Monday, May 22, 2017
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
I knew her only as a name when I was young. A kind of show-off name, indicating that one was really knowledgeable about early rock 'n roll. I don't think I heard her mentioned in my Jesus Freak days, though you'd think she would have been in a Larry Norman or Phil Keaggy context. I didn't know any more of her until a few years ago, when I happened upon the 1964 "Didn't It Rain" in an English train station. I saw immediately that she was one of those seminal rockers. There are four parts to the documentary, of which the above is the first.
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LINK, AVI; we NEED a LINK.
It may be removed because of copyright, though there's nothing about that posted. If it doesn't stick this time I'll do it differently.
Wife and I went to Dairy Queen for dinner, saw a poster advertising ARRIVAL (first R is backwards), "Canada's ABBA Tribute Band". I thought you should be warned. (We're not going to see them.)
Maybe not seminal (code for frankly derivative), yet oddly endearing and undeniably talented, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...Joanna Connor. She is tremendous.
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