Aurora "Rory" Block has staked her claim to be one of America's top acoustic blues women, an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers, a slide guitarist par excellence, and also a talented songwriter on her own account. Born and raised in Manhattan by a family that had bohemian leanings, she spent her formative years hanging out with musicians like Peter Rowan , John Sebastian , and Geoff Muldaur , who hung out in her father's sandal shop, before picking up the guitar at the age of ten. Her ...more