Release Date: 13 October 2008
Label: Stony Plain
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 772532132923
Genres: Blues
Description
This album recreates and reinterprets the music of the father of the delta blues.
Rory Block was 15 years old when she met Son House. Two improbable people. A young teenage Greenwich Village guitar prodigy and an older black man, 62, who had recorded nine of the most powerful blues pieces ever for the Paramount label in 1930.
Years later, she recalled the moment: "Backstage at the Village Gate in 1965 Son House virtually radiated a golden light. As I watched him perform, rolling his head back, slamming the strings and almost choking on the intensity, I learned a deep lesson about the power of the music which became an inseparable part of me."
Now, more than 40 years later, the guitarist has paid Son House an ultimate tribute: a collection of 13 songs associated with the legendary blues singer. Rory Block's life-long involvement with the blues has reached a new high point with this release.
Eric Bibb
Eric Bibb
Maria Muldaur With Tuba Skinny
Taj Mahal
Duke Robillard
Rory Block
Sue Foley
Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters
Rory Block
Rory Block
Rory Block
Rory Block
Rory Block
Rory Block
40 Years Of Stony Plain Record
Rory Block
