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M A N C E   L I P S C O M B's precinct of the Brazos Bottoms; source: Glen Alyn 1999, p. 9
Mance Lipscomb's precinct of  the Brazos Bottoms
source: Glen Alyn 1999, p. 9
map drawn by Glen Alyn & Dr. Dennis Fitzsimons
a bit colorized by Stefan Wirz
Mance Lipscomb
Bowdie Glenn1) Lipscomb, as a youth took the name of  'Mance'
b. April 9, 1895 in the Brazos bottoms near Navasota, Texas
d. January 30, 1976 at the Grimes Memorial Hospital in Navasota, Texas

buried at Rest Haven Cemetery in Navasota, TX
discography
M A N C E   L I P S C O M B; source: Front cover of Arhoolie F 1001; photographer Chris Strachwitz
source: Front cover of Arhoolie F 1001; photographer: Chris Strachwitz

#year
of release
title / label / notes
11960A Treasury Of Field Recordings   Vol. 2
Regional And Personalized Song

R.G. Williams and Group - Hammer Ring
Harry Stephens - Night Herding Song
Jealous James Stanchell - Anything From A Foot Race To A Resting Place
Jack Jackson & Lightnin' Hopkins - The Slop #   @ youtube
Paul Elliott - Deep Ellum Blues
George Coleman [= Bongo Joe] - This Old World Is In A Terrible Condition

Gozy Kilpatrick - Goin' To The River
Percy Wilborn Quartet - Oh, What A Time (A History of World War II)
Jimmy Womack - Atomic Energy

Anonymous [= Mance Lipscomb] - Tom Moore's Farm *   @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins - Tom Moore's Farm ##
John Lomax Jr. - Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos
William Spross & Harvey Krueger - The Boogie Woogie Machine
R.C. Forest & Gozy Kilpatrick - Tin Can Alley
John Q. Anderson - The Waco Girl


collected by members of the Houston Folklore Group (Harold Belikoff, Ed Badeaux, Pete Seeger, Chester Bower, John Lomax, Jr., John Bryan, Mack McCormick) and compiled by Mack McCormick
## rec. July 16, 1959 in Houston, TX by Mack McCormick; Lightnin' Hopkins, voc, g
# rec. January 25, 1960 in Houston, TX; Lightnin' Hopkins, p, sp; Melvin 'Jack' Jackson, p, sp (aurally playing on one keyboard)

* rec. June 30, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick; "Anonymous" [= Mance Lipscomb], voc, g

18 pp. booklet notes (March 1960) by Mack McCormick with additions and corrections by Paul Oliver

77 LA 12/3 (UK 1960)

77 Records discography
Lightnin' Hopkins discography

21960Various unidentified Texas, New York and British Artists
The Unexpurgated Folk Songs Of Men


- The Ring-A-Rang-A-Roo
- Keeper Of The Eddystone Light
- Mamie Had A Baby
- Cocaine Bill And Morphine Sue
- Take A Whiff On Me
- The Bastard King Of England
- No Balls At All
- Barnacle Bill The Sailor
- Big Jim Folsom
- Cristoforo Columbo
- Monk Of Priory Hall
- Hootchy Kootchy Dance
- Always In The Hallway
- Merry Cuckold
- In Crawled One-Hung-Low
- Who Stole My Beer?
- Dicky Dido
- Shine And The Titanic

- You Be Kind To Me [Mance Lipscomb] #
- Boar Hog Blues [Buster Pickens Texas Alexander]
- Grubbing Hoe
- Uncle Bud
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- There's A Skeeter

- Stavin' Chain [Mance Lipscomb] #
- You Got Good Business [Buster Pickens]
- Dirty Dozens [Lightnin' Hopkins]
- Limericks
- Ball Of Kirriemuir
- Change The Name Of Arkansas


# rec. August 11, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

"... An informal song-swapping session with a group of Texans, New Yorkers, and Englishmen exchanging bawdy songs and lore, presented without expurgation ..."
collected by Robert 'Mack' McCormick

14-pp. booklet by Mack McCormick

first issued with white cover without any printing, label name 'ufsom' being the master name printed on the label


= Raglan R 51 (US 1960?)

