Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (is bound for Glory)

[@xzysyndrome]

I am not a religious man...But Sister Rosetta takes me to church...sits me down...and says "Listen"

[@irvingrobinson2205]

She sings for the Father now.😊😊😊😊

[@LlyleHunter]

💙

[@charlotteehutton8179]

She always sang for the Father! ❤

[@bonnielucas3244]

No doubt at all

[@justina1487]

Who's the daddy?

[@peter-jameswilliams9239]

Amen

[@pamelasalyers5554]

That voice is so clean & soulful; her stage craft is through the roof. Awesome, HE is most proud.

[@LlyleHunter]

Indeed he is

[@juliecrane9647]

And she can see how proud bc she's sittin right next to Him 😊

[@thedolphin5428]

So beautifully understated and with the right priorities. #1. She's singing on behalf of Jesus. #2. She's preaching to audience. She doesn't even want them to clap, just to hear her message. #3 She's emphasising the truth of the words. #4. She's reminding her band of their holy path. #5. She's only singing and playing -- NOT OUT OF EGO -- but as accompaniment to the spiritual meaning and purpose of the song. I've seen all sorts of versions of this song and they all "perform", musically, with ego, and without any of #1 - #5. And, I'm not even a Christian ... yet I can see her purity of intent.

[@lcam9241]

Why aren't you a Christian? I ask sincerely.

[@bonnielucas3244]

Revelation tells us the things not permitted into the New Jerusalem. The point being that we all must be under the blood of Jesus the Lamb of God. Or we aren't clean enough

[@kellicoffman8440]

Exactly she is singing for Jesus and wants the people to hear the message

[@linh.8807]

She's running the whole show - the musicians behind her, the audience in front of her and BOTH of her instruments. Mastery.

[@aprilbaker9357]

Betcha Elvis knew her growing up. Love this lady's heart & soul. I was born in the wrong century. Love the blues, gospel and 50s rock n roll.

[@michaelclark9762]

Elvis was influenced by her singing style and talked about her being an influence. Little Richard was even more influenced by her singing. But she didn't play guitar like Chuck Berry until after Chuck started playing guitar that way. And she never sang songs about the teenage subculture, which is one of the defining characteristics of early rock & roll.

[@billbearden7301]

The Elvis movie released in May-June 2022 features Yola as Rosetta kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYCopKKtrdyricUsi=vGs9fNO08VEtBmcF

[@kathleenking47]

R&R up to 1963 R&B up to mid 70s

[@kathleenking47]

My 28 year old daughter listens to etta James and older music too

[@kathleenking47]

@@michaelclark9762 however, it does have her influence

[@AxleTrade]

The woman who practically invented rock and roll. Her legacy will live on in many forms. God bless this woman's soul.

[@stephensieweke4887]

God damn right.

[@xanthippus3190]

Amen brother

[@the2ndcoming135]

The older I get the more I get into standardized RocknRoll.

[@aintskurred918]

Cap!

[@rogerwilliams5382]

She's awesome. I'm so happy my 30+ daughter loves this lady and appreciates her talent. I wish the whole world would listen to her.

[@pamelanadel3787]

This woman is a legend! Let’s thank God that these songs still exist. ✝️❤️🙏🏻

[@pansepot1490]

Let’s thank KZbin and its almighty algorithm.

[@happykitten5695]

Thanks and Praise! \o/

[@cliffordmarkell40]

I'm 80 years old this is my rock and roll

[@kathleenking47]

Cool, until the late 60s-early 70s I was born in 1958..and knew Rock, wasnt Rock n Roll Although it was CALLED such

[@deusvult8251]

Fornications

[@kathleenking47]

@@deusvult8251 occult symbols Perhaps with some fornication But over most kids heads

[@jeanhayner2691]

Jesus has paid for my ticket to ride this train. THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY, THIS TRAIN IS LEAVING, GET ON BOARD; IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE!

[@stacyhenry3131]

Absolutely love this woman!!! She make me wanna live another day!!!

[@LlyleHunter]

That’s why I’m here. Having health problems and she keeps me hanging on.

[@beckyfrazee1508]

Love to hear this lady play and sing, sing on in glory sweet sister!

[@janettesturma2625]

2017- Sr.Rosetta did make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was the "Grandmother" of rock and roll😁.

[@patricioramirezcarmona8302]

¿Y por qué tardaron tanto?....

