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Rory Block's Home Concert Series Live
When Aurora “Rory” Block was fourteen she was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. She was introduced to the music of the Mississippi Delta by Stefan Grossman. She made it her business to learn directly from Mississippi John Hurt, the Reverend Gary Davis, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White and Skip James. She recorded for Elektra, RCA, Blue Goose, Chrysalis, Rounder, Rykodisc and Telarc
Block signed with Stony Plain Records in 2008 and started her “Mentor Series” paying tribute to those six Delta Blues masters that she met in person and who deeply influenced her. During her career Block has recorded thirty-six albums, won 6 Blues Music Awards, and has received twenty-six Blues Music Award nominations.
In 2018 Block started a new series for Stony Plain honoring the “Power Women of the Blues” by releasing “A Woman’s Soul: A Tribute to Bessie Smith”; resulting in her winning her sixth Blues Music Award as 2019’s “Acoustic Artist of the Year”. On “Prove It On Me” Block “decided to celebrate some of the great female artists who were not as well-known as Bessie Smith with the obvious exception of Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie” and introduces us to “women who got lost in the rewriting of a musical history that figuratively buried some of the best female singers of the 1920’s and ‘30’s”.
The album is co-produced by Block and her husband Rob Davis.