Sister Rosetta Tharpe in France in the 1950s

Sister Rosetta Tharpe got rock rolling long before Elvis

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

by Gayle F. Wald

Beacon Press

February 2007, 272 pages, $25.95

[27 February 2007]

by Dan DeLuca

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

The late, great Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a one-of-a-kind pioneer of 20th-century American music.

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