Rory Block: Ain’t Nobody Worried-A Tribute To Bob Dylan

Best known for her rural blues guitar work, Rory Block takes a return to her early days in Greenwich Village to give her interpretation of the early recordings of neighbor Bobby Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. Her  selection of material is quite the thing, with tunes like “Mr. Tambourine Man”, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”, “Positively 4th Street” and “Like a Rolling Stone” kind of expected, and Block gives earnest pickings, strumming and even gritty vocals hinting at Dylan. The real nice feature are the obscurities, such as the 20 minute opus “Murder Most Foul” with Block turning the lights down low, the voice to a leathered hush and the feel of a street corner preacher. Likewise, she rasps out “Everything Is Broken” and agonizes out “Not Dark Yet” like a minstrel of the dawn, spewing out lines line venom. When’s she going to do his Christian albums?

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