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How Sister Rosetta gets them rolling

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 to Elvis Presley. What I mean is there's something essentially secular about Sister Rosetta's appearance on the stage.

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