Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments Episode 2119 Featured Song | The Holmes Sisters - Gonna Ride This Train
Welcome to Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments. I’m Robert Darden. Billed as the Holmes Sisters, Annie Robinson and Julia Marie Holmes released a handful of 45s for the Nashboro label in the mid-1960s. We know almost nothing about them – except that the duo clearly loved Sister Rosetta Tharpe! Their uptempo guitar-fueled songs favor Sister Rosetta’s fast-paced country boogie. Even the uncredited vocalist sings a lot like Tharpe. That devotion is nowhere more apparent on the nifty Nashboro 45, “Gonna Ride This Train.” While is credited to Robinson and Holmes, it’s clearly their joyful rendition of Sister Rosetta’s “This Train” – which was probably in public domain when Tharpe first heard it as a