Live In France: The 1966 Concert In Limoges
DEEP DIGS/ELEMENTAL MUSIC
9/10
STANDING on the platform of a disused railway station in south Manchester one cold and damp day in the spring of 1964, wearing a voluminous winter coat, a curly blonde wig and a white Gibson SG guitar, Sister Rosetta Tharpe attempted to repel the elements by delivering a rousing version of the gospel song “Didn’t It Rain” to an audience of young white people seated, appropriately enough, on the other side of the tracks. The presence of a Granada TV crew, for whom