Rock & Roll

[kmusser]

One of the things I love about going through my fathers music collection is improving my music education, like for instance, I had no idea about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. For anyone curious how exactly gospel and swing evolved into rock & roll, just watch some of her clips:

She was doing that same sound as early as 1938, an audio only clip:

and a longer clip from a show in England:

Comments

[toothlesshag.livejournal.com]

This is pretty cool!!

[selki.livejournal.com]

I liked them. I think the first one alone makes the evolution clear!