Sister Rosetta Tharpe Didn't It Rain

[nunyabiz11188]

anything to praise his holy name!! TO GOD BE THE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER AMEN!!

[MrNikodemus2]

legend. nothing else to say!



[powderchowder2]

They looks cold! The sound quality is surprisingly good.

[Lostchord1000]

Pure magic! A larger than life STAR with real talent! Queen of the Gibson SG!

[stevenhs8821]

Two dislikes? Must have accidentally hit the wrong button.

[420gma]

@stevenhs8821 Whats there to dislike !? She's amazing !

[xxRandomnameguyxx]

I think todays girls can learn something from this woman.

[RhenniusMan]

@xxRandomnameguyxx Exactly what I came here to say!

(that, and how incredibely cool she is!)

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

I am pretty damned sure she got the cred for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.. get with it Cleveland..

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

The original 'glam rock'- startin with gospel, she had the 'rock and roll' guitar arena style DOWN before anyone.. men included according to Women Who Ock on PBS in November 2011.. THE ro

[whatthedormousesaid]

She's in the Blues Hall of Fame, but not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as far as I know.

[ecoutebetegarcon]

I sure hope she's in the rock and roll hall of fame

[ensconse]

@ecoutebetegarcon

I just had the same thought!

[MrRazorblade999]

@ecoutebetegarcon She's not.

[BigAssTuba]

@MrRazorblade999 She.s HOT!

[squidmotion]

incredible!

[tbuck501]

The best!

[metafis]

3:29 wow, thats where Jimi Hendrix got that move from!. :)

[MrStuddsRamrod]

This is mighty mighty good

[bluesboyruston]

absolute fantastic talent of her day influenced chuck berry elvis a whole host of blues stars she is terrific

[fpgrind]

If church was like this I'd be there every sunday!

[11donian]

@fpgrind Amen to that.

[upthcreek]

Hey Lynn... thank you for your humble, and gracious service tonight... after you listen to this song, listen to "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" ( Robert Plant/Allison Krause)

[Bamaboompa]

I have a BIG problem with this song.

It's ENTIRELY too short!

[HochzeitDiscjockey]

Awesome! I first heard of her when my friend Richard told me about her. He gave me his only record of her. In Switzerland there is this singer by the name Bo Katzman who does this horrible gospel shows during christmas. I hope people realize what sister Rosetta Tharpe really is: pure Gospel!

[837blah]

Love it! How fun!

[gittarr]

What a fantastic sound for a live open air gig back in 1964

[mrussum1]

rock n roll was invented by this woman

[benthejrporter]

Cool :-) She's great!

[asyourvoicefadesaway]

me likey.

[thegallery]

3:28 Love it!

[TravelingOWeide]

wie geil is das denn :))))

[MissLisaTee]

I saw this on the BBC last week, she is brill, all her songs are from the heart, you can tell she experienced alot in her life, its a shame the tunes now a days dont make you feel like this

[mikekamboh]

This is sorelal.

[HeRoSeNsEi]

WOW XD AN A 61 Les Paul Custom

[aquanet2]

a great article about her and her guitar and career Premier guitar dot com

/Magazine/Issue/2011/May/ Forgotten_Heroes_Sister_Rosett­a_Tharpe.aspx

[threethymes]

Saw a documentary recently all about Sister Rosetta. Amazing woman and fantastic music. Thanks a lot for uploading this.

[shaftsbury94]

what guitar is she playing anyone?

[aquanet2]

@shaftsbury94 1961,SG/Les Paul

[jaqjaques]

now that's what I'm talkin' about.

[serappia]

a true star! bravo rosetta.

[jimmymcjim1984]

didn't it just



[eveningtsar]

What an extraordinary performance. Such a voice, such licks, such expression, like she's narating a story . . .she blows apart every modern stereotype in one go.

[sarahluvdance]

good times



[brandiralavara5]

what an amazing woman..

[Orphantechnology]

Hats off to the technicians that pulled this off.

[uteanatinny]

Wonderful and energetic performance ...from a truly great woman in our collective musical history. She rocks! :-)

[belaluvvjonas4ever]

AMAZING guitar playing! and amazing singing too!

[Broomehall]

Would never happen today on a british train platform would it ? man, i would like to have been there for that...................

[bugietube]

@ibwilliamsi Amen. I'd never heard of her before until paging through a book on the Photographs of Charles Peterson called New York Swing Era(?).

[bugietube]

How cool. She so Chuck....or Chuck so Rosetta.

Yeah, it's a free country, live how you wanna live.....Do you know ther's members of future parliament out there????!

Love the dance at 3:28...

[ibwilliamsi]

@bugietube She was feelin' it!

