vaike Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Rory Block - Shake 'Em on Down (2011) EAC Rip | Flac(tracks) - cue - log | 296 MB | 1 CD | Covers Genre: Blues When she paid tribute to Robert Johnson on her 2006 album The Lady and Mr. Johnson, Rory Block tried to replicate Johnson's style exactly. She was not so reverent on 2008's Blues Walkin' Like a Man, a tribute to Son House, and on the third album she considers part of her Mentor Series, she takes some creative license with Mississippi Fred McDowell on Shake ?Em on Down. One difference is that she actually met House and McDowell, which seems to have freed her to take a more creative approach. She acknowledges that McDowell's driving, repetitive playing also served as a challenge, noting that he played more for dancing, intent on keeping a constant rhythm, than with any sense of virtuosity. And while she has counted the number of times a given figure might have been repeated in a particular performance of one of his songs, in her own versions she has added solo guitar lines to the basic riffs and also included other features, such as overdubbed vocal choruses. She also has written songs concerning McDowell, such as the leadoff track, "Steady Freddy," an imagined autobiography, and its successor, "Mississippi Man," her account of meeting the bluesman when she was 15. And she has adapted some of his songs, switching gender on "Good Morning Little School Girl" (which she acknowledges uneasily as being about "child predation") and "The Girl That I'm Lovin'." All of this is to say that she has applied a fan and scholar's attention as well as an artist's vision to McDowell and his work, demonstrating that a tribute requires both. Tracklisting: 1.Steady Freddy (4:40) 2.Mississippi Man (4:53) 3.Kokomo Blues (4:01) 4.Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (5:16) 5.What's the Matter Now (4:53) 6.Shake 'Em on Down (4:15) 7.Worried Mind (3:43) 8.The Man That I'm Lovin' (3:40) 9.Ancestral Home (3:11) 10.The Breadline (4:21) 11.Wake Up This Morning (3:30) 12.Write Me a Few of Your Lines (3:59) Download album: (4% Recovery) Filesonic http://filesonic.com/file/1109292764/0528a RoryBlock.part1.rarhttp://filesonic.com/file/1109278114/0528a RoryBlock.part2.rar Download from fileserve.com http://www.fileserve.com/file/rXrzMnK/0528a_RoryBlock.part1.rarhttp://www.fileserve.com/file/2kWWhkY/0528a_RoryBlock.part2.rar Download from uploadstation.com http://www.uploadstation.com/file/ujHmmwf/0528a_RoryBlock.part1.rarhttp://www.uploadstation.com/file/yaeGkdw/0528a_RoryBlock.part2.rar Download from wupload.com http://www.wupload.com/file/6163053/0528a_RoryBlock.part1.rarhttp://www.wupload.com/file/6163120/0528a_RoryBlock.part2.rar Download from uploading.com http://uploading.com/files/9e37a824/0528a_RoryBlock.part1.rarhttp://uploading.com/files/c4c36e95/0528a_RoryBlock.part2.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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