Rory Block, Last Fair Deal - 50m 46s

Tracks & Durations

1. Gone Again	3:01
2. Sookie Sookie	3:43
3. Country Farm Blues	2:21
4. Last Fair Deal Gone Down	5:08
5. Declare	3:56
6. Cry Out Loud	5:12
7. Amazing Grace	2:53
8. Traveling Riverside Blues	3:02
9. Mama's Stray Baby	6:02
10. Hallelu, Hallelu	2:11
11. Two Places At A Table	3:38
12. Awesome Love	2:06
13. Look What The Lord Has Done	3:08
14. Old Friends	4:19

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Review

A veteran blueswoman, Rory Block proves herself both a traditionalist and an explorer through this selection of blues classics, spiritual standards, and original material with a kindred spirit. She pays homage to her musical roots with impeccable renditions of songs associated with her late mentor Son House ("County Farm Blues") and his prize pupil Robert Johnson ("Last Fair Deal Gone Down," "Traveling Riverside Blues"). Yet she takes considerable liberties with the album's instrumental centerpiece, an all but unrecognizable version of the familiar "Amazing Grace," which here recalls Leo Kottke's aural adventurousness rather than the hymnal. The original "Declare" (inspired by the Bible's Book of Job) and the traditional "Hallelu, Hallelu" both find Block multi-tracking her vocals into the call-and-response of a full gospel choir, while "Cry Out Loud" and "Mama's Stray Baby" reflect the folkier strains of her artistry. An acoustic guitarist with a stinging slide and an understated virtuosity, she's more concerned with deep grooves than hot licks. --Don McLeese

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