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DoorWay | 
| Artist: Ron Block
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.98
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 89513
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 610587
UPC: 011661058729
EAN: 0011661058729
ASIN: B000PAU2VM
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Tracks:
| • | The Kind of Love | | • | Along the Way | | • | Love's Living Through Me When I Do | | • | Things Aren't Always As They Seem | | • | Be Assured | | • | DoorWay | | • | Above the Line | | • | The Blackness of the Need | | • | Flame | | • | Secret of the Woods | | • | I See Thee Nevermore | | • | Someone |
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Album Description
DoorWay is the second solo album by Ron Block, the fifteen-year veteran guitarist/banjoist/vocalist/songwriter of Alison Krauss and Union Station. Boasting an all-star lineup featuring Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Jerry Douglas, Barry Bales, Adam Steffey, Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, Suzanne and Sidney Cox, Homer, Lisa, and Lori Forbes, and others, DoorWay is a set of intensely moving and personal songs of faith written to bring encouragement to the deepest longings of the spirit - a beautiful and rewarding glimpse inside the human heart.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Great variety October 24, 2008
T. Nelson
Good album. I really like the variety of styles. Creative. Very satisfying. Vocal quality is OK. Lyrics, arrangements, instrumental work, are all excellent!
 Christian Blues Rock From Great Writer December 20, 2007
J. Howell (Anaheim, California)
This CD is full of very good songs. It is one of those that almost every song is good. It is intelligent and the ambience created by the blues is very real. I enjoyed this CD, although it is not my favorite, I do recommend it because the sound is very soothing. It is also melodic with great guitar riffs, it is something you can get into. I recommend listening to it if you like softer and emotionally touching music. It is uplifting and soft at the same time. It's a nice CD.
Speaks to the heart October 2, 2007
Natalie M. Skutlin (PA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Door Way" is truly a passageway that opens into wisdom and light. Each song is a different room where one discovers something new every time he or she enters. I've been excited about Ron's new release for a long time and it by far exceeded my expectations. Several of the songs have a mystical melody with lyrics that speak to the heart of a marriage to Christ. All of the songs on this CD are deeply personal and they contain promises and revelations that cast out the demons of fear and doubt. Ron's voice is rich and compelling. This CD ministers to me and if you are seeking to know yourself as Christ knows you, it will minister to you as well.
DoorWay, Reviews, and CS Lewis August 23, 2007
Anodos (USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The highly positive reviews of DoorWay from Billboard Magazine, Performing Songwriter, Barnes and Noble, Dallas Morning News, Christian Music Today, and many other high-level publications are on Ron's site, RonBlock dot com, under "About" and then "Press".
Regarding reviews: Several of these Amazon reviewers had preconceived notions about what kind of recording Ron should do. They were expecting and wanting a bluegrass recording. They fail as reviewers, because their pre-judgments get in the way of actually hearing the music and lyrics. "I expected bluegrass, and it isn't. I'm disappointed." That isn't a record review; it's a statement of the reviewer's own expectation and disappointment (this happens quite often on Amazon and other review sites). They fail as reviewers because they did not first hear the work as it is, listening for the kind of record the artist is trying to make, and then evaluating only after careful listening.
If these reviewers were truly cognizant of the varied types of music Ron Block plays in Alison Krauss and Union Station, and what kinds of songs he writes, and what sorts of music he listens to and is influenced by, they would have easily formed different expectations. Ron finger picks guitar, plays electric guitar, banjo, and does the acoustic guitar leads on the non-bluegrass songs in AKUS. He writes many of the gospel songs, and a few bluegrass songs. Anyone with any knowledge of his history would recognize the type of record he is probably going to make.
CS Lewis, in An Experiment in Criticism, says that in order to truly evaluate a work we must first receive it without judgment, without evaluation, much as a child reads a book or listens to music - with no preconceived notions about what it ought to be, just taking it in for what it is. Without this childlike reception of a work of art, the review will be merely the reflection of our own likes and dislikes, and will contribute nothing to an understanding of the work.
Taken for what it is, DoorWay is a musical statement of faith about relying on God no matter how bad the circumstance appears. Lyrically and musically it is an honest autobiographical account of of a Christian abandoning self-effort and finding that reliance on the indwelling Spirit of Christ is the source of true strength. Anyone that takes the time to listen deeply and well - before evaluating - will find this to be true.
 Too much of the same thing August 22, 2007
Carl E. Feather (KINGSVILLE, OH USA)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just about every song sounds like the last one, just a different genre version. I wish Ron would stick with one genre, such as bluegrass, rather than trying to run the gamut.
This album sounds an awful like his first one.
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