RARE GUITAR GOSPEL 78 SISTER ROSETTA THARPE ROCK ME/LONESOME ROAD BRUNS 02737 E+
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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC GOSPEL 78 FROM SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
? 2:50? 2:50Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock Me
Born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, she began performing at age four, billed as "Little Rosetta Nubin, the singing and guitar playing miracle", accompanying her mother, Church of God in Christ (COGIC) evangelist Katie Bell Nubin, who played mandolin and preached at tent revivals throughout the South. Exposed to both blues and jazz both in the South and after her family moved to Chicago in the late 1920s, she played blues and jazz in private, while performing gospel music in public settings. Her unique style reflected those secular influences: she bent notes the way that jazz artists did and picked guitar like Memphis Minnie.
Rosetta also crossed over to secular music in other ways. After marrying COGIC preacher Thomas Thorpe (from which "Tharpe" is a misspelling) in 1934 and moving to New York City, she recorded four sides with Decca Records backed by "Lucky" Millinder's jazz orchestra. Her records caused an immediate furor: many churchgoers were shocked by the mixture of sacred and secular music, but secular audiences loved them. Appearances in John Hammond's 1938 extravaganza "From Spirituals To Swing", at the Cotton Club and Café Society and with Cab Calloway and Benny Goodman made her even more popular. Songs like "This Train" and "Rock Me", which combined gospel themes with bouncy up-tempo arrangements, became smash hits among audiences with little previous exposure to gospel music.
ABOUT THIS RECORD:-
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
Vocal with Guitar accomp.
UK BRUNSWICK 02737 (1939) 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
A SIDE:- ROCK ME
B SIDE:- LONESOME ROAD
Condition = EX+
A Really Great Sister Rosetta Tharpe 78 in REALLY EXCELLENT Condition !
DON'T MISS OUT !
DON'T LEAVE IT TOO LATE - BID NOW!
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