Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Trouble in mind 

In wet weather, no less - which messed with her tuning but it just don't matter - only makes it better, really!

Screw Janice Joplin on this song!!! Gimme Sister Rosetta anyday of the week!

I have been thinking the same, since I found her. Working on a new playlist. Check it out, featuring S sister Rosetta

I have been thinking the same, since I found her. Working on a new playlist. Check it out, featuring S sister Rosetta

I have been thinking the same, since I found her. Working on a new playlist. Check it out, featuring S sister Rosetta

I have been thinking the same, since I found her. Working on a new playlist. Check it out, featuring S sister Rosetta

The pioneers. The foundation of everything. The KINGS and QUEENS

Agree musicians today can’t hold a candle to Rosetta. Today’s stars are pampered and travel in luxury. She pioneered when blacks were no even allowed to drink out of same water fountain as whites. She did not make the money stars do today. She was and still is a star. .

Amen to that justified

That’s because they had to rely on their talent as musicians and singers. They didn’t have to have a white smile, good hair and flashing lights to cover up the fact they ain’t got no talent, like todays “singers”...

Ok boomer

First of all, do you not realize this performance is *in* england. Second off all, if the british wave never happened, the greats like sister rosetta wouldve been forgotten to a great degree. Blues in america was becoming obsolete and forgotten until the brits started obsessing over it, learning to play it, and exposed it the world in a way that may have never happened otherwise. Brits appreciated black american musicians, and gave them credit, flying them to england to perform for waves of young audiences who appreciated and obsessed over their american blues, hence why Sister Rosetta is seen here performing in england. People need to understand that brits were important in renewing dying american blues music. Why else would howlin wolf and others had huge followings in europe.

I kinda see what you're saying, though. But america had a darker climate for black artists, especially for blues and raw stuff like this, so it the british wave had to be the catalyst for exposure to mainstream.

@@BSIII Yup.....you nailed it.....good call!

Ugly confederate influence would not allow us to witness and like creativity and art of people that they called animals. (!) Britain had no ugly south, so they got to hear it. And monkey see monkey do , the brits stole it, claimed they wrote it, and sold it right back to our ignorant country, all dressed up as whi.... uh, european. Then we were allowed to hear it.

cause americanos are funny about black people

I love you

I think Janice Joplin sang it, too.

I've been a totally swinging chick singer for decades, singing Blues, Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll and even improvisational/experimental stuff - in bands (some with horns), duos and trios. I'm also visual artist, filmmaker and vintage clotheshorse. Go for it!

An amazing gig with various Blues legends brought over to Manchester, England 64 in response to the wave of interest in Blues music at the time. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/when-the-blues-train-rolled-into-chorlton-1049592

Thank you everso

Sue Johnson she's in the hall of fame now

watch the godmother of rock n roll, sister rosetta tharpe on youtube, it's all there

To be specific ....it was filmed at Chorlton cum hardy train station ...I lived there and was 10 at the time ....we had quite a few events filmed on the station ...if you couldn’t get a ticket you could stand on the bridge overlooking the station ....Hollies played there as well if I remember

meh, not everybody likes the same thing.. genius or not. I like this, but don't care if someone else doesn't, I don't trouble myself with what others think, stay a lot happier this way

😂

Don't forget about Aretha Franklin

Microphone was clipped to a collar of her coat. And you can notice that there is a cable sticked in a left pocked of a coat. It's visible expecially in othes shots of that show. Probably it was wireless system, even in those old days. I can't notice other cable on the floor other than guitar one. But yeah, great voice and great singing.

It was the first time a radio mic had been used in England I seem to remember reading years ago. I remember watching this programme as an awestruck 14 year old. We all had a great interest in blues thanks to the likes of the Stones, who always credited their influences, the Animals, Yardbirds and others. Chris Barber was anther who paid for blues greats like Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters and others to come over where a lot of them earnt more money than they had seen before and were amazed to see venues full of white people appreciating them. They also loved the respect they got at a time when there was segregation in the USA and they were treated like second class citizens.

It's all over RU-vid, just search her.

It's at 194,000 now, 6 months later.