Sister rosetta tharpe

To Arkansongs radio show host and musician Stephen Koch, Arkansas is the most influential state in the U.S. when it comes to music.

Check out this incredible footage of Sister Rosetta Tharpe - the woman who invented rock 'n' roll guitar - performing her track 'This Train'.

When people would ask her about her music, she would say, “Oh, these kids and rock and roll — this is just sped up rhythm and blues. I've been doing that forever.” - Gayle Wald, author of Shout, Sister, Shout!:

A new study by Fender found that 50% of new guitar players are female, but women have been rocking the guitar world throughout history.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Michael Rougier. 1950)

The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll begins in the early 1950s with Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll.’” Yet a much deeper history exists and a more complex set of origins.

The Gospel Singer Who Became the Godmother of Rock 'n' Roll

Guitar wizard, rock & roll pioneer and gospel-blues giant Rosetta Tharpe was not tilting at windmills; she WAS the Windmill “I feel so bad in the morning. I feel so bad in the middle of the