​Rory Block (from the album Heavy on the Blues

​Rory Block (from the album Heavy on the Blues

​Rory Block (from the album Heavy on the Blues available on M.C. Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
For her debut outing on M.C. Records, Rory Block leans on the genre that she has carried from album to album since her 1975 debut. Heavy on the Blues, her recent release, showcases the guitar talents of Rory as well as welcoming in the electric six-string playing of three top guitarists in the Blues trade, Ronnie Earl, Joanna Connor, and Jimmy Vivino.  Heavy on the Blues puts on “Hi Heel Sneakers” to open the album as it heads way down South to the Delta for “Mississippi Blues” and kicks up dust with “Down the Dirt Road Blues” while Rory Block confesses “Can’t Quit That Stuff’ and shares the story of “Me and My Chauffer Blues”.
Rory Block crossed paths with future legends when she hung out in her father’s NYC sandal shop, meeting and learning from artists such as John Sebastian, Maria Muldaur, and Peter Rowan. She began playing guitar at age ten, entering the recording studio two years later to back her father’s ensemble, The Elektra String Band Project. She visited the Rev. Gary Davis in the Bronx before hitting the road at fifteen years old to travel to the American South and study at the feet of Blues legends Skip White and Mississippi John Hurt (her biggest influence). Heavy on the Blues benefits from a lifelong immersed in the genre with Rory Block singing of her time put-in for “Stay Around a Little Longer” as she partners with the slide guitar of Ronnie Earl for “Walking the Back Streets”, dosing Jimi Hendrix’s “The Wind Cries Mary” with the Blues alongside Joanna Connor, and ponders “What Kind of Woman is This” with Jimmy Vivino. (by Danny McCloskey)
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