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Confessions of a Blues Singer

album by Rory Block

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ5160014 ↗
Source-derived summary

Confessions of a Blues Singer is a blues album by Rory Block. It was released in 1998 through Rounder Records.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Confessions of a Blues Singer” as album by Rory Block. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Confessions, Blues and Singer.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Confessions, Blues and Singer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Confessions of a Blues Singer”, the useful work is to connect “album by Rory Block” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5160014. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Confessions of a Blues Singer”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Confessions of a Blues Singer primary sources, Confessions of a Blues Singer archive and Confessions research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Confessions of a Blues Singer”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Confessions of a Blues Singer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.