purpose. So many of her albums have given us hours of powerful performances celebrating some of the founders of the blues, and her latest is no exception. Not only is Block more than up to the task of delivering material associated with the greats, she has an uncanny ability to capture the essence of the original while letting her own artistry shine through. Her voice comes with its own, instantly identifiable survivor’s rasp, and her guitar work is equally stunning.

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Rory Block - Last Fair Deal

File: MP3 @320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues
Time: 50:45
Size: 116,8 MB
Covers: Full

(3:01) 1. Gone Again
(3:43) 2. Sookie Sookie
(2:21) 3. County Farm Blues
(5:08) 4. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
(3:56) 5. Declare
(5:12) 6. Cry Out Loud
(2:53) 7. Amazing Grace
(3:02) 8. Traveling Riverside Blues
(6:02) 9. Mama's Stray Baby
(2:11) 10. Hallelu, Hallelu
(3:38) 11. Two Places at a Table
(2:06) 12. Awesome Love
(3:08) 13. Look What the Lord Has Done
(4:20) 14. Old Friends

Rory Block is one of the most restless and in-the-field artists in the history of contemporary blues. She has continually dug deeper into the muck and the mire of not only the blues but her personal life, emotionally, spiritually, amorously, and psychically, to bring out what is integral to the creation -- not re-creation -- of blues music. She has suffered, endured, and continued to make music that is not only compelling, but necessary for any accurate understanding of the cultural history of the blues tradition because she is perhaps the living female embodiment of it. Last Fair Deal is a record stripped of artifice or niceties. It is raw, feral, tender, sacred, sinful, lusty, and enlightening. On this recording, Block has assembled a collection of songs -- written, re-arranged, and restored -- that showcases the guitar as an extension of her physical and spiritual body. She writes in the liner notes that this is her tribute to the instrument that has seen her through the darkness, that she wanted the guitar to be an orchestra on its own. She succeeds in diamonds. Beginning with "Gone Again," and its opening roar of a Harley Davidson and her whip-smart slide playing becoming the timbre of the grain in her voice, the guitar becomes the poem, and her voice underlines, accents, and punctuates it. Block's agility and extension of blues form here is astonishing. Her slide work is effortless; it flies, stings, and stings. "Sookie Sookie" is a slide blues that rings with the same tension that John Fahey's best work did, but Block is more aggressive; she bends herself to the guitar's will. The lyrics delve deep into anger, brokenness, and the seeming impossibility of enduring love. But it is on Son House's "County Farm Blues," "Amazing Grace," and Robert Johnson's "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" and "Traveling Riverside Blues" that Block rips the lid off the blues: she hallows the tradition but turns it back on itself in her playing. Here are movements she's never made with her long, lithe hands on that neck. Digging deep into right-hand technique and allowing her left to sing at will, Block brings the archaic primitivism of the Delta into the 21st century like riding an unbroken horse -- but she leaves the wildness in. Block's own songs -- whether they be blues tunes such as gospel songs such as "Declare," folk songs such as "Cry Out Loud" or "Two Places at Table," combinations of virtually everything, such as "Awesome Love" -- stand as tall and tough as she does. They testify to the ferocity of a love so profound it can only be expressed as tenderness by a broken heart. Ultimately, this is the finest album of Block's long career, and yet it feels like a signpost of things to come. Last Fair Deal is potent, profound, medicine. -- Allmusic.

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Various Artists - Big Blues Extravaganza!

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:33
Size: 155,3 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Albert Collins - Travelin' South (4:39)
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Rock Me Baby (3:48)
3. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby (3:02)
4. Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band - Six Strings Down (4:16)
5. Lavelle White - I've Never Found A Man To Love (3:35)
6. Keb' Mo' - Tell Everybody I Know (3:31)
7. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Born In Louisiana (4:20)
8. Dr. John - Since I Fell For You (4:36)
9. Buddy Guy - Mary Had A Little Lamb (5:30)
10. Taj Mahal - Queen Bee (5:49)
11. Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon (6:14)
12. Rory Block - Big Road Blues (2:15)
13. W.C. Clark - Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away (5:31)
14. B.B. King - Night Life (6:17)
15. Delbert McClinton - Leap Of Faith (4:03)

