The Lonesome Road
by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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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 3911 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 370.
(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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The Lonesome Road track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Lonesome Road rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 82 Music Albums of the 1940s | 18/82 | 16 |
| 2026 | arnellarsen | 1941 - The Very Best Albums | 10/75 | - |
| 2025 | Olli | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 18/100 | 79 |
| 2024 | Olli | Top 68 Music Albums of 1941 | 9/70 | - |
| 2024 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1940s | 2/100 | 20 |
| 2024 | martintho | Top 15 Music Albums of the 1940s | 3/15 | 17 |
| 2022 |  zwiebel | Top 15 Music Albums of the 1940s | 1/15 | 20 |
| 2020 |  Graeme2 | Top 14 Music Albums of the 1940s | 9/14 | 9 |
| 2020 |  RoundTheBend | Top 91 Music Albums of the 1940s | 21/91 | 16 |
| 2020 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1940s | 23/99 | - |
| 2020 | space22ify | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1940s | 6/100 | 19 |
| 2020 | TheNowhereGuy | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1940s | 6/100 | 19 |
| 2020 |  StefanR10 | Top 98 Music Albums of the 1940s | 5/98 | 19 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 233 | |||
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The Lonesome Road ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12/22/2025 02:11 | Moondance | 20,000 | 72/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2025 09:21 |  Igtonumama | 10,791 | 63/100 |
| ! | 04/22/2024 08:28 | martintho | 4,701 | 75/100 |
| ! | 10/31/2022 11:37 | jonny5244 | 8,422 | 63/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2022 11:51 | habibi333 | 925 | 73/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.
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All the songs/singles in the same key and tempo. Still it's great stuff.
RoundTheBend 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.
VictorVale 09/02/2020 23:30 | #257698
Grande coletânea da pioneira!
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