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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Eight Classic Albums (4-CD)

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Tharpe, Sister Rosetta - Eight Classic Albums (4-CD) CD 1
01 THROW OUT THE LIFE LINE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
02 BLESSED ASSURANCE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
03 ROCK OF AGES Sister Rosetta Tharpe
04 IN THE GARDEN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
05 LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING Sister Rosetta Tharpe
06 THERE’S A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
07 WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS Sister Rosetta Tharpe
08 AMAZING GRACE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
09 BECAUSE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10 MARRIAGE PROLOGUE & BENEDICTION 510 Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11 WEDDING CEREMONY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
12 GOSPEL TRAIN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
13 THANK YOU JESUS Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14 GOD DON’T LIKE IT Sister Rosetta Tharpe
15 SO HIGH Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta - Eight Classic Albums (4-CD) CD 2
01 JERICHO Sister Rosetta Tharpe
02 WHEN THEY RING THE GOLDEN BELLS Sister Rosetta Tharpe
03 TWO LITTLE FISHES, FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
04 BEAMS OF HEAVEN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
05 CAN’T NO GRAVE HOLD MY BODY DOWN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
06 ALL ALONE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
07 UP ABOVE MY HEAD THERE’S MUSIC IN THE AIR Sister Rosetta Tharpe
08 I SHALL KNOW HIM Sister Rosetta Tharpe
09 FLY AWAY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10 HOW ABOUT YOU Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11 PRECIOUS MEMORIES Sister Rosetta Tharpe
12 99 ½ WON’T DO Sister Rosetta Tharpe
13 ONE MORNING SOON Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14 THE LORD’S PRAYER Sister Rosetta Tharpe
15 IT’S ME Sister Rosetta Tharpe
16 STEAL AWAY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
17 BRING BACK THOSE HAPPY DAYS Sister Rosetta Tharpe
18 SAVIOUR DON’T PASS ME BY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
19 I HAVE GOOD NEWS TO BRING Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20 GO GET THE WATER Sister Rosetta Tharpe
21 THINGS THAT I USED TO DO (AND I DON’T DO NO MORE) Sister Rosetta Tharpe
22 DIDN’T IT RAIN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
23 BEAMS OF HEAVEN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta - Eight Classic Albums (4-CD) CD 3
01 IF I CAN HELP SOMEBODY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
02 WALK ALL OVER GOD’S HEAVEN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
03 I BELIEVE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
04 TAKE MY HAND PRECIOUS LORD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
05 FAITH Sister Rosetta Tharpe
06 TWELVE GATES Sister Rosetta Tharpe
07 I COULDN’T HEAR NOBODY PRAY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
08 HE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
09 IF YOU BELIEVE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10 LIGHT A CANDLE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11 BLESS THIS HOUSE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
12 WITHOUT HIM Sister Rosetta Tharpe
13 NOTHING BETWEEN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14 HE’S THE LILY OF THE VALLEY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
15 SEEKING FOR ME Sister Rosetta Tharpe
16 SHINE FOR JESUS Sister Rosetta Tharpe
17 NEVER ALONE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
18 I DO, DON’T YOU Sister Rosetta Tharpe
19 GOD LEAD US ALONG Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20 FAMILY PRAYER Sister Rosetta Tharpe
21 WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN HEAVEN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
22 I SAW THE LIGHT Sister Rosetta Tharpe
23 BLOW YE THE TRUMPET OF ZION Sister Rosetta Tharpe
24 OH, THE JOY THAT CAME TO ME Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta - Eight Classic Albums (4-CD) CD 4
01 I CAN’T SIT DOWN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
02 HE’S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS Sister Rosetta Tharpe
03 VACATION IN THE SKY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
04 DIDN’T IT RAIN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
05 CAN’T NO GRAVE HOLD MY BODY DOWN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
06 TWO LITTLE FISHES, FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
07 THE GOSPEL TRAIN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
08 PRECIOUS LORD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
09 DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10 MANSION IN THE SKY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11 IS EVERYBODY HAPPY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
12 PEACE IN THE VALLEY Sister Rosetta Tharpe
13 JOY IN THIS LAND Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14 GOD IS WONDERFUL Sister Rosetta Tharpe
15 JUST KEEP STILL Sister Rosetta Tharpe
16 EVERYTHING TO ME Sister Rosetta Tharpe
17 TAKE A LOOK (INTO THAT OLD BIBLE) Sister Rosetta Tharpe
18 LOOK IN THE GOOD BOOK BROTHER Sister Rosetta Tharpe
19 WITH HIS GREAT LOVE Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20 AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP Sister Rosetta Tharpe
21 THERE’S A HAND LEADING ME Sister Rosetta Tharpe
22 FAITH IN GOD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
23 WOMAN Sister Rosetta Tharpe
24 THE LONESOME ROAD Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Talk about underappreciated pioneers: Sister Rosetta Tharpe broke so... more
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Talk about underappreciated pioneers: Sister Rosetta Tharpe broke so much ground that it boggles the mind. With an apparent lack of concern about the possible consequences, she defiantly crossed over from the gospel field to secular stardom and back again, her earthy vocal style clicking in both idioms. Tharpe introduced sanctified music to the patrons of Harlem's Cotton Club, sang with the orchestras of Cab Calloway and Lucky Millinder, and played some of the era's toughest lead guitar, whether on acoustic or electric models.

Born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas on March 20, 1915, she hit the road with her mother, traveling evangelist Katie Bell Nubin, the pair settling in Chicago at age six.  Rosetta's youth was largely spent singing church music (she was briefly married to a pastor named Thorpe in 1934, later changing her surname to Tharpe). She moved to New York in 1936, and in '38 regaled the sinners at the Cotton Club with her uplifting numbers. That move earned Tharpe a recording contract almost immediately with Decca, where she laid down such seminal spirituals as Rock Me, That's All, and This Train, her guitar always integral to her rousing presentation.

Intriguingly, Rosetta saw no harm in waxing blues such as Trouble In Mind or the ribald I Want A Tall Skinny Papa. Her biggest hit for Decca came in the spring of 1945 with the stomping Strange Things Happening Every Day, a #2 R&B smash boasting a bristling Tharpe guitar solo soaked in blues that anticipated the rock and roll revolution still a decade in the future. Backing pianist Sam Price was a Texas blues veteran in his own right (bassist Abe Bolar and drummer Harold 'Doc' West rounded out his trio on the September 22, 1944 New York date).

The flamboyant Tharpe drew 25,000 paying customers to her 1951 wedding ceremony and donned luxurious mink coats later in her career, when she wielded a white solid body electric guitar and tore it up. She died October 9, 1973 following a stroke, her monumental contributions as the earliest sanctified-to-secular crossover star and a blistering lead guitarist to boot all too often overlooked.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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