= Arhoolie LP 4006 (US 197?) [according to 1976 Arhoolie catalog]

311/1960Mance Lipscomb: Texas Sharecropper and Songster

- Freddie (2:35) # °°   @ Spotify
- Sugar Babe, It's All Over Now (2:00) # °°   @ Spotify
- Going Down Slow (3:00) # °°   @ Spotify
- Baby Please Don't Go (1:45) # °°   @ Spotify
- Rock Me All Night Long (3:10) #   @ Spotify
- Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo (1:55) //
- Jack O'Diamonds Is A Hard Card To Play (3:55) # °°   @ Spotify

- Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) # °°   @ Spotify
- Ella Speed (2:30) # °°   @ Spotify
- One Thin Dime (2:55) # °°   @ Spotify
- Going To Louisiana (See See Rider) (2:10) \\   @ Spotify
- Mama Don't Allow (2:20) # °°   @ Spotify
- Ain't It Hard (3:10) # °°   @ Spotify
- Bout A Spoonful (3:20) \\ °°   @ youtube   @ Spotify

# rec. August 11, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

// rec. August 12, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

\\ rec. August 13, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

°° re-released on Arhoolie CD 306 (1993)



originally unissued tracks from August 11, 1960 session:
- Alabama Jubilee
- Tom Moore's Farm (tk 2) []   @ Spotify
- Out And Down
- Keep A Knocking
- Casey Jones
- St. James Infirmary
- Motherless Children
- Harvest Moon
- untitled instrumental

originally unissued tracks from August 12, 1960 session:
- Want To Do Something For You
- Shorty George (26) []   @ Spotify
- untitled instrumental
- Angel Child (28) []   @ Spotify
- Hen House Blues
- Alabama Jubilee - Parson Brown
- I Love My Baby
- Goin' Up North To See My Pony Run
- Have To Let You Go
- Black Rat (35) []   @ Spotify
- Round The Bend I See A Steamer Come
- Caledonia
- All Night Long
- Ain't You Sorry

originally unissued tracks from August 13, 1960 session:
- Foggy Bottom Blues (43) []   @ Spotify
- Heel And Toe Polka - Little Brown Jug (44) []   @ Spotify
- Silver City
- I'm Going Back To Houston
- Back Water Blues ||
- Going Back To Georgia (47) []   @ Spotify
- You Got To Reap Just What You Sow
- Baby You Don't Mean Me No Good
- Everybody Went Fishing
- Knocking Down Windows And Tearing Down Doors
- God Moves On The Water
- Easy Rider Blues (53) []   @ Spotify
- Why Did You Leave Me? (54) []   @ Spotify
- Mance's Boogie (instr)
- Me And My Baby (58) []   @ Spotify
- Mance's Talking Blues (59) []   @ Spotify
- Segregation Done Past (speech) []   @ Spotify
- Evil Heart Blues §
- Blues In The Bottle §
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Sugar Babe

|| released on Arhoolie LP 101 / F 1006 (1960)
§ released on Decca LK 4664 (1965)
[] released on Arhoolie CD 465 (1999)

photographs by Chris Strachwitz

notes & lyrics booklet by Mack McCormick
 
Arhoolie F 1001 (US 11/1960) (1st pressing, no photos on back cover, 250 copies)   Chris Strachwitz and Wayne Pope pasting the covers of the first Arhoolie Records' release "Texas Songster," 1960. Photo by Alice Pope

notes & lyrics booklet by Mack McCormick
   
Arhoolie F 1001 (US 196?) (repressings, no photos on back cover)

notes & lyrics booklet by Mack McCormick

Arhoolie F 1001 (US 1963) (later pressing, photos on back cover)


= Trio PA-3062 (Jp 197?)


(=) Arhoolie / City Hall Records F 1001 (US 2012) (reissue without notes and lyrics; includes download card)

= P-Vine PCD-93735 (Jp 7/2013)

Arhoolie Records discography
Trio Records discography

41961Blues N' Trouble / Blues 'N Trouble

Arhoolie FS 101 / F 1006 (1961 + 197?) track sequence:
Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues   @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae   @ youtube
Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues   @ youtube

Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues   @ youtube
Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper   @ youtube
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime   @ youtube

Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly   @ youtube
"Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady   @ youtube
Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth   @ youtube
Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool [Arhoolie CD 369]   @ youtube


Arhoolie F 1006 (1980) track sequence:
Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues
Lil' Son Jackson - Johnny Mae
Lowell Fulson - Good Woman Blues

Mance Lipscomb - Back Water Blues
Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime
Sidney Maiden - Chicago Blues °°   @ youtube

Black Ace - Hitchhiking Woman
Sam Chatman - God Don't Like Ugly
"Whistling" Alex Moore - Wake Up Old Lady
Black Ace - Ace's Guitar Blues °°   @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Stella Ruth
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] - Goin' Back South [aka "Down South Blues"] °°
Mercy Dee - I Been A Fool [Arhoolie CD 369]


°° 1980 version "bonus tracks", listed on labels, but not on back cover!

