Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Rock Me
2. That's All
3. My Man And I
4. The Lonesome Road
5. Bring Back Those Happy Days
6. This Train
7. I Looked Down The Lane (And I Wondered)
8. God Don't Like It
9. Beams Of Heaven
10. Saviour Don't Pass Me By
11. The End Of My Journey
12. Sit Down
13. There Is Something Within Me
14. Stand By Me
15. Trouble In Mind
16. Rock Daniel
17. Four Or Five Times
18. Shout, Sister, Shout
19. The Lonesome Road
20. Shout, Sister, Shout

Disc 2:

1. Rock Me
2. That's All
3. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
4. Precious Lord, Hold My Hand
5. I'm In His Care
6. Nobody's Fault But Mine
7. I Want A Tall Skinny Papa
8. What He Done For Me
9. I Want Jesus To Walk Around My Bedside
10. All Over This World
11. Pure Religion
12. Rock Me
13. That's All
14. Trouble In Mind
15. Rock Daniel
16. Down By The Riverside
17. I Want A Tall Skinny Papa
18. This Train
19. Sin Is To Blame
20. That's All

Disc 3:

1. Let That Liar Alone
2. The Devil Has Thrown Him Down
3. Sleep On Darling Mother
4. God Don't Like It
5. I Want To Live So God Can Use Me
6. Rock Me
7. What's The News
8. Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares
9. Jesus Taught Me How To Pray
10. Forgive Me Lord And Try Me One More Time
11. What Is The Soul Of Man?
12. Singing In My Soul
13. I Claim Jesus First
14. Strange Things Happening Every Day
15. Two Little Fishes And Five Loaves Of Bread
16. Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend
17. How Far From God
18. When I Move To The Sky
19. Jesus Is Here To Stay
20. Jonah

Disc 4:

1. God's Mighty Hand
2. The Lord Followed Me
3. This Train
4. Oh, When I Come To The End Of My Journey
5. Didn't It Rain
6. Stretch Out
7. This Train
8. When I Come To The End Of My Journey
9. Beams Of Heaven
10. Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
11. My Journey To The Sky
12. Teach Me To Be Right
13. I Heard My Mother Call My Name
14. Heaven Is Not My Home
15. The Natural Facts
16. Ain't No Grave Hold My Body Down
17. Lay Down Your Soul
18. Precious Memories
19. Family Prayer
20. Down By The Riverside
21. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42079 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-04
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .47 pounds

Album Description
Not only did Sister Rosetts Tharpe play & sing gospel music with jazz groups in a show business environment, she was also the first artist to incorporate the city blues style from the 1930's with gospel music during the 1940s, a compelling performer & innovator, Tharpe was a true star. This comprehensive 81 track set features fabulous artwork with many previously unseen photos. Includes 40 page illustrated booklet. 4 standard jewel cases housed in a slip-box. Proper. 2002.

Customer Reviews

My nominee for the first rock and roll guitarist
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays with a lively, swinging, push-the-envelope ferocity that foreshadows Chuck Berry's playing. For that reason alone, this collection would be worth the nominal amount it costs. But there's plenty more to recommend this set of material from one of gospel's unjustly neglected giants. Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a passionate and gifted singer, with a grittiness that again presages the best of the rock-and-roll era. The material is first-rate throughout--these are songs you cannot get out of your head. Most of all, it's the way the music celebrates the gift of life and the joy of living, thereby offering the most compelling argument for the faith and doctrine it champions. This is music that invariably puts a smile on my face and a spring in my step.

Proper UK is a label worth exploring in depth, by the way. Its budget sets provide wonderful overviews of genres (everything from ska to Western swing to guitar blues) and great artists (from crooners to shouters and everything in between). Purists looking for pristine packaging and exquisite remastering will prefer Bear Family, but for us plebes on a budget, Proper is a godsend.

One of the greatest jazz guitarists ever & a great singer
Why fool around with a single disc sampler for $18.99 when for $24.99 you get everything from her early period on this box set. Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a Gospel singer who sounded more like a niteclub jazz singer, she sings more like Helen Humes then Mahalia Jackson. She plays guitar in a jazz style similar to Charie Christianson. This set will prove that Rosetta is the greatest Gospel singer of all time abd a underrated and forgotten jazz guitar legend, some of the best cuts feature her singin with just her guitar, man she swings!!! She is also featured with big bands, and she jums the blues!!!

Brilliant
I completely agree with Ms. Brooks above.

Not only is this some fine music by one of the best performers in Gospel and R&B, but it's excellently inexpensive. Four song-stuffed disks for a mere $24.00.

You can't go wrong with this one.