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Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, Sister Rosetta Tharpe popularised gospel music to a new level of commercial acceptability during the 1930s and 1940s. Contains 28 tracks providing an essential overview of her career. Presented here is everything that the gospel audience would expect in religious fervour and meaningful lyrics but because of her then unique style of guitar playing she had an appeal so great that it propelled her recordings into the emergent blues and r&b market. Sister Rosetta Tharpe's guitar playing influenced the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Includes InchStrange Things Happening EverydayInch which stormed to No 2 on the Billboard 'Race' charts, one of the first gospel recordings to achieve that feat. Other important tracks in this collection include InchDown By The RiversideInch which the American Library of Congress registered in 2004 for it's direct influence on early Rhythm & Blues music. Album Tracks 1. Rock Me 2. That's All 3. This Train 4. Bring Back Those Happy Days 5. There Is Something Within Me 6. Stand By Me 7. Shout, Sister, Shout! 8. Rock Me 9. I Want a Tall Skinny Papa 10. Singing in My Soul 11. I Claim Jesus First 12. Strange Things Happening Everyday 13. Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread 14. Jesus Is Here Today 15. Jonah 16. Didn't It Rain 17. Stretch Out 18. Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air 19. My Journey to the Sky 20. Down By the Riverside 21. Sing and Shout 22. Nobody's Fault But Mine 23. Don't Leave Me Here to Cry 24. What Have I Done? 25. Don't You Weep, O Mary, Don't You Weep 26. I've Done Wrong 27. Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do 28. Let's Be Happy
