Black History: Ruth Brown, The Woman Who Built Atlantic Records 1928 - 2006

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Ruth Brown - If I can't sell it, I'll sit on it

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The front woman of the Vanessa Davis Band: Vanessa Davis

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VanessaDavisBand.mp4

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Linda Hopkins

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LINDA HOPKINS Evil Woman 06 22 1994

Linda Hopkins -Black Drawers

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Guitar heroine

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Rosetta Tharpe - Short History

Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 October 9, 1973) was a pioneering Gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock accompaniment. She became the first great recording star of Gospel music in the late 1930s and also became known as the "original soul sister" of recorded music.

Willing to cross the line between sacred and secular by performing her inspirational music of 'light' in the 'darkness' of the nightclubs and concert halls with big bands behind her, her witty, idiosyncratic style also left a lasting mark on more conventional gospel artists, such as Ira Tucker, Sr., of the Dixie Hummingbirds. While she offended some conservative churchgoers with her forays into the world of pop music, she never left gospel music.MORE

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Didn't It Rain

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Murder Ballads

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I think I first paid attention to this genre when I heard

Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks

But today I got curious and googled murder ballads and got interested in the genre. (Here's the TV Tropes page. Fair Warning. TV tropes will suck you in)


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