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Theatre Review: ‘Shout Sister Shout’ The Story of the First Lady of Rock & Roll

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Joan Alperin

Long before the great female rocker Janis Joplin came on the scene, there was a lady named, Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel singer born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas in 1915. Miss Tharpe was gospel’s first superstar and the preeminent crossover figure … Continue reading →

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