Born sixty years ago, Rory Block has worthy become the most valuable standard of pre-war blues This album is a tribute to great Son House, where Rory performs thirteen songs coming from this Mississippi blues icon, she personally knew in 1964 when she was only fifteen and that old bluesman already was sixty two They met at New York Greenwich Village and since then on, they became deep friends with a respectful mutual admiration Rory Block learned many things of this rural blues expert, but also from many other country artists such as Robert Johnson, Charley Patton or Sam Chatmon, which made her become the most effective roots blues ambassador The cd gathers some beautiful pearls with amazing superb slide guitar details Great John B Sebastian (former The Lovin’ Spoonful band leader) on harp contributes to round up this honest sincere very emotional record