As the third volume of Columbia's Austin City Limits series, this one shines the spotlight on the cornucopia of blues treasures from the show's rich history. The big tickets here include Lightnin' Hopkins' lion-in-winter performance of "Rock Me Baby" (complete with screeching wah-wah pedal), Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Love Struck Baby," his brother Jimmie's tribute to him on "Six Strings Down," Albert Collins' "Travelin' South," and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's "Born in Louisiana." Performances from Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', B.B. King, W.C. Clark, the Neville Brothers, Miss Lavelle White, Dr. John, Rory Block, and Delbert McClinton complete this excellent package. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

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Rory Block - When A Woman Gets The Blues

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:35
Size: 90,1 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Scans: Full

1. Preaching Blues (2:23)
2. Peavine Blues (3:34)
3. Joliet Bound (3:14)
4. Tallahatchie Blues (2:37)
5. I Let My Daddy Do That (2:13)
6. Be Ready When He Comes (2:32)
7. Hellhound On My Trail (2:37)
8. Sweet Sunny South (2:00)
9. Rowdy Blues (3:16)
10. Tain't Long For Day (1:50)
11. On The Wall (2:34)
12. Cypress Grove (3:26)
13. Take My Heart Again (2:55)
14. Railroadin' Some (3:19)

What does a woman do when she gets the blues? If she is blues wizard Rory Block, she gets out her guitar and starts singing and playing until her spirits lift. That is exactly what she does on this 1995 Rounder recording. The CD features her son, Jordan Block Valdina, on vocals with her, along with Annie Raines on harmonica and Warren Bernhardt on piano and harmonica.

Together, they reach back in time for some tried-and-true blues, as well as one original from the pen of the blues diva. "Take My Heart Away" is Block's own contribution to the recording, which won her a W.C. Handy award in 1996 for Best Traditional Blues Album. The jury was impressed with her form on songs that like Blind Willie McTell's "T'aint Long for Day," which sounds as fresh as when it was first recorded over half a century ago.

Block's unique voice shines on a cappella pieces, such as "Sweet Sunny South" and "Be Ready When He Comes." The latter is a beautiful gospel tune which finds mother and son harmonizing and trading leads. As sonorous and sweet as some of the cuts are, others are hard-driving country blues. Block gets in a scorching cover of Son House's "Preaching Blues" and turns plaintive on "Tallahatchie Blues" and "Peavine Blues," then bitter for "Joliet Blues." This is Rory Block at her best. /Sharon Witmer, AllMusic

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Rory Block - Shake 'Em on Down (A Tribute to Mississippi Fred McDowell)

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2011
Styles: Blues
Time: 50:27
Size: 116,0 MB
Covers: Full

(4:40) 1. Steady Freddy
(4:53) 2. Mississippi Man
(4:01) 3. Kokomo Blues
(5:16) 4. Good Morning Little School Girl
(4:53) 5. What's the Matter Now?
(4:15) 6. Shake 'Em on Down
(3:43) 7. Worried Mind
(3:40) 8. The Man That I'm Lovin’
(3:11) 9. Ancestral Home
(4:21) 10. The Breadline
(3:30) 11. Woke Up This Morning
(3:57) 12. Write Me a Few of Your Lines

When she paid tribute to Robert Johnson on her 2006 album The Lady and Mr. Johnson, Rory Block tried to replicate Johnson's style exactly. She was not so reverent on 2008's Blues Walkin' Like a Man, a tribute to Son House, and on the third album she considers part of her Mentor Series, she takes some creative license with Mississippi Fred McDowell on Shake ‘Em on Down. One difference is that she actually met House and McDowell, which seems to have freed her to take a more creative approach. She acknowledges that McDowell's driving, repetitive playing also served as a challenge, noting that he played more for dancing, intent on keeping a constant rhythm, than with any sense of virtuosity. And while she has counted the number of times a given figure might have been repeated in a particular performance of one of his songs, in her own versions she has added solo guitar lines to the basic riffs and also included other features, such as overdubbed vocal choruses. She also has written songs concerning McDowell, such as the leadoff track, "Steady Freddy," an imagined autobiography, and its successor, "Mississippi Man," her account of meeting the bluesman when she was 15. And she has adapted some of his songs, switching gender on "Good Morning Little School Girl" (which she acknowledges uneasily as being about "child predation") and "The Girl That I'm Lovin'." All of this is to say that she has applied a fan and scholar's attention as well as an artist's vision to McDowell and his work, demonstrating that a tribute requires both. -- Allmusic.

