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Episode 5: Rosetta Tharpe and “This Train”

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Strange Things Happening Everyday

In september 19 forty four, she began one of the two most important musical collaborations of her career. She recorded strange things happening every day with sam price on piano. He insisted on her playing with a capo because she was playing in an open tuning and wasn't playing in a normal jaz key. And it's yet another song often credited as the first rock and roll record.

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