Love that it actually rained during the song…  (Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Didn’t It Rain, 1964)

“In 2008, a concert was held to raise funds for a marker for her grave.”  (Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout Sister Shout, ca. 1941)

“She became the first great recording star of gospel music in the late 1930s and also became known as the “original soul sister” of recorded music.”  (Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Four or Five Times, 1941)

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY