TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Rory Block
Rory Block
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1916
Rory Block Album Rankings
1
This was the most blues-oriented release of the three sessions Block issued in 1989 for Rounder; it was also the most concentrated and successful.
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2
There's a wonderful sense of communication with children, particularly mid-childhood. Ages four to five.
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3
Best Blues & Originalscollects the highlights from Rory Block's '80s albums for Rounder, saving a bunch of fine tracks from otherwise spotty releases.
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4
Rory Block sings and plays the country blues like an Oklahoma whirlwind kicks up the dust. She's a force of nature that needs to be reckoned with.
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5
After listening to the opening track of I'm Every Woman, one might be inclined to expect 45 minutes of acoustic blues to follow.
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9
Block bounced all over the musical lot on this session. She did vintage folk tunes such as "Frankie and Johnny" effectively and covered Rev.
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10
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.
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12
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 le
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13
Rory Block is quite impressive. Ignoring the fact that she is a white woman singing older-style blues in the 1990s, Block compares favorably to many of the top country-blues artists of the 1930s.
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14
Rory Block's 11th album marked both a personal and professional milestone. Now a thoroughly experienced singer, Block sounded much more confident and assured doing traditional blues tunes.
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15
Block moves completely away from the blues form on this release, doing original pieces that evoke the familiar themes of alienation, anguish and romantic conflicts, but in a production climate geared
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16
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.
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17
After establishing her blues credentials with the traditional "Mississippi Bottom Blues," Rory Block turns to a set of original folk-rock songs on which she is joined by a band and such guests as Dav
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19
Those who adore Block's work as a preservationist in reinterpreting classic Delta blues from the '20s and '30s will delight in this outing, another return to her solo acoustic roots.
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22
It's hard to talk about Rory Block 's music -- even after 15 records -- without talking about her gender and race, since so few white women play the Delta blues.
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