Mance Lipscomb - Navasota

Cat. no: CDSBR7006
Format: CD2
Barcode: 708535700623
Release Date: 08 Oct 2021
Genre: Blues

2 CD Set / Previously Unreleased Concert Recordings. Mance Lipscomb represented one of the last remnants of the 19th century songster tradition, which predated the development of the blues.

Though songsters might incorporate blues into their repertoires, as did Lipscomb, they performed a wide variety of material in diverse styles, much of it common to both black and white traditions in the South, including ballads, rags, dance pieces (breakdowns, waltzes, one and two steps, slow drags, reels, ballin’ the jack, the buzzard lope, hop scop, buck and wing, heel and toe polka), and popular, sacred, and secular songs.

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. This album represents 3 previously unreleased concert sets from ‘63, ‘64 and ‘72.

Tracks - 1972 Harvard University / Disc 2 - Texas ‘63/’64 $1.00 From Each Album Sold Will Be Donated To Knowledge-First.org, Houston, Texas 

Tracks: Texas Blues / Alabama Jubilee / See See Rider / Baby Please Don’t Go / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Done Had My Fun / Rock Me Baby / Keep On Truckin’ / Key To The Highway / Shine On Harvest Moon / All Night Long / True Religion / When The Saints Go Marching In / Rock Me Mama / So Different Blues / Shorty George Cut Down / Long Way From Tipperary / Trouble In Mind / Night Time Is The Right Time / Mama Don’t Allow / Careless Love / When Death Comes Creepin’ In Your Door (Run Sinner Run) / Motherless Children / Blues In G / Bumble Bee Blues / Rag In F / Diddy Wah Diddy / Little Brown Jug / Ella Speed / Big Black Mule To Ride / You Don’t Have To Go / Late Hour Blues / Nobody Cares For Me