Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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How Sister Rosetta gets them rolling
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 9 May 1964
THEY CALL her the Holy Roller. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is indeed a holy lady but she does roll in a way that would do credit ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Rosetta Nubin, 20 March 1915, Cotton Plant, Arkansas, USA, d. 9 October 1973, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
Profile by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, June 2008
SISTER ROSETTA Tharpe was born in a Mississippi delta cotton farm in 1915. ...
Blue-Singing Gospel Girls: Aretha and her Forebears
Book Excerpt by Anthony Heilbut, 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much' (Knopf), June 2012
AMONG THE SEVERAL MYTHS Aretha's father Reverend C. L. Franklin incarnated was a familiar type, Reverend Eatemup, the man with pastoral appetites in food and ...
The Folk Blues and Gospel Caravan, 1964
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blues, April 2014
LEGEND HOLDS that on October 22, 1962, a van set out from London, headed north. In that van were Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian ...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock'n'Roll
Retrospective by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 18 March 2015
She could outplay Chuck. She could outsing Aretha. And she influenced everyone from Elvis to Rod. Richard Williams revisits the songs and sufferings of the ...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Hymn to Her
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, May 2018
THE GODMOTHER of Rock'n'Roll, the Original Soul Sister, the First Lady of Rock are just some of the epithets posthumously bestowed on Sister Rosetta Tharpe ...
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