Black Ace rec. September 19, 1960 in Ft. Worth, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas rec. 1960 in Zachary, LA by Chris Strachwitz
Sam Chatman rec. July 25, 1960 in Hollandale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Lowell Fulson rec. c. 1949 in Oakland, CA by Bob Geddins
Fat Boy Hayes [aka 'Jelly Belly'] rec. 1947 in New York, NY
Lil' Son Jackson rec. July 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz

Mance Lipscomb rec. August 13, 1960 in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Jasper Love rec. July 23, 1960 in Clarksdale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Sidney Maiden rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz
Mercy Dee Walton rec. February 5, 1961 in Stockton, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mercy Dee, voc, p
"Whistling" Alex Moore rec. summer 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz
Robert Curtis Smith rec. July 24, 1960 at the "Big 6" Barbershop in Clarksdale, MS by Chris Strachwitz
Big Joe Williams rec. October 6, 1960 in Los Gatos, CA by Chris Strachwitz


Arhoolie FS101 front cover lay-out by Clair Moxley
Arhoolie F1006 front cover design by Wayne Pope
photos by Chris Strachwitz (except Black Ace, courtesy B.K. Turner)


I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960

Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence:
- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased]   @ Spotify
- The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.]
- Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.]
- Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006]
- Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.]
- Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd. ed.]


notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif."

Arhoolie FS101 (US 1961)

notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif."

= Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)

notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California"
   
= Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)

notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz   "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709"

(=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980)   1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!

notes by Chris Strachwitz

partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"

Arhoolie Records discography

51961Mance Lipscomb: Trouble in Mind
american folk song traditionalist

Reprise R-2012 / RV2006 / Collector's Issue C-5521 track sequence:
- Captain, Captain (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Careless Love (tk 2)   @ youtube
- When Death Come Creeping In Your Room (Run, Sinner, Run) (tk 1)  @ youtube
- Alabama Bound (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Buck Dance (instr)   @ youtube
- Night Time Is The Right Time (tk 1)   @ youtube

- Rocks And Gravel Makes A Solid Road (tk 6)   @ youtube
- Johnnie Take A One On Me (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Motherless Children (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Which-A-Way Do Red River Run (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Trouble In Mind (tk 1)   @ youtube
- Ballad Of The Boll Weevil (tk 10)   @ youtube

rec. July 7/8/9, 1961 in Houston, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick



originally unissued tracks from same sessions, issued on Rhino CD RHM2 7829:
- Boogie In A (tk 1) (instr)   @ youtube
- Hattie Green (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Bumble Bee Blues (tk 6)   @ youtube
- Shine On Harvest Moon (tk 1)   @ youtube
- Cocaine Done Killed My Baby (tk 2)   @ youtube
- Hey Lawdy Mama (tk 1)   @ youtube
- Is You Gonna Quit Me Baby (tk 1)   @ youtube
- Frankie Was A Good Woman (tk 3)   @ youtube
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey (tk 1)   @ youtube
- Black Gal (tk 1)   @ youtube
- Casey Jones (tk 1)   @ youtube
- After Hours (tk 1) (instr)   @ youtube
- Angel Child (tk 2)   @ youtube

front cover photo by Ed Badeaux
Collector's Issue C-5521: "expanded, remastered version of 'Trouble In Mind', the first-ever reissue since the album's original Reprise pressing, features another 13 performances from those same 1961 sessions"

notes by Mack McCormick

Reprise R-2012 (mono) (US 1961)

notes by Mack McCormick

= Reprise R9-2012 ([exaggerated] stereo) (US 1961)


= Vogue Reprise RV2006 (Fr 1961)

notes by Mack McCormick
 
= Reprise RS 6404 (US 1970) ([exaggerated] stereo)

notes by Mack McCormick

= Reprise RS 6404 promo (US 1970) ([exaggerated] stereo)

click to enlarge! click to enlarge!
= Collector's Issue C-5521 (Austria 198?) "Captain, Captain And Other Songs"

