Old man Solomon is the umpire, and Satan's pitchin' a game

Thursday music corner: 'Sister' Wynona Carr (1923-76), the Cleveland-born gospel and pop singer, was christened with her holy title by her then-manager Art Rupe in about 1949 in honour of her idol, the pioneering singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She recorded The Ball Game in 1952, and it typifies her idiosyncratic approach to gospel, incorporating pop culture references - in this case from sport, and in the case of the delightful Dragnet For Jesus, from prime-time television. Later she dropped the 'Sister' to embrace secular music, and stuck to rhythm and blues and rock 'n roll recordings, until a long bout with tuberculosis interrupted her touring career in 1957. According to the Women In Rock Project, for the remainder of her life, 'Carr could regularly be heard playing clubs, lounges, and hotels in her hometown of Cleveland—and occasionally in more far-flung locations including Puerto Rico'. Her gospel recordings attracted renewed attention with the release of two CDs of her work on the Specialty Records label in 1992 and 1993.