[@MarioVenegas-xc1zo]

​@@patricioramirezcarmona8302 se iba a desacreditar a muchos , pero cada aporte importa y esta mujer le dio forma 🤙🏼

[@wills9709]

I could be wrong but I thought she was dubbed the godmother of rock and roll. I'd be glad to know which is correct or perhaps both are correct. Great artist either way!

[@EveHyman]

To sing and play with precision, power, and ease like she does here - ridiculous skill and grace, not to mention the innovation.

[@DEVanderbiltCecil]

God bless you, sister Rosetta. May you be seated at the right hand of God.

[@reggiehall7612]

Goosebumps! Not just a player, not just a singer, but an entertainer, as well.

[@jayp4545]

Absolutely!!!

[@quill6211]

Sister Rosetta grabs a hold of your soul and gives you a shake

[@g-maald6884]

So much God-given talent.

[@andrefauquenot1207]

En 1964 je residais à Pau dans les Pyrénées Atlantiques en France et j'étais batteur dans une formation dixieland. Nous avons eu l'honneur et le plaisir d'accompagner Sister Rosetta Tharpe pour quelques morceaux. Expérience inoubliable pour nous d'être dirigé par Sister Rosetta Tharpe en personne !Sous sa direction le groupe à sonné comme jamais auparavant... Merci Rosetta, où que tu sois, certainement au paradis pour ce moment de bonheur.... Marco,Michaud ,Gaby et les autres dont j'ai oublié les noms, merci de répondre à ce commentaire. C'était un concert organisé à la MJC organisé par le vice président du Hot Club de France, Jacques Morgantini . Je vous embrasse, je tape encore sur mes tambours, la passion n'a pas d'age....

[@juliecrane9647]

This is one of the best shared stories I've ever read in my life. Unforgettable. I love you played Dixieland too. ❤

[@ghengis430]

She's looking up at the brothers and sisters up in the balcony. What an amazing woman.❤

[@nedludd8633]

Bless her for stopping the audience from clapping along ! such a talent and the backing musicians ! great stuff !

[@scaredypicker]

She was so incredible. As much stage presence, magnetism and musicianship as any rockstar

[@Mark-h9c]

Only the best guitarist of her time,incredible voice,painful,tragic,horrific life .Only the (founder,inventor,who could prevent her)pf Rock &Roll!

[@SuperManning11]

That voice! Such control to pull the audience anywhere she wants them.What I would have given to see her perform live-she’s so playful!

[@Lashqueen77]

Yeah

[@camilo66995]

Es un privilegio ver y escuchar cómo canta esta dama.

[@lucblin5302]

This train, for saints and sinners all alike, what a great lady, best of the best!!

[@lorimoss1909]

i don't know if u read the lyrics or heard em right but its a clean train that's bound for Glory! it don't pull sinners so if u want to ride it u got to be clean! if u need to get clean just ask Jesus to come into ur heart and make Him the Lord of ur life!

[@braznartn5176]

Luke Blin think again! You learned that lie from mainstream doctrines. That's right, mainstream Christianity teaches lies mixed with truth. Practicing sinners WILL MISS OUT ON GLORY.

[@revpgesqredux]

​@@braznartn5176 unrepentant sinners get absolutely fair exacting Justice ✝️ ♾️🔥

[@jasonhuber4730]

What makes the movement and revolution of Jesus different from all other faiths and creeds throughout all human history is that they long and seek and stretch and pull to climb the mountain to reach their Gods,try to purify themselves, wash themselves in that river Ganges. Jesus, was God coming to us. He came down to us, to the simple, the uneducated, the poor, and He meets us right where we are, in the muck, in our most shameful sins, and that’s where He does his best work. Yes, this train is bound for glory, Hallelujah! But we are sinful, broken, humans, and we love Jesus! ❤

[@warehouseworkwithkim]

KZbin brought this to me,, never heard of her ,, I am so surprised , and amazed

[@juliecrane9647]

Omg how cool. I really love that for u ❤❤

[@MarkRosman36]

Music cannot get any better than this. God bless Sister Rosetta Tharpe. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Well deserved.

[@joelwatts5260]

This was the first time hearing this woman. Wow!

[@SimplyDevin]

Wow…. Glad I stumbled upon this today. Praise the Lord !

[@jenniferhorton3925]

Yes, love her singing, but I love her guitar playing even more. A virtuoso guitarist. Thank you Sister Rosetta Tharpe!

[@jchbsurf]

Not so well remembered any longer but Ms Tharpe was a monster talent.

