#sister rosetta tharpe

[beggars-opera]

It’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s birthday! Let’s all listen to some sweet electric guitar riffs and thank the Godmother of Rock and Roll for making it happen.

March 20, 1915 - October 9, 1973

#music #sister rosetta tharpe #history

[undergroundrockpress]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Count Basie.

#blues #Sister Rosetta Tharpe #Count Basie #1940s #legends

[sbrown82]

Black Women of Rock & Roll in the 60s and 70s:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Marsha Hunt

The Ronettes

Betty Davis

Norma-Jean Wofford a.k.a “The Duchess”

Poly Styrene

Merry Clayton

Tina Turner

#black women #black girls #black girls rock #music #black music #rock & roll #rock music #sister rosetta tharpe #marsha hunt #the ronettes #betty davis #the duchess #poly styrene #x ray spex #merry clayton #tina turner #singer #guitarist #1960s #1970s #60s #70s #black culture #black beauty #black history #music history #vintage #retro #gifs #sbrown82

[blackexcellencestv]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - 1964 (Mother of Rock and Roll)

#black excellence #music #black history #sister rosetta tharpe

[twacn]

For the Spotify wrapped thing: #11 and Hermie the Unworthy?

Something something breaking the 4th wall something something the 4th wall breaking you

-> "spotify wrapped numbers + character" for art prompts are still open ^^

#hermie the unworthy #dndads #dungeons and daddies #my art #spotify wrapped #sister rosetta tharpe #dndads spoilers #dndads season 2 #dndads s2 #Oakworthy #<- kinda? Heart eyes for normal ly #Eyestrain #tw eyestrain

[malinastharlock]

Happy Women's History Month and International Women's day. Here's a little bit of women's history.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe aka "The Godmother of Rock and Roll". She was born in 1915 in Arkansas and started performing gospel music with her mother at a young age. She later became famous for her electric guitar playing and her fusion of gospel, blues, jazz and swing. She influenced many rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

#history #historical #history facts #arts #moment #women's history month #international women's day #sister rosetta tharpe #rock n roll history

[robotpussy]

Disclaimer:

This is part of a series of polls I want to make. This set of musicians are those who were making rock music prior to the late 1970s/1980s, (That is why artists like Prince and Tina Turner are not featured on here). As well as this not including subgenres of rock like punk, metal, funk rock and so forth.

I also just wanted to make this so I could probably get some suggestions on BLACK musicians that made rock music. It's not a contest, I just want to see which musicians some people like and for this to be a way for people to discover them.

Other Polls:

Punk

Metal

Randomly selected musicians in rock

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[thecreativemillennial]

#sister rosetta tharpe #blues #gospel music #rhythm and blues #jazz #rock and roll #tina turner #rock music #r & b #soul music #pop music #ike and tina turner #funk rock #marsha hunt #betty davis #funk music #labelle #progressive soul #women who rock #women of color #afro punk

[eyesaremosaics]

Let’s give the true creator of rock and roll— Sister Rosetta Tharpe her flowers!

#sister rosetta tharpe #godmother of rock and roll #music history #black history #women’s history #rock and roll

[queerasfact]

Happy Rosetta Tharpe Day!

Known as the godmother of rock and roll, Rosetta Tharpe had her first hit song in 1938 and continued to perform almost up until her death in 1973.  Her fame brought the music of her black, working-class gospel church to the world. Her sound - especially her distinctive guitar-playing - was a pioneering influence on men like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Chuck Berry.

When Rosetta passed away in October 1973, she was buried in an unmarked grave. It wasn’t until 2007 the Professor of English Gayle Wald published a biography of Rosetta, and the following year instigated fundraising for a marker on Rosetta's grave. Funds were raised through a concert featuring many of Rosetta’s friends, including her musical partner Marie Knight, who may have also been her lover.

The day of that concert - January 11th - is now celebrated as Rosetta Tharpe day, honouring her enourmous contribution to the development of rock-and-roll and modern music as we know it.

