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Rory Block Releasing Skip James Tribute Next Month

09/29/2014
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(The Blues) Rory Block will launch her latest album Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James on October 21 via Stony Plain Records. It's the fifth release in the award-winning acoustic artist's Mentor Series, and includes nine James tracks plus original piece Nehemiah James.

Block recalls meeting the man himself when she was 15: "Some people have described Skip as melancholy, even unfriendly. But in my eyes he was deep, soulful, and beautiful.

"I did not question his serious demeanor - after all, I was aware of the history, the horrors and evil treatment he had endured. I did not expect him or any other rediscovered blues player to be anything but serious."

She continues: "Skip James was the quintessential blues player. He had it all: style, power, grace, depth- the ability to change your life and your way of experiencing the world with a single song." Read more here.

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