[@leepolakoff9551]

What a voice.i mean she's a beast.thanks for posting

[@michaelclark9762]

She's probably more appreciated by the general public in the U.S. now than since the early 1950s. She was big in Europe, as were many American Blues, R&B, and Gospel singers in the early 1960s.

[@yogeshbhandari1040]

This video is absolutely gold , it should be preserved by people who loved Janis Joplin and Rock N Roll from 60’s !

[@michaelclark9762]

This is from the 1960s. The guitar she's playing is a model that wasn't made by Gibson until 1961.

[@sonimbetterthanyou]

Shes the type of Women that commands respect from the most gangster person to the most wholesome person. She had a powerful energy and stature about her.

[@jocelyneavilla2183]

Every Sunday my father would play your records in which we still have his whole collection of Records❤

[@Cheapers-Vac]

Cannot begin to wrap my head around all the wonderful singers and musicians ,like Ofra Haza, this lady here and so many many more all in love ❤ with our Lord Yeshua ,King of kings n Lord of Lords...some day ..we get to hear them all and join in the chorus with them. An Amazing Grace-ful day ❤!

[@christophermitchum6829]

Come on, SIS... everyone, ANYONE... who played after the train left the station... better recognize who laid the tracks😎👍💥👆🎶✔️✨

[@LlyleHunter]

❤️

[@caneroskar4979]

This woman was a present from above.

[@assisolegario9410]

Sister Rosseta is true pioneer the Rock And Roll!! Yeah!!

[@kathleenking47]

Before funk/rap And funk, back then, and now Meant body odor

[@donaldjohnlong5330]

Elvis saw her perform in Memphis in 1954. He had to meet her. He was Godsmacked.

[@michaelclark9762]

Little Richard was even more influenced by her in 1947 when he was a concession worker at the city auditorium in Macon, GA and she did a show there.

[@chrisdaunhauer1757]

thanks for the upload. great music. I think third stanza lyrics are "no false pretenders and no back biters"

[@SidneyHarris-k4z]

Sister Rosetta sang at my friend Terry Cryer"s wedding. [Terry was feature photographer of the year 1957] Famous Jazz photographer.

[@NeilLB7]

This guitar tone is a clean tone!!

[@jannaoganesian3965]

Grandmother of rock & roll, and bluse ,unbelivable,à great guitar player and à great singer RIP Sister Rosetta

[@vincentalongi4005]

I'm not a religious man but listening to this lady makes me believe I could be

[@eliyahuhey]

Just give in to YHWH brother and get on this train. Jesus is the Engineer of engineers and will get you straight to the stop you need to make.

[@susanne4795]

That's the point, it includes everyone as rock and rollers.

[@takerisksnprosper]

Thank you godmother for your gift of rock and roll. May your soul be blessed to the fullest

[@dreambeliever3652]

Wow. Never knew this song went this far back and they had a sister on the electric guitar.

[@tosleepanddream]

They don't call her the "Godmother of Rock and Roll" for nothing.

[@elijahrobinson2362]

She is rightly called the godmother of rock and roll. She influenced an awful lot of the greats who started in the 1950s and 1960s, including using such tools as distortion.

[@docrofo2573]

She actually started it. Chuck Barry could’ve learned a thing or two. She was an innovator and trail blazer. God bless her

[@michaelclark9762]

This song goes back a lot further than her. It had already been around forever when it was first recorded in the 1920s.

[@michaelclark9762]

