Sister Rosetta Tharpe collection [1996-2011]

 

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. She attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and electric guitar that was extremely important to the origins of rock and roll. She was the first great recording star of gospel music and among the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll audiences, later being referred to as "the original soul sister" and "the Godmother of rock and roll". She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.

 

1996 - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order [Document Records] (3 CD) 

1998 - Complete Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 1 (1938-1943) (2 CD) 

2000 - Complete Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol.2 (1943-1947) (2 CD) 

2003 - Complete Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol.3 (1947-1951) (2 CD) 

2005 - Complete Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 4 (1951-1953) (2 CD) 

2005 - From Blues To Gospel (2 CD) 

2005 - Gospel Train 

2005 - The Original Soul Sister - (4 CD) 

2007 - Gospel Feeling - Live at the Hot Club de France 

2008 - Complete Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Vol. 5 (1953-1957) (2 CD) 

2011 - Complete Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Vol. 6 (1958-1959) (2 CD)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-6 [FLAC]

 

Alongside Willie Mae Ford Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is widely acclaimed among the greatest Sanctified gospel singers of her generation; a flamboyant performer whose music often flirted with the blues and swing, she was also one of the most controversial talents of her day, shocking purists with her leap into the secular market -- by playing nightclubs and theaters, she not only pushed spiritual music into the mainstream, but in the process also helped pioneer the rise of pop-gospel. Tharpe was born March 20, 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas; the daughter of Katie Bell Nubin, a traveling missionary and shouter in the classic gospel tradition known throughout the circuit as "Mother Bell," she was a prodigy, mastering the guitar by the age of six. At the same time, she attended Holiness conventions alongside her mother, performing renditions of songs including "The Day Is Past and Gone" and "I Looked Down the Line."