Bonnie Raitt said, 'Rory Block has been an inspiration to me since we started out years ago. Her guitar playing, singing and songwriting are some of the most soulful in traditional and modern blues.' This is Rory at her blues best here! On this outstanding 1991 release, she pays tribute to the great musicians who have always been her source of inspiration: Robert Johnson, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Bessie Smith, and others. Several are 'originals' (but stylistically culled from lots of rural blues material), and others are her personal renditions of songs she has heard and studied. This recording should answer her most-often-asked question, 'How come a young white girl from NYC was drawn to the blues music of the black rural south of the 1930's?'

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