@@docrofo2573 She was an impressive, powerful, and very influential vocalist who sang mostly gospel songs. But she wasn't a rock & roller before Chuck Berry and the Memphis Rockabilly artists like Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, etc. were. She most assuredly did NOT invent Rock & Roll. Chuck Berry did, with a lot of help from folks like Fats Domino and New Orleans Doo-Wop, Ray Charles' proto-soul music, James Brown's "everything is a drum" mentality, Hillbilly guitar licks, and the Jump Blues of Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, and Elmore James [who electrified country delta blues combined with West Coast jump blues to create "West Side (Chicago)" Blues]. Listen to her early records from around 1939-1950 and they sound nothing like Rock & Roll. The music sounds more like Mahalia Jackson in the 1950s or big band numbers from the WWII era. From 1950 on she was beginning to incorporate some of the same influences that Chuck built upon, but they weren't nearly as explicitly obvious in her recordings as what Chuck was doing by 1955. One of the primary elements of Rock & Roll is lyrics aimed at teenagers. Chuck Berry was the first to combine R&B rhythms, Hillbilly (later called "Country" music) guitar licks, and teen-targeted lyrics. Some historians even give him credit for inventing the concept of "teenagers" as a cultural phenomenon separate from "children" and "adults". Before Rock & Roll in the mid-1950s, kids were considered children all the way until they reached adulthood, having very little independence. The prosperity of the 1950s and the proliferation of automobiles among the middle class changed that. "With his instinct for the ­historical moment, alertness to the fads and folkways of his young fans, delight in an unprecedented American prosperity, matchless verbal facility and autobiographical recall, Berry played a major role in inventing teendom itself - in augmenting its self-awareness and turning it into a ­subculture." - From 'Rolling Stone' magazine following his death in 2017. Rosetta Tharpe's singing style was adopted by some early rock & rollers (most notably Little Richard and Elvis Presley), but she did not have a guitar style similar to Chuck until the late 1950s, well after 1955 when Chuck Berry burst upon the scene with 'Maybelline' [which was a rewrite of the popular Hillbilly song 'Ida Red' with new lyrics aimed at teenagers] and followed it with a string of hit after hit from 1955 to the early 1960s. Tharpe's guitar style changed to incorporate Berry's guitar sound into her own around 1958-59.

[@smbyrdgregg6996]

My mother loved this song 🎵 ❤️.

[@rachelflores-ul2nm]

She sings beautiful

[@brendalaveine7756]

What a performer, singer and guitar player, what a jewel!

[@blazel462]

That is really passion and talent!

[@richaldox55]

Sister Rossettis still singing in a heaven for all to enjoy her wonderful everything!!

[@AnnaBrown-h4e]

Wow! Beautiful voice!! More truth and gospel in that song then a lot of preachers ever preach!!

[@RaptureReadyforJesus-qv2ql]

Amen to your comment!!!

[@dougiehouston2360]

Reminds me of my Nana. I love you nana, till we meet again

[@wsidechris]

I’m sure she’s singing “don’t pull no anchors”, but to me it’s “don’t pull no wankers”. Rock on, Sister!

[@bguen1234]

I think she is saying 'wankers', which is not part of Woodie Guthrie's lyrics.

[@michaelclark9762]

Wankers had a slightly different shade of meaning in the UK back then.

[@johnhughes3796]

She's actually singing 'winkers' if you listen carefully.

[@michaelclark9762]

@@johnhughes3796 Nice try, but it's definitely "wankers", which the British people she's singing for pronounced that way.

[@pagangwynne3627]

@@johnhughes3796 And if you look, She's winking furiously at the same time.

[@timwallace5355]

Talk about commanding the stage! And the nod at :42 to some of the top jazz musicians of the day backing her -- "OK boys, snap to!"

[@vicbunn1215]

She is just awesome!!!

[@koryblack9267]

The soul...the funk...where has this been my whole life...Sister Rosetta

[@Scottymo-pj7iw]

So here's a cool thought. We are made in God's image. Every single one of us. So if we are made in God's image clearly God likes music so I firmly believe that sister Rosetta is up there jamming with the father. Could you imagine both on their Gibsons trading riffs with the angels as backup. I think that would be pretty cool❤

[@keithwhiteley1303]

She is so cool and powerful.

[@charlenekiddharrison3600]

SHE IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! I don't know if the word "FANTASTIC" really describes this BEAUTIFUL ladies voice. I have talked about her to everyone.....a LOT!! I grab my phone & show her videos. LoL

[@kathalinebrink2414]

wow never heard of her I Love it God bless her I know she in heaven with Jesus sing on sister🌷🌷🌹🌹♥️🙏🎼🎵🎶☺️💕

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

Those smiles when crowd picks this song are something special. What a gift from God this woman was.

[@lisalopez857]

Sadly, I have never heard of this lady. Love it!!!

[@hectormaradona8410]

It carries in its song the culture of struggle, joy, sadness and hope, which can only be sung in this way by those who lived in those times.

[@michaelclark9762]

This song was older than she. It has been around much longer than the technology that allows audio recordings. It's origins are lost in the mists of time. The first recording of it was "Dis Train" recorded in 1922 by the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette at the dawn of the recording industry.

[@lotharhamburg5343]

54 yrs old rock and roller this is just awesome

[@damiancazares7994]

Happy Heavenly 109th Birthday Sister Rosetta Thorpe March 20 1915 - October 9 1973

[@patriciagraham222]

I'd like to catch your train Rosetta....what a cool song!