Numbered limited edition of 2500 copies
20-pp. booklet with original notes by Mack McCormick plus new notes by Bill Dahl

= Rhino CD RHM2 7829 (US 2000)

Collector's Issue discography

61968Texas Blues   Volume 2

Manny Nichols
- Long Skinny Mama

Mance Lipscomb
- You Don't Mean Me No Good #
Black Ace
- Beer Drinking Woman
Rattlesnake Cooper
- I'm Leaving Town
Mercy Dee & Otis Cherry
- Ebony Baby [never re-released on CD]
Isam Hisam & Lightning Hopkins
- I'm Feeling Bad
Manny Nichols
- Walking Talking Blues

Billy Bizor
- Tom Moore
Alex Moore
- Chock House Boogie
Smokey Hogg
- Hello Baby
Robert Shaw
- The Fives
Lightning Hopkins
- Hurricanes Carla & Esther
Mercy Dee / K.C. Douglas / Otis Cherry
- 8th Wonder Of The World [never re-released on CD]


# rec. May 2, 1964 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

notes (1964) by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie F 1017 (US 1968)

Arhoolie Records discography

71964Mance Lipscomb: Texas Songster   Volume 2

- Joe Turner Killed A Man
- Bumble Bee
- Silver City
- If I Miss The Train
- Alabama Jubilee
- God Moves On The Water (The Titanic) (tk 3)

- Come Back Baby
- Charlie James (tk 2)
- Boogie In A
- Key To The Highway (tk 1)
- Cocaine Done Killed My Baby
- Spanish Flang Dang
- You Got To Reap What You Sow

rec. May 2, 1964 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g
cover photo by Ben Jacopetti



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- So Different Blues []
- You Rascal You []
- Mama Don't Dog Me []
- Key To The Highway (tk 2)
- Long Way To Tipparary []
- Big Boss Man
- Angel Child
- Willie Poor Boy []
- Tall Angel At The Bar []
- I Looked Down The Road And I Wondered []
- Nobody's Fault
- You Gonna Quit Me Baby
- Tom Moore Blues []
- Tearing Down (inc)
- Missouri Waltz []
- Hattie Green []
- Police Station Blues []
- Sentimental Blues []
- Lord Thomas []
- You Don't Mean Me No Good ||

|| released on Arhoolie F 1017 (196?)
[] released on Arhoolie CD 398 (1993)

notes (1964) by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie F 1023 (US 1964)


= Fontana 688 805 ZL (UK 1967) "Texas Songster"

Arhoolie Records discography
Fontana Records discography

81965Conversation With The Blues
A Documentary of Field Recordings by Paul Oliver

LP tracks:
Boogie Woogie Red - So Much Good Feeling (spoken, with own piano)
Willie Thomas - A Little Different spoken
James Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead (Cage, vocal and fiddle; Thomas, vocal and guitar)
Lil' Son Jackson - The Onliest Way (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - My Father's Style (guitar solo)
J.B. Lenoir - So It Rocked On (spoken)
J.B. Lenoir - Move To Kansas City (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - When She Comes Back (spoken)
Otis Spann - Poor Country Boy (vocal, with own piano)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't No Easy Thing (spoken)

Mance Lipscomb - Evil Heart Blues (vocal and own piano) #
Blind Arvella Gray - A Roughneck (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues (vocal and guitar)
Will Shade - Days Of Nineteen-Hundred (spoken)
Will Shade - Newport News Blues (vocal and own guitar)
Whistling Alex Moore - Chock House Days (spoken)
Whistling Alex Moore - Come and Get Me (vocal and own piano)
Brother John Sellers - Move Back For What? (spoken)
J. B. Lenoir - I Been Down So Long (vocal and own guitar)

Jasper Love - Santa Fé Blues (vocal and piano)
John Lee Hooker - Somewhere Down The Line (spoken)
Robert Curtis Smith - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change (vocal and own guitar)
Otis Spann - Only Places They Can Go (spoken)
Otis Spann - People Calls Me Lucky (vocal and own piano)
Henry Townsend - What Have I Committed (spoken)
James Butch Cage - Tween Midnight And Day (vocal and own guitar)
Little Brother Montgomery - Walking Basses (spoken)
Little Brother Montgomery - Dud Low Joe (piano solo)
Little Brother Montgomery - It's A Barrelhouse Blues (spoken) []
Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (vocal with piano)
Little Brother Montgomery - They Beat Me To Chicago (spoken) []
Roosevelt Sykes - They All Called Him 'Pork Chops' (spoken)
Roosevelt Sykes - Forty-Four Blues (vocal and own piano)
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Doctor Clayton And Me (spoken) []
Robert Junior Lockwood & Sunnyland Slim - Take A Little Walk With Me (vocal with own electric guitar, with Sunnyland Slim, piano) []
Edwin Buster Pickens - To Have The Blues Within (spoken)

