HEAVY ON THE BLUES

Rory Block. M.C. Records.

Seven-time Blues Music Award winner Rory Block has been doing a deep dive into archives in recent years, underscoring the contributions of blues greats that came before her.

She has done admirable tribute albums to Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Bukka White, and Bessie Smith, to name a few, and she has underscored forgotten contributions of blues women from the past, as well.

I had mixed feelings about her 2024 release, Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan, a project that seemed like it had promise because of her Greenwich Village background, but ultimately wasn’t a great match for her particular skill set. Her crossover to Dylan’s style of 1960s folk was a bit awkward.

But

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