[@bigiron8831]

R.I.P. Sister Rosetta Tharpe Rock In Peace 🙏

[@elisabetrainbow68]

El cansancio, el calor de los focos, la peluca, el corset asfixiándola y ahí ella, dándolo todo. Yo me habría desmayado ya 3 veces. Gran artista, gran mujer!

[@canangel75]

The message never gets old..........when women were real 😢🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lucbert5846]

How protestant is this song... It would be an empty train... Heven railway would fail!... The true is that Jesus came for the bad guys...and that train is for the bad guy who reconize him self as a sinner and Jesus as the savior...Truly I Tell you you'll be here with me in heaven tonight! The Good news (Gospel means that) is that all who repent will get on that glorious train!

[@hoodatdondar2664]

That’s why those other passengers are not there.

[@DjMatchett]

A-MAZE-Zing !!! WOW. Classy, funny AND Poignantly Done. LOVE IT !!! Thank EWE !!!

[@elijahrobinson2362]

The godmother of rock and roll and a devout and faithful child of God.

[@semperfidelis2970]

Such a clear voice. Such feeling.

[@djbigleg3228]

bob marley & the wailers did this with slighly differet lyrics lol this woman had a true gift & used it to the max great original guitarist & singer great post..

[@Irisfcastellano]

Fantastic sound bravo sister

[@jeremydehart7466]

Glory to God!!✝️👈🏼❤️‍🔥🙏👍🏼

[@erictansley2085]

So important - totally the soul of rock and roll ! God bless.

[@candycandy2149]

our sister Rosetta says it best! so good!

[@briefcaseblues6061]

I've always loved the chorus, been singing "This Train is Bound For Glory" since I was a kid in the 80s and seen a thing on Guthrie. 40 yrs later I'm learning I'm not welcome on the Train, but that's okay. I've got my own ride. It might be a bit haggard and unpleasing to the eye but it will get me there non the less and when I arrive. We'll laugh and shoot the breeze like always old friends. Maybe even get a poker game going. 🥂 What a brilliant performance of this song as well.

[@DonTharp]

Beautiful

[@rogergonzales6435]

Amen 🙏 Yes

[@ericridge2135]

love that she hushed the clapping lol it was taking away

[@kirbyculp3449]

She insisted that the gospel songs were gospel songs.

[@steverobinson364]

Audience participation not required!

[@parcirecords]

Bravo Bravo!!!!! so nice my soul is burning!

[@Hockeybik]

This made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Wow.

[@jaydee9568]

wow! she was amazing in her time here on earth. Okay sister Rosetta you should be in the rocking roll Hall of Fame.

[@thorain1]

Vote now. www.rockhall.com/class-2018-nominees

[@talacocheta9001]

They inducted her! About time! pictorial.jezebel.com/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-finally-recognizes-woman-who-1821253221?

[@michaelclark9762]

She is.

[@GIsaacs]

Woooow woooow awesome yeah This Train is a clean train

[@koryblack9267]

Her voice is awesome.

[@garrischutte7943]

Hallelujah! Excellent!

[@alondra555]

¡ Buenísima intérprete ! Muchas gracias

[@JavierRockgers]

DAMN ! she just shut them all at the start !!! that´s fn' attitude !!

[@ric-annebrathwaite3791]

We sing this so differently on the Caribbean. But it's nice to know the origin

[@michaelclark9762]

This isn't the origin, which has been lost in the mists of time. The earliest recording of the song was in 1922 by the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette at the dawn of the recording industry. It had already been around forever at that time.

[@mrs.cardenas3178]

Lovely! Good'ol music, where are u this days!😕😭😭😭 It's a beautify, soulful song

[@debbiearnold6230]

What a message ❤

[@christinerobinson547]

How lovely!! Yes singing for the Father!! Bless you sister!!! See you soon!!😂❤

[@jamesbinns8528]

Hallelujah. This old white guy remembers that song from long ago. Probably from the Miracle Revival Center in Cleveland Ohio.

[@carriesutton6482]

Blown away. Love it. Cant believe i aint never heard it before. Love you Annadoll and Jeanna Bean!! Hugs to heaven Robbie Lynn ❤️

[@lisamarieclark6778]

This lady right here is the reason the Rock n Roll Hall of Fames is not worthwhile. We all know she gave it from the heartstrings for sure.

[@lzrd8460]

Just WOW! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