Mance Lipscomb - Blues In The Bottle (vocal and own guitar) #

CD tracks:
- So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red
- A Little Different - Willie Thomas
- Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas
- The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson
- My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir
- When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann
- Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins

- Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb #
- A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray
- West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade
- Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore
- Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers
- Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir
- A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson []
- Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown []
- They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer []
- Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens
- Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith
- Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love
- Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker
- I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith
- Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann
- What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend
- 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage
- Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes

- Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb #
- To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens
- Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens []


All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960
# rec. August 13, 1960 in Navasota, TX

LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!

notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver    Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.)
 
Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)

 

LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:


London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965)   xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm

 
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965)   xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

 
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)


Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)


Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR)   translated by Yasufumi Higurashi

91965Mance Lipscomb Vol. 3
Texas Songster in a Live Performance

- Take Me Back Baby (L-95) *
- Shine On Harvest Moon (L-63)
- Rag In G (L-126) *
- Heel And Toe Polka
- Big Boss Man (L-74) *
- You Gonna Quit Me (L-75) *
- Blues In G (L-65) *

- Mama Don't Dog Me (L-49) *
- Willie Poor Boy (L-53) *
- Polly Wolly Doodle All Day (Tra-La-Ra-La ...) (L-97)
- Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night *
- Knocking Down Windows (L-105) *
- Nobody's Fault But Mine (L-35) *
- Motherless Children (L-36) *

rec. November 25-29, 1964 by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g



originally unissued tracks from November 25, 1964 session:
- Shine On Harvest Moon (L-1)
- Ella Speed (L-2)
- A One On Me (L-3)
- Motherless Children (L-4)
- Goin' Down Slow (L-5)
- Key To The Highway (L-6)
- Baby Please Don't Go (L-7)
- Spoonful (L-8)
- Darktown Strutter's Ball (L-9)
- I Ain't Got Nobody (L-10)
- Bottle Up And Go (L-11)
- Mama Don't Allow (L-12)
- Sugar Babe (L-13)
- Freddie (L-14)
- Jack O'Diamonds (L-15)
- Rock Me Mama (L-16)
- Tra-Ra-La Doodle All Day (L-17)
- Blues In G (44 Blues) (L-18)
- Shorty George (L-19)
- Titanic (L-20)
- Buck Dance (Stop Time) (L-21)
- Angel Child (L-22)
- Willie Poor Boy (L-23)
- Spanish Flang Dang (L-24)
- Mean Boss Man (L-25)
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No More (L-26) []

originally unissued tracks from November 26, 1964 session:
- Trouble In Mind (L-27) []
- Ella Speed (L-28)
- Tom Moore's Farm (L-29) (3:40) # []   @ youtube
- Bumble Bee (L-30)
- Alabama Jubilee (L-31)
- Come Back Baby (L-32)
- Meet Me In The Bottom (L33) #
- Run, Sinner, Run (L-34)
- Albert And Frankie (L-37)
- Shake Shake Mama (L-38)
- You Know I Love You (L-39)
- You Gonna Miss Me (L-40) []
- Keep On Truckin' (L-41) []
- Black Rat (L-42)
- Charlie James (L-43)
- improvised fast blues (L-44)
- Mance's Short Haired Woman (L-45) []
- Wake Up In The Morning (L-46)
- Key To The Highway (L-47)
- Sailin' Down Cheaspeake Bay (L-58)

originally unissued tracks from November 27, 1964 session:
- Night Time Is The Right Time (L-50)
- Rocks And Gravel (L-51)
- Skinny Minnie (L-52)
- Joe Turner Blues (L-54) #
- Spanish Flang Dang (L-55)
- Trouble In Mind (L-56)
- Keep On Trucking (L-57) §
- Baby Please Don't Go (L-58)
- Spoonful (L-59)
- Buck Dance (L-60)
- Alabama Bound (L-61) #
- Come Back Baby (L-62) #
- You Got To See Your Mama Every Night (L-64) #
- Run, Sinner, Run (L-66) §
- The Titanic (L-7)
- Out And Down (L-68) #
- Alabama Jubilee (L-69)
- Angel Child (L-70) #
- Frankie And Albert (L-71)

