Published on:
June 25th, 2015
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of the great innovators in twentieth-century American music, gospel's first cross-over artist and a huge influence on early rock-n-roll. Here she does "Up Above My Head" on the show TV Gospel Time (which ran from 1962-66) accompanied by the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church Choir and rocking her Gibson Les Paul SG custom.