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Rory Block - Keepin' Outta Trouble: A Tribute To Bukka White

Size: 99,6 MB
Time: 42:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Keepin' Outta Trouble (4:04)
02. Bukka's Day (4:25)
03. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:19)
04. Fixin' To Die Blues (5:20)
05. Panama Limited (4:17)
06. Parchman Farm Blues (4:09)
07. Spooky Rhythm (3:58)
08. New Frisco Train (3:53)
09. Gonna Be Some Walkin' Done (3:02)
10. Back To Memphis (4:57)

Keepin' Outta Trouble is Rory Block’s sixth release in her “Mentor Series” that salutes the blues masters who’ve had a profound impact on her music. This time she pays tribute to Bukka White, one of the most influential country blues artists in history. She brings the soul and meaning of Bukka White’s songs to life, as if heard for the first time since they were written and performed by the man, himself. Rory Block is one of the most acclaimed acoustic blues artists. She has won five Blues Awards in the "Traditional Blues Female Artist" and "Acoustic Blues Album of the Year" categories.

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VA - BamFest 2007

Size: 134,5 MB
Time: 58:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Cash Box Kings - Sarah (3:57)
02 West Side Andy Glen Davis - See Saw Boogie (5:18)
03 Kraig Kenning - Katie May (5:51)
04 Eric Tessmer Band - The Reverse (3:52)
05 Rory Block - Preachin' Blues (2:18)
06 Rev Raven & The Chain Smokin' Altar Boys - I'm Your Honeyboy (5:44)
07 David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Talkin' Bout Robert (3:42)
08 David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Catfish Blues (3:51)
09 Michael Burks - Born Under A Bad Sign (9:22)
10 Ana Popovic - U Complete Me (9:07)
11 Johnny Winter - It's All Over Now (5:39)

Friday May 23, 2008 was the official release date of the Bam Fest (Bellville American Music Festival) 2007 Blues compilation CD. The CD was released on Sugar River Records in conjunction with Beau Geste Productions and Elabs Remote Productions of Madison Wi.
The 11 track CD was recorded by Elabs mobile recording unit on location at the Community Park in Bellville, WI. July 13-14th of 2007. Engineered by Jack LeTourneau. Produced by LeTourneau/Wilbourn Executive Producers Geoff Wilbourn & Whit Lehnberg of Beau Geste Productions.
The Bam Fest CD features legendary Blues artists Johnny Winter, David Honeyboy Edwards, as well as Anna Popovic, Rory Block, Eric Tessmer Band, Michael Burks, The Cashbox Kings, and more...

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Rory Block : Best Blues & Originals / Best Blues & Originals Volume 2

Rory Block (born Aurora Block, November 1949, New Jersey) grew up in Manhattan and she absorbed the influence of the folk music scene in Greenwich Village. First she studied classical guitar but Stefan Grossman introduced her to Mississippi Delta blues guitar players. She studied old songs and learned to play these songs. A teenager, she traveled to Berkeley, where she played clubs and coffeehouses. Block stopped playing to raise a family but returned into the music mid 1970s. She recorded albums for Blue Goose and Chrysalis without success until she signed with Rounder Records in 1981. She returned to the classic blues format of guitar and song, releasing numerous albums of original and traditional songs. Best Blues & Originals collects the highlights from Rory Block's '80s albums for Rounder, saving a bunch of fine tracks. It's a nice overview and, consequently, a solid introduction to her catalog.

