Rory Block
USA
Born: 06 November 1949
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Blues
Styles: Contemporary Blues, Acoustic Blues, Electric Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues
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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 record debut came two years later, backing her father...
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