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

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Rock Me - The Revelation 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 Revelation 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 Revelation Series (CD) CD 1
0199 1/2 Won't DoSister Rosetta Tharpe
02Rock MeSister Rosetta Tharpe
03Look Awy In The Heavenly LandSister Rosetta Tharpe
04All AloneSister Rosetta Tharpe
05Let It ShineSister Rosetta Tharpe
06Can't Do Wrong And Get BySister Rosetta Tharpe
07CalvarySister Rosetta Tharpe
08What Is The Soul Of A ManSister Rosetta Tharpe
09That's AllSister Rosetta Tharpe
10Have A Little Talk With JesusSister Rosetta Tharpe
11Jesus Is Here To StaySister Rosetta Tharpe
12He's The Lilly Of The ValleySister Rosetta Tharpe
13Didn't It RainSister Rosetta Tharpe
14I Can't Sit DownSister Rosetta Tharpe
15In The GardenSister Rosetta Tharpe
16Stand The StormSister Rosetta Tharpe
17The Natural FactsSister Rosetta Tharpe
18Let's Be HappySister Rosetta Tharpe
19Strange Things Happen Every DaySister Rosetta Tharpe
20Let's Go OnSister Rosetta Tharpe
21Smile It ThroughSister Rosetta Tharpe
22Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves Of BreadSister Rosetta Tharpe
23Up Above My HeadSister Rosetta Tharpe
24I Can't Sit DownMarie & Rex
25This TrainSister Rosetta Tharpe
26God Is WonderfulSister Rosetta Tharpe
27On My Way (Got On My Travelin' Shoes)Sister Rosetta Tharpe
28Bring Back Those Happy DaysSister Rosetta Tharpe
29That's AllSister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Hier ist eine Pionierin, die nie ausreichend gewürdigt wurde:... more
"Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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 Papaaufzunehmen. 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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