It's about time that I put a nice YouTube link on this blog. It will get me off the geeky blogging about blogging kick, anyway.
This is Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She invented rock and roll, not Al Gore. Sister Rosetta was playing these Chuck Berry licks back in the 30s when chuck was still learning cowboy chords.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head
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4 comments:
Hey, Never heard of Sister Rosetta Tharpe before, really enjoyed the clip, sat here toe-tapping and clapping along.
Great thanks.
:)
That was brilliant. Cheers.
I love this song. The recording is not from the 30's though. The guitar she plays on was introduced in the 60's. So Chuck Berry was first, sorry :P
Also the TV show is clearly from the 60's (there were hardly any of this kind in the 30's).
But maybe Slash from guns'n'roses stole some of her licks :D
This particular performance is indeed from a 1960s era television show broadcast in England. Sister Rosetta did begin playing those licks back in the 30s.
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