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| threetimes 09/25/21 7:57:13 PM #28: | Tour of the UK by black musicians in 1964, including Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Classic performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NFywQdeKSo "The station was dressed up to look like one from the American South, but typically for Manchester, the weather did not echo that area's dustbowl conditions. Shortly after the train which carried the audience the few miles south from Manchester's city centre pulled in, a storm lashed the station. Mr Hamp says the downpour would have been his worst memory of the show had it not led to his best. "Sister Rosetta came to me and asked if she could change her opening number to Didn't It Rain?," he said. "When she strapped on her guitar, it was astounding." Dr Lee says the "brilliant sequence where she and Cousin Joe cakewalk along the rain-soaked station" after her arrival in a carriage and her stunning version of the song was also one of his highlights." --- The bells haven't stopped ringing yet. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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