milkandheavysugar:“Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now.
milkandheavysugar:“Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now. Her pioneering guitar virtuosity was fueled by the gospel swinging, shouting, holy-spirit energy of the evangelical church and the blues she heard on Chicago’s Maxwell Street, which crossed each other like crackling live wires in her hands – and boom, we’re at the beginning of the revolution that would later be widely and wrongly attributed, almost entirely, to the white teens and young men who emulated her.“ - Cheryl Pawelski -- source link
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