Rory Block - Gone Woman Blues: Country Blues Collection
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Artist: Rory BlockBrand: Block Products
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-03-11
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Big Road Blues
- Preaching Blues
- Joliet Bound
- Maggie Campbell
- Hellhound On My Trail
- Bye Bye Blues
- Gone Woman Blues
- Peavine Blues
- Rolling Log
- I Let My Daddy Do That
- Tallahatchie Blues
- Tain't Long Fo Day
- Terraplane Blues
- Come On In My Kitchen
- Be Ready When He Comes
- Cypress Grove
- Railroadin' Some
- Hawkins Blues
- Cool Drink Of Water
- Do Your Duty
- Rowdy Blues
- On The Wall
- Devil Got My Man
- Take My Heart Again
Free Music Notes for Gone Woman Blues: Country Blues Collection
Free Music Review: I'd Rather Be The Devil That Be A Woman To That Man
Hit: 5 Stars
I owe Rory Block one. Here is why. During the recently completed misbegotten American presidential campaign season I took more heat that one could shake a stick at for using the title of one of country blues master Skip James' songs, "I'd Rather Be A Devil That To Be That Woman's Man", for some political blogs that I wrote in regard to the Hillary Clinton Democratic Party candidacy. For months I took it on the chin from my feminist friends as exhibiting some form of latent hostility to women, especially women candidates for president. (By the way, that was a totally false accusation. I would have been more than willing to vote for Victoria Woodhull on the Woman's Equality ticket in 1872.) There one day I remembered through the mist of time singer/songwriter Rory Block's change up rendition of the James' classic which forms the headline to this entry. Thanks, Rory.
But more than that, thanks for this great album of country blues classics some famous, some a little obscure and known only to serious aficionados but all well worth placing in the album with the quirky little Rory Block treatment that makes many of the songs her own. Oh, did I also mention her virtuoso strong guitar playing. Well, that too. I have gone on and on elsewhere in this space about the old time women blues singers, mostly black, like Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey and Ida Cox. I have also spilled some ink on more modern, mainly white, women blues singers like Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur and a local talent here in Boston, Les Sampou, and their admirable (and necessary) efforts to carry on this proud tradition. Rory belongs right up there with these women.
But, enough homage. You get the drift. So what is good here? Of course the above-mentioned tune (named "Devil Got My Man" here). Thanks, again Rory. A couple of nice covers of the legendary Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues' and "Hellhound On My Trail". I have mentioned in reviewing Johnson's work that his vocals are reedy and thin. Here Rory gives full-bodied treatment to the songs. Of course one must pay respects, as well, to her own CD title track "Gone Woman Blues".
A couple of other Skip James tunes also deserve mention, "Be Ready When He Comes" (remember Skip turned to preaching after his very short first blues career) and "Cypress Grove". Ms. Block also does a very sexy version of Hattie Hart's double entendre "I Let My Daddy Do That". Here is the kicker though. Bessie Smith made "Do Your Duty" rattle the house back in the day. I like Rory's cover better. That, my friends, is high praise indeed as I was practically spoon-fed on Bessie back in my youth.
Gone Woman Blues: Country Blues Collection Poster
No Description Available.Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-MAR-1997
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