Driven by Block’s soulful and fiery guitar/vocal attack and her impeccable rhythmic sense, From the Dust merges distinctive original material from her own pen with timeless classics from some of the great bluesmen of the early and mid-twentieth century. The result is a stripped-down recording — unfettered by extraneous instrumentation or superfluous arrangements — that reaches into the core of the human experience and bears witness to it in the most honest and intimate way possible. Included in the sequence are a quartet of Delta blues classics that showcase Block’s mastery of the old masters. Throughout Charley Patton’s `Highwater Everywhere,´ Muddy Waters’ `I Be Bound,´ Robert Johnson’s `Stones in My Passway´ and Son House’s `Dry Spell Blues,´ her visceral connection to the Delta blues tradition is undeniable.