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Sister Rosetta Tharpe Documentary I'm throwing myself into this lady's music these days, and I loved everything I heard so far.
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Wow. Just seeing this. She sure played some mean guitar. I watched a clip of her a while back singing "Down by the Riverside". | |
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Queen of the Gibson SG Custom. "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Her guitar playing is SO moving and so distinctive.
The moment I got hooked was when I watched Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger, the opening credit with her singing Precious Memories hit me like a brick. She recorded this song SO many times, I finally found it in an album she recorded later in her career titled as the same song, I was FLOORED, esp by the last song in the album; This Train.
I could hear this plucking anywhere now, and I'd know who played it. | |
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Guitar Player did a wonderul write up about Sister Tharpe two years ago. If I can retrieve the article from my digital subcription, I'll send it you Harle. Take a close listen to her guitar playing, some of the earlyist chords... building blocks of Rock & Roll guitar.
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Ms Trina, those links are not opening for some reason.
Stumbled on this Carnegie Hall performance from 1938(Why did folks lie about Lady Day being the 1st black artist to perform there? [Edited 2/5/12 15:31pm] | |
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) Anyway, only her guitar and Albert Ammons' piano, PERFECT combination and it sounded like a whole band. I've been playing the hell outta this set lately,,,,
A gospel, rock and roll, soul, blues, female rock, pioneer right here... and she wasn't even trying. That guitar didn't come from "the devil". | |
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That guitar came from heaven | |
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I've always respected Ms. Tharpe
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