Women - we've always rocked

Before Bill Hailey and Elvis was Sister Rosetta Tharpe:

One of the most astonishing artists from that period is Rosetta Tharpe. (See Episode 292) I say astonishing because in the 1940s she was doing a lot of things most of us assume happened a lot later. A woman fronting a band, playing rock n roll on an electric guitar, before Suzi Quatro was born. Rosetta Tharpe’s popularity faded during the 1950s but a revival of interest in the early 1960s led to her visiting Europe, where she told the Daily Mirror:

All this new stuff they call rock ’n’ roll, why, I’ve been playing that for years now.

This is the full article:

http://ift.tt/1NPSnDN


https://youtu.be/l9bX5mzdihs

https://youtu.be/SR2gR6SZC2M



This is not how we or I anyway, imagine female singers in the 40s and early 50s. Thopught someone else might find it interesting.

Women - we've always rocked