originally unissued tracks from November 28, 1964 session:
- Brown Skin Woman (L-72)
- You Rascal You (L-73) #
- After Hours (L-76)
- Long Way To Tipparary (L-77)
- Sugar Babe (L-78)
- St. Louis Blues (L-79)
- Charlie James (L-80)
- Shake, Shake, Mama (L-81)
- You Are My Sunshine (L-82)
- Baby, Don't You Lay It On Me (L-83) #
- One Thin Dime (L-84)
- Tall Angel At The Bar (L-85) #
- The Titanic (L-86)
- Willie Poor Boy (L-87)
- Angel Child (L-88)
- Skinny Minnie / Trial Blues (L-89)
- Back Water Blues (L-90)
- Baby Please Don't Go (L-91)
- Red River (L-92)
- Nobody's Fault But Mine (L-93)
- Ain't It Hard (L-94)
- Goin' Down Slow (L-96)
- Key To The Highway (L-98) []
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find (L-99)
- I Ain't Got Nobody (L-100)
- Blues In G (L-101)
- untitled instrumental (L-102)
- Mama Don't Allow (L-103)
- Oh You Beautiful Doll (L-104)
- Spoonful (L-106)
- Motherless Children (L-107)
- Johnny Take A One On Me (L-108) #
- Buck Dance (L-109) #
- Police Blues (L-110)
- Rock Me Mama (L-111) []

originally unissued tracks from November 29, 1964 session:
- ...

§ released on Arhoolie LP 1033 (1967)
# released on Arhoolie LP 1077 (1978)
[] released on Arhoolie CD 482 (1998)

notes by Paul Oliver
 
Arhoolie F 1026 (US 1965)

# Arhoolie CD 306 (US)

Arhoolie Records discography

101966Lightning Hopkins, Clifton Chenier, Mance Lipscomb:
the 2nd annual Berkeley Blues Festival

Concert & Dance

Mance Lipscomb
- Stop Time (instr) (151)
- I Ain't Got Nobody (-)
- Take Your Arms From Around My Neck (-)
- Sugar Babe (-)
- When The Saints Go Marching In (-)
Clifton Chenier
- Clifton's Rock
- After Hours
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

Lightning Hopkins
- Last Night
- Going To Louisiana
- Black Cadillac
- Short Haired Woman
- Lightning's Boogie


rec. April 15, 1966 at a concert in the Harmon Gymnasium on the University of California campus in Berkeley, CA by Radio station KAL; edited by Dan McClosky and Chris Strachwitz

 
Arhoolie F 1030 (US 1966)

= Arhoolie CD 484 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography
Lightnin' Hopkins discography

111967Mance Lipscomb   Vol. 4

- Captain Captain (River Blues) (144)   @ youtube
- Ain't You Sorry (147)   @ youtube
- Night Time Is The Right Time (158)   @ youtube
- Mr. Tom (instr) (155)   @ youtube
- I Want To Do Something For You (156)   @ youtube
- So Different Blues (157)   @ youtube
- A Rag (She Got Good Booty) (instr) (153)   @ youtube

- Long Tall Girl Got Stuck On Me (162)   @ youtube
- Keep On Trucking (L-57) #   @ youtube
- Run, Sinner, Run (L-66) #   @ youtube
- Reminiscences at UCSB [aka "Early Days Back Home"] / Farewell (Farewell Blues) (161) *   @ youtube

rec. April 1966 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g
# rec. November 1964 live at the Cabale in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g
* rec. April 1966 at the University of California at Santa Barbara by Peter Feldman; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

cover photo by Les Blank

notes (1967) by Pete Welding     Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA     //     Arhoolie Records - P.O. Box 9195 - Berkeley, Calif. 94719

Arhoolie F 1033 (US 1967 / 1970s)

notes (1967) by Pete Welding     Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA     //     Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709

= Arhoolie F 1033 (US 197?)