Check out our podcast to learn more about Rosetta

[Image: Rosetta Tharpe, a young woman, smiling and holding a guitar]

#rosetta tharpe #sister rosetta tharpe #queer history #lgbt history #lgbtq #black history #women's history #queer

[jedivoodoochile]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Children of Legend.

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[twixnmix]

Ads for Club Riviera in St. Louis

Luis Russell / Sister Rosetta Tharpe (January 1945)

Billie Holliday (January 21-28, 1950)

Cab Calloway (January 1, 1951)

Duke Ellington (January 12-19, 1952)

Louis Jordan (May 4-12, 1956) / Count Basie (May 18, 1956)

Dinah Washington (June 26-28, 1956) / Little Richard (July 20-21, 1956)

Ike Turner (May 25, 1957)

Little Willie John (June 20-22, 1957)

Ray Charles (January 10-11, 1958)

B.B. King (August 22-32, 1958)

Jackie Wilson (February 26-27, 1960)

Etta James & Elmore James ( April 30, 1960)

Bobby "Blue Bland / Little Jr. Parker (April 7, 1961)

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[nathanaelrosssmith]

Sister Rosetta

#sister rosetta tharpe #illustration #drawing #art #mid century illustration #mid century style #mid century art

[thechanelmuse]

Black American Music Month

• ELIZABETH “LIBBA” COTTEN - She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93. Not to mention she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.

• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE- The “Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She helped shape modern popular music, was one of the few Black female guitarists to ever find commercial success and the first artist to blend gospel with the secular.

• ODETTA HOLMES - Known as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” In 1963, she sang for the masses on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

• PEGGY JONES - Nicknamed “Lady Bo” played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band. Sometimes called the “Queen Mother of Guitar.”

• LIZZIE “MEMPHIS MINNIE” DOUGLAS - Known as the “Queen of the Blues,” was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Her title stems from her legacy of successfully recording music across four decades as well as being the lone female voice in a male dominated blues scene.

• NORMA JEAN WOFFORD - Nicknamed “The Duchess” by Bo Diddley, she was the second female guitarist in Diddley's backing band.

• ALGIA MAE HINTON - She was widely recognized as a master picker and buckdancer in the Piedmont styles. She would often play her guitar behind her head while buck dancing.

• ETTA BAKER - She was a Piedmont blues/folk guitarist and singer who began playing the guitar at age 3. Taught by her father, long-time Piedmont player Boone Reid, Etta played 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitar, and 5-string banjo. She was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the southern piedmont after the turn of the century.

• JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL - A legend of hill country blues guitar. She grew up in a lineage of familial fife-and-drums bands from northern Mississippi, rose to popularity in the mid-1980s and had a fruitful career during which she performed around the globe, traveling mostly on her own. She played in open tunings and, having started as a drummer, had a percussive guitar style that included slapping and banging the instrument. She would also tie a tambourine around her calf, which, together with her strumming-and-drumming guitar work, gave her performance the sound of a one-woman-band.

• BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS - One part soul singer, one part rockin' roadhouse mama, and one part gifted songwriter. She's been chronically under-recorded for a woman with her résumé, performing with the likes of James Brown, Ray Charles and Otis Redding. She didn’t record her first album until she was 60. Her blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved nickname “Guitar.” She gon’ put on a show:

One more for good measure:

• WILLIE MAE “BIG MAMA” THORNTON - Also referred to as “The Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She was a blues singer, songwriter, self-taught drummer, and harmonica player. She was the first to record "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. She also helped to shape the sound and style of “Texas-blues,” an evolving blues sub-genre known to incorporate swing and big band elements.

#black american music month #elizabeth cotten #elizabeth libba cotten #sister rosetta tharpe #odetta holmes #peggy jones #memphis minnie #norma jean wofford #algia mae hinton #etta baker #jessie mae hemphill #beverly guitar watkins #big mama thornton #black american musicians

[rockabillyzombiefreak]

Godmother of Rock and Roll

#sister rosetta tharpe

[musickickztoo]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe  † October 9, 1973

#sister rosetta tharpe #october 9