[bugietube]

@gcolter722 Well, I hate to be'The Jerk' here but I believe the 'Twinkie' was exported to Britain roughly about this time. This is one of the largest occurences of white people finding their 'special purpose' ever recorded on video.

[gcolter722]

How'd dey get all dem white folks clappin' on 2 an 4?

[Nanato6kids]

Im tapping my feet and loving this soulful blessed woman!

[MrBrianlowdown]

rocknroll moma....o yea

[TheEigenspace]

Dude, it's a shame I didn't hear this until just a week ago. Thank you!

[SuperSLIMGOODY1]

GO HEAD...SISTER ROSETTA THARPE..GLORY GLORY..

[awfulguitarplucker]

Sis Rosetta THarpe + 3H SG= MINDBLOW INSTANTLY!

[GReYSTOKE2012]

See it and weep! So ...a woman it was who invented 'rock n roll' and of course it now makes sense....straight from gospel with an acustic guitar and a lesbian attitude...doing it like a dude! Beat that you 'rock n roll' pretenders..

[natureangel2]

I hadn't heard of this lady until I watched a documentary about her tonight. Amazing! This is def where Rock and Rock started!

[flowerhappy100]

her voice is so smooth! :)

[wolfvader1]

Incredible! I wish I could have seen this stuff in person....

But video will have to do. Thanks for posting!

[appledecca]

Thank you, I love having this film on my AmericanA Channel....Oh my Lord, was this lady a lead..... he he !

[lalaa9000]

how did I miss this? Lord I love Sister Rosetta Tharpe!

[buddyeagle]

I love Sister Rosetta and her guitar licks. Shou Sister Shout!

[Yanggroup]

So great ! I've never seen or heard her before it is so powerful !

[Whydoyoureadme]

that SG sound like a banjo......

AWESOME

[gamewizard]

@Whydoyoureadme

It's not an SG. In the early 60's Gibson changed the design of the Les Paul but Les didn't like it and didn't want his name on it so they went back to the original design and revived this shape a short time later as the SG without so many bells and whistles so it wouldn't compete with the Les Paul. This is about a 1961 or 62 Les Paul Deluxe.

[basicnative75]

Hollywood sure can make a stage look good. Nice set!

[nandusell]

WOW these are the people that truly paved the way... from gospel to beyonce shaking her ass

[xipaul]

wonderfull :D

[silentium55]

Didn't it Rain..of course it did, it was Manchester. Sister's a Star

[harvey1954]

She's bopping around with an electric guitar on a wet platform outside? How were they miking her vocals?

[eeclass20]

Filmed at Wilbraham Road station south ManchesterUK(about 20mins from where I'm sitting)line closed to passengers in 1958.Line finally closed completely in 1988,I drove one of the last trains over the line!

[chridmeister]

@eeclass20 I was born in the year that this was made (1964), in Stockport, about 4 miles or so from there :)

[RaintreeLDS]

Thank you, thank you very much. Ah'm normal, now. How could I live without this beat, this heat, this way to move my feet?

[appledecca]

oh she's great. !..i love her guitar style *** Thank You

[jayceenine]

bad ass SG!!!!!

[gamewizard]

@jayceenine

I hate to keep having to do this, but it's not an SG! It's a Les Paul Deluxe. Gibson changed the shape for a few years but went back to the original shape when Les Paul complained about it but they kept this shape around removing some of the features and moving it down market as a cheaper model, the SG. 

[onamemmet]

that's ace frehley before kiss. on the whole, i think his makeup in kiss was more successful.

[Gagagrr]

Pretty generous calling her a guitar virtuoso.. But she's great.. off course

[BarbLehto]

....and the people said AMEN

[dinasaur2]

Just imagine this, a buggy and a horse and a railway platform. Great film clip----

[dinasaur2]

great clip

[Jboogie73]

Can't help mounting my soapbox again! The decline is untrue...maybe video killed much more than than the radio star...not too mention hiphop (which I love).

Brilliant artist! Just hope the budding talents of today would hark back and get inspiration from their predecessors and rich cultural history...like Michael Jackson (RIP) did!

[bluesdude14]

Way cool

[SiMoFkr]

haha that's great, the old gospel singer jamming on a SG

[gamewizard]

@SiMoFkr

It's not an SG. It's a Les Paul Deluxe. They re-issued the shape later as the SG when they went back to the original Les Paul shape.

[jimmiedalton]

smokin

[nulight22]

Well that's a creative entrance- they just made a stage huh?! No prop expenses I suppose - cool

[Radge1965]

It originates from a UK TV show "The Blues and Gospel Train" from 1964.

[debsen1]

Was this a TV show?

[russradicans]

Damn shes fine in a surrey with a fringe on top!!

[JAG8176]

Awesome.

[bblues67]

Nice