Album: Best Blues & Originals
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1987
Styles: Blues
Time: 66:29
Size: 152,6 MB
Covers: Full

(2:25) 1. Walking Blues
(2:49) 2. Travelin' Blues
(2:24) 3. Got to Have You Be My Man
(3:40) 4. The Water Is Wide
(2:34) 5. Cross Road Blues
(3:54) 6. Ain't No Way to Do
(2:33) 7. Catastrophe Rag
(3:31) 8. Lovin' Fool
(3:25) 9. Sit Down on the Banks
(2:37) 10. God's Gift to Women
(4:48) 11. The Golden Vanity
(3:27) 12. El Vuelo del Alma (For Edgar)
(3:09) 13. Future Blues
(3:24) 14. M & O Blues
(0:46) 15. Foreign Lander
(3:26) 16. Moon's Going Down
(3:36) 17. Send the Man Back Home
(4:08) 18. Lovin' Whiskey
(5:21) 19. Gypsie Boy
(4:26) 20. Goin' Back to the Country

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Album: Best Blues & Originals Volume 2
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues
Time: 71:26
Size: 164,7 MB
Covers: Full

(2:39) 1. The Uncloudy Day
(2:24) 2. Devil Got My Man
(3:10) 3. Down in the Dumps
(2:20) 4. Since You Been Gone
(2:24) 5. Achin' Heart
(2:17) 6. Hilarity Rag
(3:17) 7. Kind Hearted Man
(2:57) 8. Love My Blues Away
(2:42) 9. Elder Green Is Gone
(3:33) 10. Just Like a Man
(3:02) 11. Swing Low
(4:49) 12. Ecstacy
(2:10) 13. Feel Just Like Going On
(2:28) 14. Frankie & Albert
(5:41) 15. No Place Like Home
(3:21) 16. Midnight Light
(2:56) 17. I Might Find a Way
(3:03) 18. Dr. Make It Right
(3:23) 19. No Way for Me to Get Along
(2:21) 20. Back to the Woods
(3:01) 21. I've Got a Rock in My Sock
(4:29) 22. Highland Overture (For Wendy)
(2:48) 23. Long Journey

Best Blues & Originals Vol 2
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Various - Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute To Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 66:14
Size: 151.6 MB
Styles: Gospel blues
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[4:01] 1. Joan Osborne With The Holmes Brothers - Nobody's Fault But Mine
[4:03] 2. Maria Muldaur With Bonnie Raitt - My Journey To The Sky
[5:07] 3. Toshi Reagon - Rock Me
[3:21] 4. Odetta With The Holmes Brothers - Two Little Fishes And Five Loaves Of Bread
[4:57] 5. Michelle Shocked - Strange Things Happening Every Day
[2:41] 6. Janis Ian - This Train
[3:00] 7. Marcia Ball - Shout, Sister, Shout!
[3:51] 8. Phoebe Snow - Beams Of Heaven (Feat. The Holmes Brothers)
[4:57] 9. Sweet Honey In The Rock - Precious Memories
[3:13] 10. Marcia Ball - I Want A Tall Skinny Papa
[4:22] 11. The Holmes Brothers - My Lord And I
[2:49] 12. Rory Block - Stand By Me
[3:44] 13. Maria Muldaur - Up Above My Head
[4:04] 14. Joanna Connor - Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend
[3:59] 15. Angela Strehli - That's All
[4:13] 16. Maria Muldaur - I Looked Down The Line (And I Wondered)
[3:43] 17. Marie Knight - Didn't It Rain

The music of the late Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of those buried treasures of Americana periodically exhumed to delight the previously unaware. Nominally a gospel singer, she was in fact a triple-threat performer: singer, guitarist, and composer. Of course, the respectful and tasteful covers by the all-female roster here reveal only Tharpe's compositional contributions. Festival staples like "This Train," sung by Janis Ian (with some snappy guitar picking of her own), and "Precious Memories," done in haunting but near tuneless fashion by Sweet Honey in the Rock, are joined by spirited renditions of lesser known Tharpe originals like "Beams of Heaven" (taken to church by Phoebe Snow) and "Up Above My Head" (Maria Muldaur). Other contributors like Victoria Williams, Rory Block, Odetta, and Michelle Shocked bring Tharpe's repertoire into their own stylistic realms. Tharpe's former singing partner Marie Knight most closely approaches the fervor of her late friend on "Didn't It Rain," with Jimmy Vivino hinting at Tharpe's guitar style. Thankfully the CD includes an MPEG of the Sister herself singing and rocking out on electric guitar with an energy unequaled elsewhere on the record. This video and her fascinating story as told by Gayle Wald in the extensive notes make Shout, Sister, Shout! a must-have. ~Michael Ross

