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	Mance Lipscomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an influential blues singer and guitarist.
		Lipscomb was the son of an Alabama slave.
		Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was "discovered" and recorded in 1960 during the revival of country blues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mance_Lipscomb (181 words)

	Mance Lipscomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance is not properly a blues singer like John Hurt, he is a songster.
		Mance was "discovered" and recorded in 1960 after 50 years of entertaining in and around Navasota, Texas.
		Blues In G was recorded in 1965 at Newport and amply displays Mance's complex fingerpicking on guitar and his gentle vocal delivery.
	www.island.net /~blues/mancel.htm (81 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle>Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lipscomb, a sharecropper and son of slaves, was born in Brazos County in 1895 on the banks of the Navasota River.
		Lipscomb saw himself as a farmer, a guitar player and songster, a spinner of stories, a husband, the foundation of his family and a teacher for a younger generation.
		Lipscomb’s mother bought him his first guitar when he was 11 and soon he was collaborating with his father, and later alone, to entertain at suppers and Saturday night dances, which were the premier social functions of the time.
	www.theeagle.com /spotlight/music/2002articles/062702bluesbands.htm (1053 words)

	mancebio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance lived most of his life in Navasota farming as a tenant for a number of landlords in and around Grimes County.
		Mance represented one of the last remnants of the nineteenth-century songster tradtion that predated the development of the blues.
		Lipscomb and Elnora, his wife of sixty-three years, had one son, Mance Jr., three adopted children, and twenty-four grandchildren.
	www.navasotabluesfest.org /pages/03_mancebio.html (188 words)

	Mance Lipscomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lipscomb represented one of the last remnants of the nineteenth-century songster tradition, which predated the development of the blues.
		Lipscomb was born into a musical family and began playing at an early age.
		Lipscomb's own rendition of "Tom Moore's Farm" was taped at his first session in 1960 but released anonymously (Arhoolie LP 1017, Texas Blues, Volume 2), presumably to protect the singer.
	www.famoustexans.com /Mance_Lipscomb.htm (720 words)

	Robert Lowery, Mance Lipscomb, Lead Belly on Rev. Rabia the blues woman BLUES UP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance Lipscomb -Texas blues guitarist - "songster" was born in Brazos County, Texas 1895 of slave father sharecropper (farming on rented flland plantations) and a fiddle player.
		Mance with amazingly wide ranging repertoire (edited here by Chris) never sing with all verses he knew because there were just too many and he sang whatever verses came to his mind at that day.
		Mance used to played ballads and dance tunes and blues all night in a country juke joint for a dollar, he was then and later when he start recording - a "songster" not restricted himself to one form of being bluesman.
	www.bluesup.com /CDreviewsL.html (763 words)

	Mance Lipscomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance is born on 9th April 1895 in Navasota, Texas.
		Mance packs in the farming life in 1956 to move to Houston where he plays in juke joints and works in a lumber yard.
		Mance appears in two films 'The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins' in 1966 and 'A Well-Spent Life' in 1971, and due to failing health Mance retires from performing in 1974.
	www.john-meekings.co.uk /mlipscomb.html (307 words)

	FYI - April 9, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance Lipscomb, a Texas sharecropper and self-described songster whose vast repertoire included everything from straight blues and spirituals to simple folk tunes and children's songs, didn't begin recording until he was sixty-five years old.
		Lipscomb spent almost all of his working life in Brazos County, Texas, farming a twenty-acre plot of bottomland and on weekends performing at country dances, picnics, and house parties.
		Lipscomb's father, an emancipated slave and fiddler, taught him the rudiments of fiddling; later Lipscomb taught himself how to play guitar and eventually developed a supple, richly textured finger-picking style that complemented his hushed, easy-flowing vocals.
	www.dowop.org /4-9.html (1181 words)

	Mance Lipscomb in Concert: Vestapol DVD 13011dvd
		"Mance Lipscomb was a sage, a songster, a self-made man...
		Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976), the son of a former slave, lived almost his whole life in Navasota, Texas, supporting himself and his family by tenant farming.
		Within a short period of time Mance was recording albums and performing at festivals, concert halls and clubs around the country.
	www.guitarvideos.com /dvd/13011dvd.htm (194 words)

