Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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The Godmother of Rock & Roll - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
There was a 60min documentary about Sister Rosetta Tharpe on telly just over a week ago. I ripped it and uploaded it to Megaupload for anyone who wants it - a 257MB version and a 1.01GB version (higher quality):

LO-RES VERSION [257MB]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TF9XB4NZ

HI-RES VERSION [1.01GB split into two rar files]
part1 [700MB]- http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GTAWU0RF
part2 [300MB]- http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FW2LL37N

(NB: If Megaupload says "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable" then just try again every 10 minutes or so. The file will eventually become available.)

During the 40s, 50s and 60s Sister Rosetta Tharpe played a highly significant role in the creation of rock & roll, inspiring musicians like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. She may not be a household name, but this flamboyant African-American gospel singing superstar, with her spectacular virtuosity on the newly-electrified guitar, was one of the most influential popular musicians of the 20th century. Tharpe was born in 1915, close to the Mississippi in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. At the age of six she was taken by her evangelist mother Katie Bell to Chicago to join Roberts Temple, Church of God in Christ, where she developed her distinctive style of singing and guitar playing. At the age of 23 she left the church and went to New York to join the world of show business, signing with Decca Records. For the following 30 years she performed extensively to packed houses in the USA and subsequently Europe, before her death in 1973. In 2008 the state governor of Pennsylvania declared that henceforth January 11th will be Sister Rosetta Tharpe Day in recognition of her remarkable musical legacy.

Up Above My Head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ
Down By the Riverside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk
Didn't It Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7lN1R2LP-4
Trouble In My mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRm4K7NZm0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dq7vFuvpf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZDQ3twfo44
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you wonderful person! thank you!
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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Holy crap I've only just noticed this - thank you so much this is gonna be awesome!!!
and through wax seals and padlocks...a hand through my ribcage...past the choking I saw palms and fingers grasping shoulders...collarbone...crushing...I imagined myself hacking desperately at a sea of appendages...freeing myself like a butcher...
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At last!! It was her in Back To The Future?? That always stuck with me
Brilliant
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“my journey to the sky” is carrying me through today

https://youtu.be/k8QAhVWGRkw
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sonic124 wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:17 am At last!! It was her in Back To The Future?? That always stuck with me
Brilliant
Only 12 years late noticing/replying to this... she was in Back to the Future? What?
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