Sleepy LaBeef

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Sleepy LaBeef

American musician

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
…notes that early rockabilly performer Sleepy LaBeef believed that Tharpe provided “the bedrock for rock ’n’ roll” and that Jerry Lee Lewis derived his piano style from Tharpe’s “blithely bluesy guitar work,” especially on “Strange Things Happening Every Day.” Among the other songs for which Tharpe is remembered are “Didn’t…
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…notes that early rockabilly performer Sleepy LaBeef believed that Tharpe provided “the bedrock for rock ’n’ roll” and that Jerry Lee Lewis derived his piano style from Tharpe’s “blithely bluesy guitar work,” especially on “Strange Things Happening Every Day.” Among the other songs for which Tharpe is remembered are “Didn’t…
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