	Pictures of Mance Lipscomb and Michael Birnbaum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance and I performed at a local "juke" joint in Navasota, where the audience was VERY enthusiastic.
		My memory is that I was back in LA on a visit, Mance was to perform at McCabe's in Santa Monica, and he invited me to join him on the stage.
		Mance and I joked that it sounded like they were trying to pull the oil up with a chain.
	psych.fullerton.edu /mbirnbaum/Mance (1093 words)

	Mance Lipscomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Along with Leadbelly, Pink Anderson, and Jesse Fuller, Mance Lipscomb, from Navasota, Texas, was one of the few African American “songsters” to record extensively his remarkably wide-ranging repertoire of popular songs, blues, ballads, dance tunes, rags, spirituals, children's songs, breakdowns, jubilees, and slow-drags.
		Mance Lipscomb wasn't a blues performer, but rather was a songster who played all sorts of songs for his family and friends.
		Mance Lipscomb was a spectacularly versatile songster, and Arhoolie's Chris Strachwitz was committed to recording as much of his repertoire as possible.
	www.arhoolie.com /titles/398.shtml (568 words)

	Amazon.com: Captain, Captain: The Texas Songster: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance Lipscomb was one of Arhoolie's Chris Strachwitz's greatest finds out there in Navasota, Texas.
		Mance was a country blues performer of exceptional talent, and included all kinds of songs in his repertory: traditional blues, rags, minstrel songs, gospel, country tunes, guitar solos.
		Mance had a smooth, clear voice that was a pleasure listening to.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005YUL?v=glance (712 words)

	I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Lipscomb (1895-1976) knew how to tell a tale, and had incredible tales to tell--about race and genealogy; about his allegiance to his part-Choctaw mother; about epic beatings by his father (who could play a cigar-box fiddle like a heavenly harp).
		Mance has a way of speaking very directly and has a storytellers flare for keeping his narratives interesting.
		Lipscomb is a highly skilled story-teller and doesn't need the author's phonetic transcribtions to come across.
	www.mobilewebsystems.us /stuff-039303500X.html (592 words)

	Message Board Archive: Thread Number 79
		A few points about Mance Lipscomb's style: The thump-thump you referred to is usually just playing one bass string again and again, once per beat, so four times per measure (in 4/4 time).
		The string Lipscomb plays again and again is usually the root of the chord, i.e., if he's playing an E chord, he'll play an E in the bass, if an A chord, an A in the bass, & c.
		Lipscomb could in fact be anywhere on the neck and still be thumping away at that open fifth string.
	www.secondmind.com /abmsgbd/thr79.html (796 words)

	Mance Lipscomb CD Review
		This is the 4th CD by Mance Lipscomb, Texas songster, put out by Chris Strachwitz's Arhoolie label—but care was taken to avoid duplication with already available material.
		Mance was an adept finger-picker and often included a couple of Blind Boy Fuller numbers in the Piedmont style on his shows.
		Lipscomb became a regular on the folk circuit in 1961, his gigs did a lot to influence other younger pickers with his easy-rocking, good-dancing style.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/lipscomb-tg.html (499 words)

	Lucinda's Christmas Wish - The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar
		Bruce Willenzik, the present Armadillo Christmas Bazaar producer and owner, was booking manager for Lucinda Williams, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Shaw and others in the early seventies.
		It was his association with Mance Lipscomb that presented him an opportunity to start as Head Bean Cook and dishwasher.
		In order to give Mance a reason to live, he told Mance that if he pulled through this, he would give Mance "a hell-of-a-party." When Mance got better he asked, "Where is my party?" Bruce asked Mance where he wanted to have the party.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Makeup/2737/bazaar.htm (2488 words)

	Mance Lipscomb biography : albums : icebergradio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A proud, yet unboastful man, Lipscomb would point out that he was an educated musician, his ability to play everything from classic blues, ballads, pop songs to spirituals in a multitude of styles and keys being his particular mark of originality.
		Four years later, Lipscomb retired from the festival circuit and passed away on January 30, 1976 in his hometown of Navasota, Texas.
		With a wide-ranging repertoire of over 90 songs, Lipscomb may have gotten a belated start in recording, but left a remarkable legacy to be enjoyed.
	www.icebergradio.com /artist/424/dave_koz.html (216 words)

	Mance Lipscomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance started out accompanying his father, a local musician, at the age of eleven.
		Later on, his father deserted the family when Mance was just 16, leaving him the sole support for his family.
		Mance spent the next 50 years playing Saturday night dances in his home town.
	www.100megsfree4.com /deltabluesmn/artists/mance_lipscomb.htm (214 words)

