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Deeper Gospel Roots

Deeper Gospel Roots
Deeper Gospel Roots

We visit a mix of genres that celebrate the sacred and the sanctified in an episode entitled “Deeper Gospel Roots”.  The mix includes early influential pieces from Arizona Dranes and the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers and explores the southern Baptist influence on gospel music with the inevitable undercurrent of themes that are also found in the country sounds of performers such as  Molly O’Day and Cumberland Mountain Folks and The Louvins…as well as the sanctified blues of Charley Patton and the Reverend Blind Gary Davis.

We’ll also take some time to sample some rare urban influences including the electric guitar disciples from the Boddie Recording Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the sounds of late century ‘sacred steel’.   Don’t miss out…join Dave Stroud as he guides us through the performances from the last century of America’s music.

This episode will be posted to Mixcloud in the near future.

 

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Deeper Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Deeper Sister Tharpe
Deeper Sister Rosetta Tharpe

In this installment of Deeper Roots, a special edition dedicated to the music of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, she began her career at age four performing with her evangelical mother in shows that were part sermon, part gospel concert, and energetic events that got the audience moving. She influenced a great number of performers who would go on to take her secular message into a realm that, for all intents and purposes, she had created: rock and roll. Her electrifying guitar work complimented her voice and she left us with a legacy of recordings that has no peer. Join Dave Stroud Friday night at 9PM as he explores her influences, those she influenced, and music from Sister Tharpe herself.

This episode will be posted to Mixcloud in the near future.