The Lonesome Road
by Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Lonesome Road by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
(Compilation album)
Year: 1941
Overall rank: 5,368th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 15 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1941 (3rd)
Award Top 10 albums of the 1940s (7th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,368th)

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe bestography

The Lonesome Road is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by Sister Rosetta Tharpe on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sister Rosetta Tharpe is Gospel Train which is ranked number 3776 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 387.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe album bestography « Higher ranked (3,776th)
Gospel Train
This album (5,368th)
The Lonesome Road
Lower ranked (18,691st) »
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(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 5,368th | 1940s rank: 7th | 1941 rank: 3rd

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73/100 (from 15 votes)
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01/27/2026 17:05 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  8,00570/100
 
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12/22/2025 02:11 Moondance  Ratings distribution  20,22072/100
 
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06/25/2025 09:21 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,79163/100
 
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04/22/2024 08:28 martintho  Ratings distribution  4,70275/100
 
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10/31/2022 11:37 jonny5244  Ratings distribution  8,43563/100

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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.

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From 04/22/2024 08:07 | #303124
All the songs/singles in the same key and tempo. Still it's great stuff.
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From 09/20/2020 01:29 | #258449
I dig this, but I have yet to find this is a legit release on Discogs, Amazon, or RYM. Would be interested to find evidence of such. Otherwise my Spotify playlist from her Decca Singles works for me, and great indeed they are.
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From 09/02/2020 23:30 | #257698
Grande coletânea da pioneira!
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Best Albums of 1941
1. The Midnight Special (And Other Southern Prison Songs) by Lead Belly
2. Teddy Wilson - Billie Holiday by Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday
3. The Lonesome Road by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
4. Southern Exposure by Josh White
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7. Swinging The Classics - Piano Solos In Swing Style With Drums by Hazel Scott
8. One O'Clock Jump by Count Basie And His Orchestra
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10. Crosbyana by Bing Crosby
11. Deep Sea Chanteys And Whaling Ballads by Almanac Singers
12. Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30 by Eugene Ormandy / The Philadelphia Orchestra
13. Lady In The Dark by Hildegarde
14. Hot Jazz Classics by Louis Armstrong's Hot 5
15. American Folk Lore Vol. 3 by John Jacob Niles
16. Golden-Voiced Canaries by Provol's Golden Birds
17. Sod Buster Ballads by Almanac Singers
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