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Sister Rosetta Tharpe at Decca Records with her mother Katie Bell holding her guitar in 1941. Charles Peterson photo.
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It’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s birthday! Let’s all listen to some sweet electric guitar riffs and thank the Godmother of Rock and Roll for making it happen.
March 20, 1915 - October 9, 1973
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We give the Protestants shit for being swagless, but I like to think they spent a few hundred years concentrating their swag into Sister Rosetta Tharpe. It was like a swag spirit bomb so one pentascostal could invent rock n' roll.
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Count Basie.