# Block Magazine > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Block_Magazine > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Block_Magazine.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Magazine > Source revision: 1342456132 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|African-American community publication}} {{Citations|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox Magazine | title = Block Magazine | image_file = | editor = Rien Wisse | frequency = Quarterly | category = Music, blues | company = | founded = 1975 | country = The Netherlands | circulation = | website = [http://www.blockmagazine.nl/ Blockmagazine.nl] | issn = }} thumb|150px|Rien and his wife Marion Wisse (1986) thumb|150px|Rien Wisse and Bobby Bland (1994) '''''BLOCK Magazine''''' is a quarterly magazine about the [African-American](/source/African-American) [blues](/source/blues) tradition. It is the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands)' oldest blues periodical. The magazine was founded in [Almelo](/source/Almelo), in the east of the Netherlands in 1975,{{cite book|author=Edward Komara|title=Encyclopedia of the Blues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-w-uGwm_LhcC&pg=PA757|accessdate=7 July 2016|year=2006|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92699-7|page=756}} by Rien and Marion Wisse. They frequently tour the [United States](/source/United_States) and visit record companies and artists. They have interviewed more than 200 blues artists, including [Solomon Burke](/source/Solomon_Burke), [Robert Cray](/source/Robert_Cray), [Bo Diddley](/source/Bo_Diddley), [Al Green](/source/Al_Green), and [Zora Young](/source/Zora_Young). Rien and Marion own a collection of approximately 30,000 blues related images. In 1995, they produced the acoustic CD ''No Less Than Wireless'', containing recordings by Maybe It's The Blues, The Taildraggers, Greyhound and Champagne Charlie. In January 2010, ''Block Magazine'' received the KBA (Keeping the Blues Alive) Award from the [Blues Foundation](/source/Blues_Foundation) in the category of Print Media.{{citation needed|date=December 2009}} According to the board of the Blues Foundation: Print Media: ''Block'', Netherlands: "What began as a small fan magazine in 1975 has grown into one of Europe’s finest blues magazines. ''Block'', an amalgam of blues and rock, was first published 35 years ago by Rien Wisse and his wife Marion in the Netherlands. Like most of these efforts, the magazine is mostly financed by their love of the blues and their own money. In 1982, Rien dropped rock coverage and turned ''Block'' into THE Dutch blues magazine. The magazine is published four times a year and features articles written by American blues journalists like Bill Dahl, [Dick Shurman](/source/Dick_Shurman) and Scott Bock. The beautiful photos are part of ''Block''’s 30,000 photo file which dates back to its early days. Finally, its 64 pages concentrate on profiles, reviews of records and performances, and the Wisse’s travels throughout the American blues landscape."{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.blockmagazine.nl Block Magazine.nl], magazine's official website * [http://www.blues.org The Blues Foundation] * [http://www.timholekblues.ca/ "About Tim Holek".] Category:1975 establishments in the Netherlands Category:Blues music magazines Category:Music magazines published in the Netherlands Category:Dutch-language magazines Category:Magazines established in 1975 Category:Quarterly magazines published in the Netherlands --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Block Magazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Magazine) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Magazine?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.