Sister Rosetta Tharpe Rock Me - The Salvation Series (CD)

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1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 74 min.... more

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Rock Me - The Salvation Series (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 74 min.

Following the well-received Bear Family Records® vinyl reissue of the Savoy classic Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Precious Memories, BAF18055, our team offers a CD jam-packed with rocking, soul-shaking gospel music: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock Me. The compilation focuses on up-tempo numbers featuring Rosetta’s fierce guitar acrobatics, and on the variety of musical styles she delivered with ease and authority from the 1940s to the 1960s.

You know the old media-made competition of the Beatles and the Stones: Sister Rosetta Tharpe experienced the same thing with Mahalia Jackson. Whereas Jackson was very traditional and angelic, Broadway raised Tharpe trailblazed her way through the conservative 1950s by employing every style the popular music of the day offered.

Included in this set are songs backed by country guitar legend Grady Martin, a duet with crossover country crooner Red Foley, and a duet with her long-time partner and protégé Marie Knight. Madame Knight is also featured with her rhumba version of “Calvary,” backed by Sister Rosetta on guitar. You have outright Pentecostal stomps such as “On My Way Now (Got On My Travelin’ Shoes),” alongside the calypso of “Let’s Be Happy” (complete with a faux Caribbean accent). Also included are her hits, “This Train,” “That’s All,” “Rock Me,” and “Didn’t It Rain.” The outstanding “Strange Things Happening Every Day” was one of Carl Perkins’ all-time favorites and heavily influenced his picking. The song had a lasting impact on all the aspiring young dudes like Presley, Cash, and Jerry Lee.

Trailing over all tracks included is Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s ferocious guitar - equally powerful as the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho. Whether she played a National Triolian at John Hammond’s legendary show From Spirituals to Swing at Carnegie Hall in 1938, or a distorted Gibson Les Paul during her 1960 tour of Europe, her passionate delivery produced one of the wildest guitar sounds of the era. And yes, her powerful, soul-cleansing voice lifts you up throughout the 74 Minutes of Heavenly Joy on BCD17665 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock Me.

The release includes liner notes from Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber and a foreword by Scottish musician and book author Saskia Holling.

- A compilation of lesser-known greats framed by the hits you all cherish

- All songs feature her ferocious guitar playing supporting the title “Godmother of Rock and Roll”

- Extensive liner notes by Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber and a provocative foreword by Saskia Holling

- Sensitive sound restoration from the best sources

- Highly diversified collection featuring several styles (including duets with Red Foley and Marie Knight)

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Interpret: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Album titlle: Rock Me - The Salvation Series (CD)
Label Bear Family Records
Genre Gospel
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127176653
weight in Kg 0.115

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta - Rock Me - The Salvation Series (CD) CD 1
01	99 1/2 Won't Do	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
02	Rock Me	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
03	Look Awy In The Heavenly Land	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
04	All Alone	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
05	Let It Shine	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
06	Can't Do Wrong And Get By	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
07	Calvary	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
08	What Is The Soul Of A Man	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
09	That's All	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10	Have A Little Talk With Jesus	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11	Jesus Is Here To Stay	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
12	He's The Lilly Of The Valley	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
13	Didn't It Rain	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14	I Can't Sit Down	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
15	In The Garden	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
16	Stand The Storm	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
17	The Natural Facts	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
18	Let's Be Happy	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
19	Strange Things Happen Every Day	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20	Let's Go On	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
21	Smile It Through	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
22	Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves Of Bread	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
23	Up Above My Head	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
24	I Can't Sit Down	Marie & Rex
25	This Train	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
26	God Is Wonderful	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
27	On My Way (Got On My Travelin' Shoes)	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
28	Bring Back Those Happy Days	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
29	That's All	Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Hier ist eine Pionierin, die nie ausreichend gewürdigt wurde: Sister Rosetta Tharpe schlug erstaunlich viele neue Wege ein. Offensichtlich ohne sich um die Konsequenzen zu scheren, wechselte sie eigensinnig von der Gospelszene zu weltlichem Ruhm und wieder zurück, wobei ihr erdiger Gesangsstil in beiden Bereichen begeisterte. Tharpe brachte erstmals religiöse Musik zu den Besuchern des Cotton Club in Harlem, sang mit den Orchestern von Cab Calloway und Lucky Millinder und spielte eine der toughesten Leadgitarren ihrer Zeit, egal ob auf einem akustischen oder elektrischen Modell.

Als Rosetta Nubin am 20. März 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, geboren, ging sie mit ihrer Mutter, der reisenden Evangelistin Katie Bell Nubin, auf Tour; als Rosetta sechs war, ließen sich die beiden in Chicago nieder. Ihre Jugend verbrachte sie hauptsächlich mit dem Singen von Kirchenmusik – 1934 war sie kurz mit einem Pastor namens Thorpe verheiratet und änderte ihren Nachnamen später in Tharpe. 1936 zog sie nach New York, wo sie 1938 die Sünder im Cotton Club mit ihren erbaulichen Songs unterhielt. Dieser Schritt verschaffte Tharpe fast unmittelbar danach einen Plattenvertrag mit Decca, für die sie solch richtungsweisende Spirituals wie Rock Me, That's All und This Train einspielte, wobei die Gitarre immer ein wesentlicher Teil ihrer mitreißenden Darbietungen war.

Offensichtlich hatte Rosetta kein Problem damit, nebenher Bluestitel wie Trouble In Mind oder das schlüpfrige I Want A Tall Skinny Papa aufzunehmen. Ihr größter Hit für Decca kam im Frühjahr 1945 mit dem stampfenden Strange Things Happening Every Day, ein Nr.-2-R&B-Bestseller mit einem scharfen bluesgetränkten Gitarrensolo von Tharpe, das die Rock'n'Roll-Revolution um ein Jahrzehnt vorwegnahm. Ihr Begleitpianist war Sam Price, selbst ein Bluesveteran aus Texas (das Trio wurde an diesem Aufnahmetag in New York am 22. September 1944 von Bassist Abe Bolar und Drummer Harold 'Doc' West komplettiert).

Die extravagante Tharpe zog 25.000 zahlende Gäste zu ihrer Hochzeitszeremonie 1951 an und trug später in ihrer Karriere feinste Nerzmäntel, als sie mit einer weißen Solid Body E-Gitarre auftrat und das Publikum begeisterte. Sie starb am 9. Oktober 1973 nach einem Schlaganfall; ihr richtungweisender Beitrag als erster vom Gospel zum R&B gewechselter Crossover-Star und als glühend heiße Leadgitarristin wird viel zu oft übersehen.

- Bill Dahl -
Chicago, Illinois

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