Rory Block plays "Crossroad Blues"

The country blues guitar legend Rory Block performs her take on Robert Johnson's "Crossroad Blues." From the newly released DVD "Guitar Artistry of Rory Block." More info at http://www.guitarvideos.com/products/vestapol-dvds/guitar-artistry-of-rory-block

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Music

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• rory
• block
• country
• blues
• guitar
• slide
• fingerpicking
• delta
• robert
• johnson
• stefan
• grossman

[explosivejohnny]

WAY better that crapton :)

[Lynxsec]

@busessuck1 FUCK!!!!!

[VlastaStevanovich]

@explosivejohnny Clapton sings better :)

[mollysangelique]

not,alone,but,i,watched,voice,­original,number,winner,contest­?????????

[thorpypoo]

Very good.

[shreklookalike]

@getkristan You're welcome. Rory has had quite an amazing life and a she's very open and down-to-earth person. She's both "skillful" and "artistic" as she can perform these accurate-to-a-T covers, but she's also written a number of beautiful songs of her own. I remember watching her perform in a tiny little venue in Pittsfield, MA back in the early 1980s and being totally spellbound.

[getkristan]

@shreklookalike Interesting!  Thanks for the factoid.

[shreklookalike]

@shreklookalike That being said, It doesn't matter to me whether I hear a note-true version or an interpretive cover as long as they're played with skill and show respect to the original.

[shreklookalike]

@getkristan In her autobiograpy "When A Woman Gets the Blues", Rory Block explains her reason for doing note-true covers of Robert Johnson's material is that she looks upon it as a form of Classical music. She feels it's her duty to perform it as written for the same reason that orchestral musicians play the scores of Handel or Bach without deviation.

[vanessarocklane]

truchisima 

[IpCrackle]

@getkristan great point! Skill is the note true covers and art is the remake. I definitely agree, someone should beable to play something like it was written before remaking it. If I'd be allowed to use myself as an example, I learned to play Elvis'/Crudup's "That's All Right Mama" as recorded before making a jazzy piano take on it. there are some stupid cases where people merely make simplified versions of songs and try and make them out as "a new twist on it." Really, it's just a lack of twist