Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Your Stepdad Picked Most of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Again
Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues, the Cars, and Nina Simone make up the Class of 2018, with Sister Rosetta Tharpe receiving the Award for Early Influence.
Black Women’s Voices Are the Sound of Rock ’n’ Roll
Unending love and appreciation is the least we can offer pioneers like Big Mama Thornton and Tina Turner.
Ten Musical Pioneers You've Never Heard Of: The Girls
London turntable goddesses, The Broken Hearts, pore over their dusty vinyl and talk about their favorite female music mavericks.
Sweet Honey In The Blues
A few years ago, when that big Scorsese-produced PBS special of films about "The Blues" was about to premiere, I was exceptionally psyched to hear that Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire) made one about this gospel blues singer named...
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