Part of Turning The Tables is reflecting back on the originators, the women who defined the sound of popular music, who didn’t get sufficient credit when they were working and, in many cases — Rosetta Tharpe being high on that list — have not received anywhere near enough credit from researchers, scholars and archivists. She only made it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, decades after many musicians who were directly influenced by her were inducted into their rolls.
But let’s imagine a world in which the opposite was true, and she was given her propers.
She played that guitar, a white Gibson SG, like no other. A [great write up] (https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/759600717/she-can-make-that-guitar-talk) by one of my favorite music writers, Caryn Rose.