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Rory Block - Hard Luck Child-A Tribute To Skip James

Released: 2014
Size: 104.4 MB
Time: 45:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Acoustic, Country Blues
Art: Front

1. Nehemiah James [5:30]
2. Special Rider Blues [4:59]
3. Cypress Grove Blues [4:29]
4. If You Haven't Any Hay, Get On Down The Road [4:21]
5. Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues [5:17]
6. Devil Got My Woman [4:44]
7. Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader [4:06]
8. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues [4:15]
9. I'm So Glad [3:19]
10. Hard Luck Child [4:30]

Rory Block is the most acclaimed female acoustic blues artist, with over 200,000 US scans.

On her fifth release in the acclaimed "Mentor Series" on Stony Plain Records, Rory pays tribute to Skip James, one of the most important country blues artists in history.

Rory actively tours internationally and each new CD is a high profile occasion in the blues community. The liner notes contain an excerpt from Block's autobiography, When A Woman Gets The Blues, in which she recalls visiting Skip James in hospital: "A hospital is no place to see a man this great.

He wandered about in a bathrobe. I think he smoked a cigarette. He never met our eyes but gazed downwards. I could feel his despair." On this album, Block captures the spirit of his greatness.

Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James

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Various - 2 albums: BamFest 2007 / BamFest Volume II

Album: BamFest 2007
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:45
Size: 134.5 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:57] 1. Cash Box Kings - Sarah
[5:16] 2. West Side Andy Glen Davis - See Saw Boogie
[5:52] 3. Kraig Kenning - Katie May
[3:52] 4. The Eric Tessmer Band - The Reverse
[2:18] 5. Rory Block - Preachin' Blues
[5:45] 6. Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin' Altar Boys - I'm Your Honeyboy
[3:40] 7. David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Talkin' 'bout Robert
[3:52] 8. David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Catfish Blues
[9:21] 9. Michael Burks - Born Under A Bad Sign
[9:08] 10. Ana Popovic - Complete Me
[5:38] 11. Johnny Winter - It's All Over Now

The 11 track CD was recorded by Elabs mobile recording unit on location at the Community Park in Bellville, WI. July 13-14th of 2007. Engineered/produced by Jack LeTourneau with Executive Producers Geoff Wilbourn & Whit Lehnberg of Beau Geste Productions. The Bam Fest CD features legendary Blues artists Johnny Winter, David Honeyboy Edwards, as well as Anna Popovic, Rory Block, Eric Tessmer Band, Michael Burks, The Cashbox Kings, and more...

The concept behind this was to take songs from each artist but have it play with the continuity of a live show. I hope we achieved that and you enjoy. ~Geoff

BamFest 2007

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Album: BamFest Vol II: Gulf Relief
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 66:37
Size: 152.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[5:40] 1. Larry McCray - Get Your Blues On
[4:33] 2. Birddog & Friends - I Know the Reason
[4:07] 3. Chris Duarte - Let's Have a Party
[4:20] 4. Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Worried Blues
[6:00] 5. Bobby Messano - Holdin' Ground
[9:33] 6. Wayne Baker Brooks - Sooner or Later
[5:26] 7. Sonny Landreth - Blue Tarp Blues
[8:22] 8. Sonny Landreth - Back to Bayou Teche
[3:49] 9. Robben Ford - Lateral Climb
[8:35] 10. Jeremy Spencer - Bitter Lemon
[6:06] 11. Jeremy Spencer - Psychic Waste

"BamFest Volume 2: Gulf Relief" is one of those rare chances to feed your head AND your heart at the same time. With Jeremy Spencer, Robben Ford, Sonny Landreth, Wayne Baker Brooks, Bobby Messano, Eric Sardinas and Big Motor, Chris Duarte Group, Larry McCray Band and Bird Dog and Friends doing the cooking, your mind is filled as your ears funnel in some of the best Blues music in the world. Your heart is not left hungry, knowing that the 11 live tracks were recorded to support the Gulf Coast and the City of New Orleans.

BamFest Vol II: Gulf Relief

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