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Sister Rosetta Tharpe wielded her electric guitar with finesse and ferocity, creating the template for electric blues – this tutorial unpacks her full-force soloing style

The Godmother of rock 'n' roll played in Open E but we'll make it easy for you with an audio and tab lesson in standard tuning that gets to grips with her gospel licks, double-stops and chromatic runs

Guitar World

“In the flesh, he was earth-shattering. His style on every level was fantastic… playing with his teeth, his feet, and behind his head": When Buddy Guy rewrote the blues rulebook with a Strat and blew the collective minds of Clapton, Beck and Page

The inspirational playing of the last living American blues legend: "I was bringing it up to Eric and Jimmy – ‘Have you heard this stuff!?'"

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Learn the greatest licks from over 100 years of trailblazing blues guitarists, from Robert Johnson to B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Gales and more

These 15 must-learn licks take you from blues guitar's acoustic beginnings to its electric present day

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“If you don’t have good tone with just your amp and your guitar, ain’t no pedal gonna help you”: Sue Foley is dropping truth bombs and nylon-string blues in her tribute to the pioneering women of guitar

One Guitar Woman finds Sue Foley getting technically adventurous as she covers Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie and Maybelle Carter

Guitar World

The rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of hardcore and punk

A growing movement of artists are embracing the music genre’s Black cultural roots

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“Let's do that again!” This compilation of fiery Sister Rosetta Tharpe guitar solos shows how her revolutionary playing inspired blues-rock greats like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and the Rolling Stones

Though she passed away five decades ago, footage of Tharpe's aggressive, virtuosic and precise fretwork, thankfully, remains

Guitar World

“When you hear that rock and roll thing, it really kind of comes from her”: A lost and previously unheard live recording of rock ’n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe is being released for Record Store Day

The recording of Tharpe's epic 1966 set at Limoges, France, was unearthed by Zev Feldman – the so-called "Indiana Jones of Jazz" – and will feature liner notes from Susan Tedeschi, Bonnie Raitt and more

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“Her roaring mastery of her trusty Gibson Les Paul Custom rivaled the best of her male contemporaries”: A lost Sister Rosetta Tharpe live album featuring never-before-heard recordings has been unearthed – and it’s set for release this year

21 tracks discovered by “The Indiana Jones of jazz” have been compiled into a new live album, which will contain liner notes from Tharpe experts and contemporary artists, including Susan Tedeschi, Billy Gibbons, Bonnie Raitt and more

Guitar World

32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar

Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

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“All this new stuff they call rock ’n’ roll, why, I’ve been playing that for years now”: How Sister Rosetta Tharpe kickstarted the British blues-rock explosion – in 1957

Though Muddy Waters is typically credited as the one who first brought snarling American blues-rock guitar to the UK, he was beaten to the punch by a year

Guitar World

‘Marie & Rosetta’ soars on the musical wings of rock ’n’ roll, gospel pioneer

Between powerhouse numbers, the dramatic tension at Northlight Theatre comes from the clashing personalities and musical styles of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and her protege Marie Knight.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rosetta Tharpe, who helped turn gospel sounds into rock ’n’ roll, mentors newcomer in Northlight play

‘Marie & Rosetta’ depicts a pairing of singers whose made ‘intoxicating’ music together, playwright says.

Chicago Sun-Times

Things to do in Chicago July 6-12: The Mix

Millennium Park movies, the Chosen Few picnic and the Square Roots festival are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Keith Richards and Eric Clapton worshipped her solos, and Elvis idolized her sound: how Sister Rosetta Tharpe became an electric guitar trailblazer

The story of the Gibson-toting guitarist who lit the fire on a six-string revolution that paved the way for rock ’n’ roll

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The Guardian - UK

‘We paved the way for the Rolling Stones’: Ottilie Patterson, the forgotten first lady of British blues

She was a standout singer – but crumbled after a brutal marriage and backstreet abortion. Ahead of a new reissue, her peers recall what happened to this singular talent

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Why are women so marginalised by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

Barely 8% of its inductees are female. The canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer who inspired Elvis: one of many women sidelined from musical history

Elvis Presley is the perfect subject matter for Australian film director Baz Luhrmann. Not just because the opulence of Presley’s showmanship and Lurhmann’s trademark visual style are perfect bedfellows, but because the “Presleyverse” itself is not about Elvis Presley. It’s about the idea of Elvis, the great myth of Elvis…

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The rise of incredible Bristol singer who’s sensational in Baz Luhrmann's new Elvis movie

Country soul diva Yola has weathered an amazing journey from home city shows to the big screen, via the Grammys and she's played Glastonbury

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The Guardian - UK

Country-soul star Yola: ‘I have a mission. I’m extremely bloody-minded about it’

The Grammy-nominated UK singer on her journey from guesting on dance bangers to starring in Baz Lurhmanm’s Elvis, and her long battle for recognition in the white, male-dominated Americana scene

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Ziggy bows out, Madonna scares the pope and Dylan goes electric: 50 gigs that changed music

Five decades after David Bowie’s seminal tour, our music writers reflect on the concerts that have left a mark, from Billie Holiday to Billie Eilish

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