The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred, 2024 Edition
The Best of the Rest: Fifty albums that made life worth living in 2024. Blues, bluegrass, Classical, jazz, classic pop, gospel in the house.
Rory Block
In Heavy Rotation: Really the Blues
A quintet of impressive new blues albums from seasoned vets.
DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, 2022
Honors for 2022 go to JOHN PRIMER, MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY & RYAN MURPHEY, RORY BLOCK, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES and six others.
She’ll Take You There
RORY BLOCK returns in celebration of "power women of song" on AIN'T NOBODY WORRIED--a thoroughly captivating outpouring of signature songs by female artists from the '60s through the '80sl
The Elite Half-Hundred of 2020, Part 1
THE ELITE HALF-HUNDRED OF 2020, Parts 1 and 2, is topped by the REV. LUTHER BARNES and THE RESTORATION WORSHIP CENTER CHOIR’s LOOK TO THE HILLS.
‘I Just Can’t Let Us Forget’
Continuing her 'lifetime retrospective' project, RORY BLOCK pays glorious tribute to some outstanding female blues artists of yore, some undeservedly obscure..but no longer so.
The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred of 2018, Pt. 1
Part 1 of the Deep Roots Elie-Half Hundred of 2018 features ROGER MCGUINN, MELODY GARDOT, RORY BLOCK, RODNEY CROWELL, et al.
The Elite Half Hundred of 2016, Part 2
Albums 26 through 50 in Part 2 of the Elite Half Hundred of 2016
Summoning Bukka
RORY BLOCK continues her Mentor Series with a scintillating tribute to a perennially underrated Delta blues man in KEEPIN' OUTTA TROUBLE: A TRIBUTE TO BUKKA WHITE
The Elite Half Hundred of 2014 (Part 2)
THE 442s and FARMER JASON bookend Nos. 26-50 of the ELITE HALF HUNDRED OF 2014.