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Rory Block

Presented by Kennett Flash at Kennett Flash

June 5, 2010

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LEGENDARY ACOUSTIC BLUES ARTIST Rory is probably the greatest living acoustic blues artist on tour today. Along the way, she has won five W.C. Handy Awards (now known simply as Blues Awards) from the Blues Foundation, two for "Best Traditional Blues Female Artist," and three for "Acoustic Blues Album of the Year," the most recent just last year. She's earned a gold record in Holland, and toured from one end of the United States to the other end of Canada, not to mention Poland and Norway and Italy and a half a dozen more European countries. Everywhere she plays, audiences are touched by the depth of her commitment to her music; Critical plaudits follow the applause: The New York Times put it plainly enough: "Her playing is perfect, her singing otherworldly as she wrestles with ghosts, shadows and legends." And Guitar Extra, a publication that knows what it speaks about, added: "Rory Block has become one of the world's most important preservers of the roots of American music. She has become a national treasure in the form of an uncompromising mature blues artist."