SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
Apr 01, 2021
2 minutes
HY
hichever way you slice it, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an agent of pure revolution. Black, female, divorced, queer, singing the gospel and riffing on a distorted Gibson electric at nightclub guitar battles in downtown New York: these were not taboos to be busted
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