{"id":52965,"date":"2019-11-12T01:59:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/?p=52965"},"modified":"2019-11-11T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:42:31","slug":"sister-rosetta-pentecostalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/2019\/11\/sister-rosetta-pentecostalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Rosetta: The Pentecostal Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Sister Rosetta
\nGodmother of rock and roll
\nThe original sister of soul
\nAll our music was in her
\nShe brought rhythm
\nFrom the darkness into the light
\nShe brought the good word to the night
\nTo save all our sinners
\n(Frank Turner)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of my favorite things about the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul is one of our local public radio stations: 89.3 The Current. Its mission of bringing \u201clisteners the best authentic new music alongside the music that inspired it\u201d seems tailor-made for music-loving historians like me. That formula was never more clear than during <\/span>a recent in-studio performance<\/span><\/a> by British indie folk-rocker Frank Turner, promoting his new concept album, <\/span>No Man\u2019s Land.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0What <\/span>he calls<\/span><\/a> \u201ca history record\u201d about women, its first single tells the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, whose gospel singing and electric guitar playing inspired everyone from Chuck Berry to Eric Clapton.<\/span><\/p>\n