Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!

Includes a timeline of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's life, author's note, and a list of sources.Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes.