Originally a Blind Lemon tune, Mance does it just right with a pocket blade. Enjoy!. + Informações

Legendary Texas blues guitar great Mance Lipscomb performs "Take Me Back" and "Goin' Down Slow." From the DVD "Mance Lipscomb in Concert." More info at www.guitarvideos.com. + Informações

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Mance Lipscomb playing 'Motherless Children'. From the documentary 'A Well Spent Life' by Les Blank.. + Informações

Presentation of various 1930's photographs of former slaves and sharecroppers set to a classic song by Texas bluesman, Mance Lipscomb.. + Informações

Stefan Grossman teaches "Charley James" by Mance Lipscomb. From the DVD "Country Blues Guitar: A Three Volume DVD Collection." More info at www.guitarvideos.com. + Informações

This is a portion of Interviews that were recorded in September 1966 in Navasota Texas by Michael Birnbaum. Most of these photographs were taken by Eddie Iwaki who accompanied Birnbaum to Navasota. Birnbaum contributed about 15 hours of recordings to Prof. Wilgus at UCLA in 1966 and they have now become part of the collection in the Ethnomusicology Library at UCLA.. + Informações

Mance Lipscomb (April 9. 1895 / January 30. 1976) was born to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother. Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was "discovered" and recorded by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz in 1960 during the country blues revival. He released many albums of blues, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and folk music (most of them on Strachwitz' Arhoolie label, singing and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. He had a fine finger-picking guitar technique, and an expressive voice. Mance was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ("Mance" being short for emancipation). - Wikipedia.. + Informações

Mance Lipscomb performs "Out and Down" and talks about this early form of blues. Mance told me that he first heard this song about 1906. Long after he could play this song, when Mance was about 25 years old, he heard Blind Lemon Jefferson sing "One thin dime," which is probably another variation of the same song. Mance commented that before it was called "blues" this style of music was called "out and down." Following the song, Mance talks about this song and songs like it that touch people's lives.. + Informações

Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 -- January 30, 1976)[1] was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (Mance short for emancipation). Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother.[2][3] Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was "discovered" and recorded by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz in 1960 during the country blues revival. He released many albums of blues, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and folk music (most of them on Strachwitz' Arhoolie label[1]), singing and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. He had a fine finger-picking guitar technique, and an expressive voice well suited to his material. Lipscomb often honed his skills by playing in nearby Brenham, Texas, with a blind musician, Sam Porter Norman. His debut release, Texas Songster (1960) revealed how broad his repertoire was. and further sets for Arhoolie made that point in greater detail. Lipscomb happily performed old songs like "Sugar Babe," the first song he ever learned, to pop numbers like "Shine On, Harvest Moon" and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary".[4] Trouble in Mind was recorded in 1961, and released on a major label, Reprise.[5] In May 1963, Lipscombe appeared at the first Monterey Folk Festival in California. Also on the bill were Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete .... + Informações

Mance Lipscomb's "A Rag" taught by Ernie Hawkins. From the DVD "The Guitar of Mance Lipscomb, Vol. 2." More info at www.guitarvideos.com. + Informações

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Mance Lipscomb (April 9. 1895 / January 30. 1976) was born to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother. Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was "discovered" and recorded by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz in 1960 during the country blues revival. He released many albums of blues, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and folk music (most of them on Strachwitz' Arhoolie label, singing and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. He had a fine finger-picking guitar technique, and an expressive voice. Mance was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ("Mance" being short for emancipation). - Wikipedia.. + Informações

I'm not going to focus on trying to make this a visual experience but rather I want to share a bit of oral music history. In the early 60's a Texas dentist and patron of the arts took his 10 year old son along "with a Realistic Cassette Recorder ...a fifth of whiskey... and some cigars... " to visit Mance Lipscomb in Navasota, TX. Sitting on the front porch you'll hear Doc Bowman prod Mance to explain Buck Dancing to his son, Jim. You'll hear Mance's oral history followed by a demonstration on the guitar, which just happens to be some of the finest fingerwork you'll hear. Grateful Dave, the originator of Lonestar Dead.. longest running Grateful Dead radio show in the world converted the original recording to digital. Thank you to a Dallas friend, Kelly Cutler, for sharing the music and history used for this video.. + Informações

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This is Mance Lipscomb playing the song Silver City. This is from a compilation video called Legends of Country Blues Guitar Volume 1.. + Informações

Jack O'Diamonds is a Texas gambling song and is usually said to describe the card game Monte. Blind Lemon Jefferson was the first to record it in 1926; it's also his only bottleneck of knife style recording. John and Alan Lomax recorded the song several times during their 1934 field trip of Texas penitentiaries. The Jack O'Diamonds lp cover you see in the beginning of this video has some great recordings of that trip. Although it's a very well known song it wasn't recorded much after the second world war. Mance Libscomb and the British skiffle king Lonnie Donegan were the only ones so far. I'm combining the versions of Mance Lipscomb and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Mance does not sing a chorus which Blind Lemon does. YOu can find Mance's version on youtube under the faulty title of 'Jack of spades'. Steve James' book/cd 'Roots and Blues' has tab of this song. I'm playing my old Stella in DADF#AD tuning. Check out my new slidelesson dvd available at www.youtuberecords.com. + Informações

The music of Texan Mance Lipscomb opens a window on the musical culture of African Americans in the early twentieth century, before the blues became a dominant genre. Lipscomb sang and played the blues, but he rejected the label of blues musician in favor of "songster," which covered the much wider range of musical types that were part of his repertoire. Discovered by a wider audience during the folk revival of the 1960s, Lipscomb performed for large audiences nationwide until his death in 1976. Bodyglin (or Bowdie Glenn) Lipscomb was born in Navasota, Texas, northwest of Houston, on April 9, 1895. His father had been a slave in Alabama, and he acquired the name Lipscomb when he was sold to a Texas family of that name. Lipscomb took the nickname Mance to honor a friend named Emancipation who had died. Music ran in Lipscomb's family, and after his mother bought him a guitar when he was 11, he began accompanying his fiddler father at local dances. Before long, Lipscomb was in demand for "Saturday Night Suppers" in and around Grimes County, Texas. In addition to his family, Lipscomb picked up musical pointers from Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson. A traveling performer asked Lipscomb to go on tour in 1922, but Lipscomb said no, and until the 1960s he rarely left the area in which he was born. He married his wife Elnora around 1913 and the two stayed married for the rest of Lipscomb's life, raising one son, Mance Jr., three adopted children, and numerous grandchildren .... + Informações

The music of Texan Mance Lipscomb opens a window on the musical culture of African Americans in the early twentieth century, before the blues became a dominant genre. Lipscomb sang and played the blues, but he rejected the label of blues musician in favor of "songster," which covered the much wider range of musical types that were part of his repertoire. Discovered by a wider audience during the folk revival of the 1960s, Lipscomb performed for large audiences nationwide until his death in 1976. Bodyglin (or Bowdie Glenn) Lipscomb was born in Navasota, Texas, northwest of Houston, on April 9, 1895. His father had been a slave in Alabama, and he acquired the name Lipscomb when he was sold to a Texas family of that name. Lipscomb took the nickname Mance to honor a friend named Emancipation who had died. Music ran in Lipscomb's family, and after his mother bought him a guitar when he was 11, he began accompanying his fiddler father at local dances. Before long, Lipscomb was in demand for "Saturday Night Suppers" in and around Grimes County, Texas. In addition to his family, Lipscomb picked up musical pointers from Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson. A traveling performer asked Lipscomb to go on tour in 1922, but Lipscomb said no, and until the 1960s he rarely left the area in which he was born. He married his wife Elnora around 1913 and the two stayed married for the rest of Lipscomb's life, raising one son, Mance Jr., three adopted children, and numerous grandchildren .... + Informações

Classic early 20th century pop tune, also coverded by Leon Redbone... Mance Lipscomb (April 9. 1895 / January 30. 1976) was born to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native American (Choctaw) mother. Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was "discovered" and recorded by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz in 1960 during the country blues revival. He released many albums of blues, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and folk music (most of them on Strachwitz' Arhoolie label, singing and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. He had a fine finger-picking guitar technique, and an expressive voice. Mance was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ("Mance" being short for emancipation). - Wikipedia.. + Informações

Time for another song after that avalanche of lessons. Mance Lipscomb recorded this song on an extremely rare lp called 'Trouble In Mind'. Author and researcher Mack McCormick was able to convince Liberty (Frank Sinatra's label) to record Mance shortly after his discovery in the early 60ies. The lp flopped and soon found its way to the cutout bins. Luckily it was reissued on cd with additional tracks recently and is well worth having. Mance must have been intimidated by his first encounter with a recording studio as he did 6 takes... The song is played in the key of E and has a mesmerising accompaniment and a very original, unusual guitar solo, it shows what a great talent Mance Lipscomb was. Steve James does also a great version of this song on one of his early cd's. John Miller teaches this song in his Texas Blues dvd (guitarworkshop.com) and although John is a great teacher I found his approach to this song too detailed. It is so that Mance plays (I believe unintentionally - the number of takes supports this) many variations in the bassline and it's impossible (boring) to learn all these, therefore I made my own arrangement with a more straightforward structure. I uploaded two lessons about this song with free tablature Link to the lesson www.youtube.com Link to the FREE TABLATURE www.daddystovepipe.com John Jackson also did a version but more in the style of Blind Lemon Jefferson and in the key of A. Here's the link to a great version by Danny Ward http I'm playing a .... + Informações

Blues guitar lessons review www.Play-Blues-Guitar.eu Guitar Lessons sales http Free Lesson Download youtunerecords.com Here's a couple of verses of the faster version of Mance's 'Goin' Down Slow' and is a copy of the short live performance found on Youtube. Blues Guitar Lessons www.play-blues-guitar.eu Classic Blues Guitar Video Site http. + Informações

An adaptation of Mance Lipscomb's song on a weissenborn guitar. If you'd like to hear some more of our tune's our 12 track acoustic blues album is on sale here www.cdbaby.com. + Informações