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LIVE IN FRANCE: THE 1966 CONCERT IN LIMOGES is a previously unissued live solo recording of the Godmother of Rock n’ Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, captured at the auditorium of the Grand Theatre in Limoges, France on November 11th, 1966.

This is an official release on producer Zev Feldman’s new Deep Digs record label. It is released in partnership with Elemental Music, and cooperation with the Sister Rosetta Tharpe Estate and INA France.

Transferred from the original tape reels, this recording was restored and mastered by multi-GRAMMY award-winning engineer Michael Graves at Osiris Studio, with lacquers cut by the legendary Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios.

1. This Train
2. When My Life Work Is Ended
3. Didn’t It Rain
4. Mother’s Prayer
5. Up Above My Head, I Hear Music In The Air
6. Moonshine
7. Sit Down
8. Down By The Riverside
9. When The Saints Go Marching In
10. Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho
11. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
12. Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves Of Bread
13. Traveling Shoes
14. Beams Of Heaven
15. That’s All / Denomination Blues
16. Going Home
17. Go Ahead
18. Bring Back Those Happy Days
19. Give Me That Old Time Religion
20. If Anybody Above Me
21. Nobody’s Fault By Mine

This magnificent flashback to a time of musical richness, opens on the _____________ of This Train, the ___________ of When My Life Work Is Ended and the _______________ of Didn’t It Rain, and along next are such wondrous tracks as the ____________ of Mother’s Prayer, the __________ of Up Above My Head, I Hear Music In The Air, the ______________ of Moonshine, the ______ of Sit Down, and then come the ___________ of Down By The Riverside, the ______________ of When The Saints Go Marching In, and the ____________ of Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho.

Along next is the ________ of Jesus Met The Woman At The Well, the ______________ of Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves Of Bread, the _______________ of Traveling Shoes, and then we get the _______________________ of Beams Of Heaven, the ___________ of That’s All / Denomination Blues, the ________________ of Going Home, the live set rounding out on the _____________ of Go Ahead, the ____________ of Bring Back Those Happy Days, the _______________ of Give Me That Old Time Religion, closing on the _______________ of If Anybody Above Me and the _____________ of Nobody’s Fault By Mine.

Includes extensive booklet with rare photos from Jan Persson, Hans Harzheim, Don Schlitten and Burt Goldblatt; essays by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, biographers Gayle Wald and Jean Buzelin; plus statements from Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland, Bonnie Raitt, Henry Rollins, Billy Gibbons and Brian Ray.

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