Sister Rosetta Tharpe Gospel Train (LP, clear Vinyl, Ltd.)

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Gospel Train (LP, clear Vinyl, Ltd.)

(Destination Moon Records) 12 tracks, clear vinyl, limited edition.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is often called "the Godmother of Rock and Roll" because of her pioneering guitar technique, use of distortion and reverb, and a 1963 tour with Muddy Waters in the UK that is cited as a major influence by Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Jeff Beck.

Gospel Train, released in 1956, is one of her best albums and a great introduction to her rocking gospel guitar style and powerful voice. With the poignant opener "Jericho" and the stomping closing track "99 1 / 2 Won't Do," this is a gospel album that will get your body moving in an almost sacrilegious way.

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Interpret: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Album titlle: Gospel Train (LP, clear Vinyl, Ltd.)
Genre Gospel
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
Label Destination Moon Records
EAN: 8055515234046
weight in Kg 0.23

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta - Gospel Train (LP, clear Vinyl, Ltd.) LP 1
01	Jericho	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
02	When They Ring The Golden Bell	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 1/2 Won't Do	Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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"Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

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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