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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock and Roll
A gospel superstar, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) combined traditional gospel music with virtuoso guitar solos on her Gibson SG to create a groundbreaking sound that would ...
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“When you hear that rock and roll thing, it really kind of comes from her”: A lost and previously unheard live recording of rock ’n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe ...
A lost recording of Sister Rosetta Tharpe playing live in Limoges, France, in 1966 has been recovered and restored by Zev Feldman, the so-called ‘Indiana Jones of Jazz’, who is releasing a ...