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- In Sister Rosetta Tharpe
…that Tharpe’s rendition of “Strange Things Happening Every Day” can be viewed as the first rock-and-roll song and have branded her the “Godmother of Rock and Roll.” In Lost Highway: Journeys & Arrivals of American Musicians (1979), historian Peter Guralnick notes that early rockabilly performer Sleepy LaBeef believed that…
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