CONTEMPORARY GUITAR BLUES
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Rory Block started playing guitar at the age of ten and made her first recordings backing her fiddle playing father two years later. She was born in Princeton; NJ but grew up in Manhattan where her father had a sandle shop in Greenwich Village, where musicians like Bob Dylan, Maria Muldaur and John Sebastian all played concerts. As well as playing with her father, Rory was soon taking part in the jam sessions in an around the Village including the now legendary Sunday afternoon concerts in Washington Square Park. In New York she had lessons from Gary Davis and became friends with the legendary Son House. She also befriended Skip James and had lessons in Washington from Mississippi John Hurt. Since then she has been the W.C. Handy winning artist four times: twice as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year and twice for the Best Acoustic Blues Album of the Year. Her album “Best Blues and Originals” was a huge success in Europe and “Last Fair Deal”, published last year is a masterpiece. Rory Block imbues the vivacity and universality of the original country blues with her deep awareness of modern culture, with passion and sensibility she has created her own music that has become that of our contemporary world.