	MANCE LIPSCOMB
		Mance Lipscomb, guitarist and songster, was born to
		Lipscomb represented one of the last remnants of the nine-
		Lipscomb was born into a musical family and began playing at an
	www.oafb.net /once150.html (652 words)

	Recording reviews : Mance Lipscomb/ Clifton Chenier/ Lightnin' Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The greatest legacy of the Sixties folk boom was the rediscovery of old blues legends and their return to the stage.
		Mance Lipscomb had never been heard outside Texas.
		Mance was 70 when he started touring; he fretted about his voice but you won't.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/lipscomb.html (358 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LIPSCOMB, MANCE
		Mance Lipscomb, guitarist and songster, was born to Charles and Jane Lipscomb on April 9, 1895, in the Brazos bottoms near Navasota, Texas, where he lived most of his life as a tenant farmer.
		Lipscomb himself insisted that he was a songster, not a guitarist or "blues singer," since he played "all kinds of music." His eclectic repertoire has been reported to have contained 350 pieces spanning two centuries.
		With compensation from an on-the-job accident, he returned to Navasota and was finally able to buy some land and build a house of his own.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fli26.html (781 words)

	scholarship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The scholarship was to be in memory of Mance Lipscomb, Navasota Bluesman.
		The monies that were to be raised would be a boon for a graduating senior – to help with their college education, and so the Mance Lipscomb Scholarship was established.
		Young people who have been awarded the Mance Lipscomb Scholarship have gone on to graduate, or are still in school.
	www.navasotabluesfest.org /pages/11_festhistory.htm (459 words)

	Blues Bytes Flashback
		This recording in turn brought Lipscomb to the attention of folk festival organizers; in early 1961, this man who had never traveled beyond Houston, 70 miles away from his home town of Navasota, was featured at the Berkeley Folk Festival.
		In the remaining 15 years of his life, Lipscomb recorded many more albums for Arhoolie, routinely committing 20 to 30 songs per session, which means there were tons of unreleased material when he died, in January 1976).
		No matter whether he is playing a blues, a rag, a story-song of a religious song, Lipscomb is equally at ease; a whole life spent playing Saturday night parties for his neighbors meant that he developed a strong rhythmic quality, while slowly transforming each song in his repertoire to suit his personality.
	www.bluenight.com /BluesBytes/fk0603.html (375 words)

	Lipscomb, Mance : Camsco Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This latest release, culled from two earlier CD reissues, showcases Lipscomb on acoustic guitar flicking and thumping bass lines and bouncing out buoyant finger-picked licks on ballads, rags and deep blues.
		Mance Lipscomb, a Texas sharecropper for most of his life, was born in 1895.
		Although Lipscomb didn't begin recording until he was nearly 65, he left behind a remarkably rich catalog of Texas blues before he died in 1976.
	www.camsco.com /artists/mance_lipscomb.html (387 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Mance Lipscomb: MAIN
		Biography of Mance Lipscomb guitarist and songster representing one of the last remnants of the nineteenth-century tradition, which predated the development...
		Mance spent his life doing two things superbly...
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	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=42637 (230 words)

	LIPSCOMB, Mance : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		Like Furry Lewis, Mississippi John Hurt and others, he played ballads, spirituals, children's songs and excellent ragtime guitar as well as blues; when they were rediscovered and began recording again, Lipscomb made his first record.
		He had played for friends and neighbours as a tenant farmer for 50 years when Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records went to Texas to record him.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/l/L79.HTM (169 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Texas Blues Guitar [Import] [Best of] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mance Lipscomb is one of the better guitarists of his time.
		Despite the uneducated bio on Mance that can be found here his guitar skills are not limited at all.
		I only have one Mance Lipscomb album a rare "Share Cropper" album on vinyl, but this CD has alot of the same songs.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000001EI (304 words)

	Gwyn Henry: Being with Mance Lipscomb in Norman, Oklahoma
		Gwyn Henry: Being with Mance Lipscomb in Norman, Oklahoma
		Mance had a gig in OkCity that night, and had come home with Bud to spend the night.
		Although there was also something more to Manceâs musicâ”grandfather was white and of course, this made all the difference in their life experiences.
	www.kintespace.com /kp_ghenry0.html (509 words)

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