5/27/2023 0 Comments The little friend book review![]() ![]() The voice was arresting insistent in a fierce but friendly way quickly recognizable to my young ears, while other voices came and went. ![]() It was years before I learned that Tharpe was playing that jangling guitar - sometimes beneath, sometimes in front of her voice. Since these introductions came by radio, I had no idea what the musicians looked like, or even whether they played the instruments accompanying them. Two decades later it introduced me not just to Tharpe, but also to the likes of Big Bill Broonzy and Woody Guthrie. This was the classical station that in 1953, in a groundbreaking program created by Mike Nichols, began playing the music of the American people. It most assuredly was coming out of our old Grundig radio, tuned, as it always was late on Saturday evenings in Chicago, to “The Midnight Special” on WFMT. ![]() The first time I heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s voice must have been when I was in high school in the 1970s. ![]()
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