Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train

We don’t need a crappy Hollywood movie that twists the truth. We just need people to hear this incredible lady. ❤

She isn't in the rock n roll hall of fame, She built it. With her bare hands

Look at her, she is sweating buckets, she is just pouring out her soul, preaching. My God, what an amazing woman!

I’m watching the amazing Sister Rosetta Tharpe on April 12, 2024 and wondering why she isn’t far better known. That voice. That guitar. That presence. One for the ages.

She isn't the King or the Queen... she's the MOTHER of Rock 'n' Roll

We definitely need a movie about this amazing woman she's an icon like no other.

How did I live for 45 years and only find out about her today? She's not even showing her power level. Amazing.

This woman created rock n roll. And as a blues guitarist myself, I love listening to her play. Every note oozes soul.

The real king of rock and roll is a queen !

Chuck Berry called Sister Rosetta Tharpe "The Mother of Rock n Roll".

If this lady does not get inducted into the rock n roll Hall of fame then the whole music industry needs to look at itself, this is proof she contributed to the birth of rock

May the unemployed find a job, may the sick be healed and whoever reads this message be blessed 💚🙌🙌 ....

“She was a big, good-lookin woman, and divine, not to mention sublime and splendid. She was a powerful force of nature. A guitar-playin’, singin’ evangelist.” Bob Dylan

I've never seen a performer announce what song they were gonna play, and then be receptive to the crowd's reaction and change the set list based on crowd feedback. What a performer!

She's taking me to church, and I ain't even mad! ❤

At the age of 76 This old white trombone musician just discovered this incredible and hugely influential giant. So many people copied her style. She is a foundation of Rock and remains in it to this day. I am angry I was never exposed to her before. To think that Madonna and so many others were in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame before her is a travesty. She will live on in my musical mind forever now. Blues, jazz, Rock and Gospel! Damn she make my white ass jump, like few others. If you’re up there singing and playing that steel I want you to know I love ya woman! Hey Jimi Hendrix, look her up man. You folks need to jam together.

She's not only singing gospel blues, she's also playing lead guitar .....unheard of in her day.... a true legend and as other contributors have opined, sadly overlooked...!

It AMAZES me that this woman isn't in the Rock n Roll hall of Fame, but Madonna is.

she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 - finally. she passed in 1973 - so it was almost 50 years . Embarrassed to say I never heard of her until after her passing and I started collecting Chess and Checker, Stax, and other labels that the blues and crossover artists were recording with in the mid 60s. But I honestly dont recall ever seeing a recording of hers in my searches those days. Shame. She deserved far more fame than she ever realized in her lifetime. Many others also did too. Kinda screwed up that I learned of the black blues artists from white English bands. But the emergence of the blues in UK in the early 60s is what brought their names to white kids like me. And since I went to a university 90 miles south of Chicago - that is where my love for the genre started.

Its almost 2024 we need a movie! Ugh, so inspiring.. this woman <3