“I used to just walk around the house and begin singing songs that I’d never heard before, if they sounded pretty good I’d put them down on paper. In her interviews she talks about watching and participating as she made music with other artists across genre and style. It includes several notable performances including “Jericho” and “Up Above My Head There’s Music in the Air.” Moore often reflected on her travels with Rosetta. Mercury published this recording of Rosetta Tharpe’s Gospel Train in the early 20th century. I tried to get her to teach me, she wouldn’t teach you one thing not one note would she teach you.” She had to know something different she was in a class all by herself, nobody else could do it. And Rosetta came and I was living in Baltimore at the time and Rosetta came to Baltimore to run a revival. “I met Rosetta when we were both teenagers, Rosetta Thorpe I met her because we belonged to the same church organization.
On Friendship with Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The YouTube recording is of Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, a quartet style gospel group, the members of which would have been familiar to Moore, popular in the early-mid-20 th-century. “Nearer My God to Thee” is a popular hymn written by Sarah Flower Adams in the 19 th-century. I remember them having a record of ‘Nearer My God to Thee’” This is an image of the record’s packaging, which highlights Berlin as composer and Emma Carus as performer. Irving Berlin wrote “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” in 1911. “The first song that comes to my mind that I heard on the gramophone was ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’ being so young I can’t remember too many of them, but I remember that.” As Roxie Moore explains, “I can’t say I know it’s a fact but… growing up gospel music and blues music it sort of had a similar sound, a lot of it did.” On Musical Experiences Growing Up:
Through sound, foregrounded in Moore’s personal experience and commentary, I illustrate the close kinship between the musical formation of gospel, blues, and rock and roll. We end with two of her most noteworthy songwriting credits. This exhibit tracks her developmental trajectory from a childhood spent listening at the intersections of jazz, blues, and gospel music to her dear friendship with the Godmother of Rock and Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Roxie Moore is an unsung gospel songwriter of the early 20 th century, having written countless pieces for popular quartets, most notably the Dixie Hummingbirds.
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