Arhoolie Records discography

121968(?)Texas Blues "The Early '50s"

Smokey Hogg
- Penitentiary Blues
- Penitentiary Blues, part 2
Mercy Dee
- Lonesome Cabin Blues
Frankie Lee Sims
- Lucy Mae Blues
John Hogg
- West Texas Blues
- Black Snake Blues
Frankie Lee Sims
- I'm Long, Long Gone
Buddy Chiles
- Mistreated Blues

Anonymous [Mance Lipscomb]
- Tom Moore's Farm # (5:34)   @ youtube
L.C. Williams
- Trying, Trying
Texas Alexander
- Crossroads
L.C. Williams
- Hole In The Wall
Lightning Hopkins
- Late In The Evening


# rec. May 2, 1964 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g [assuming this is the same recording as on Arhoolie CD 398]

note by Paul Oliver

Blues Classics BC-16 (US 1968?)

Blues Classics discography

131968The Roots Of America's Music

LP 1:
Country Blues
Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down
Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe [Arhoolie 1001]
Black Ace - New Triflin' Woman
Alex Moore - July Boogie
Big Joe Williams - Greystone Blues
Lil Son Jackson - Roberta
John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times
Lowell Fulson - River Blues

City Blues
Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turnrows
Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country
Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues
Big Mama Thornton - Unlucky Girl
Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues
Larry Williams - I Know You Hear Me Calling
Johnny Young - Wild Wild Woman


LP 2:
Gospel & Jazz
Bukka White - Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World
Jesse Fuller - Amazing Grace
Rev. Overstreet - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder
Kid Thomas - Eh La Bas
Joe Turner - Old Piney Brown's Gone
Luna - Nisaba In The Grass

Country, Cajun & Folk
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Run Mountain
Del McCoury - Dreams
The Hodges Brothers - Carroll County Blues
Luderin Darbone - Crowley Waltz
Nathan Abshire - Cajun Two Step
Alice Stuart - Once I Had A Sweetheart
Crabgrass - Charles Giteau
James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go


compilation of tracks previously on Arhoolie LPs; ed. & prod. by Chris Strachwitz
no previously unissued tracks!

2-disc package
notes by Pete Welding

Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968)


= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)

Arhoolie Records discography

141969Blues Roots

LP 1:
- Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell
- Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott
- Long Haired Doney - R.L. Burnside
- Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams
- Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and "Washboard Willie" [= Wayne Pope!]   @ youtube
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith


- Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb
- Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- I Am the Black Ace - Black Ace
- Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore
- Texas Blues - L. and M. Fulson
- The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw
- Take a Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins


LP 2:
- Bear Cat - John Jackson
- Snowing and Raining - Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly
- Got A Date I Can't Be Late - Jesse Fuller
- You Got Another - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane
- Struggle Here - Juke Boy Bonner and Simon
- Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman
- Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner

- Dream - Little Willie Littlejohn
- Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton
- I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thorton
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier
- Two Bugs - Earl Hooker


"The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz"

gatefold DLP

Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969)
= RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969)


= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp)

= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978)

gatefold DLP

= Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989)

2 CD set
notes by Bill Dahl

= Tomato CD TOM-3001 (US 2002)

151969Mance Lipscomb   Vol. 5
Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs

- Black Gal
- Texas Blues
- Oh, Baby #
- Blues In The Bottle *
- Angel Child *

- Mance's Blues
- Whiskey Blues
- Long Way From Tipperary
- Haunted House Blues
- Mother Had A Sick Child
- I'm Looking For My Jesus

* rec. December 5, 1968 at Mance Lipscomb's house in Navasota, TX by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g; Frank Lipscomb, b; Wayne Davis, dr

all other tracks rec. November 20 & 22, 1969 at Sierra Sound Studios in Berkeley, CA; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g; # Mark Birnbaum, 2nd g; prod. by Chris Strachwitz

cover photos by Kelly Hart


Arhoolie 1049 (US 1969)


= Arhoolie AR 19007 (EU 1969)

Arhoolie Records discography

15a1972Rod Kennedy Presents
Kerrville Folk Festival
1972 Highlights Recorded "Live" At Kerrville, Texas

Peter Yarrow - This Will Be
Allen Damron - A Little Bit Late (6:08)
Carolyn Hester - Summertime (3:48)
John A. Lomax Jr. - Long John (2:52)
Texas Fever - Drunken Lady Of The Morning (4:51)

Mance Lipscomb - Texas Blues (3:26) #   @ youtube
Dick Barrett - Orange Blossom Special (2:53)

Segle Fry - Candy Creek Reunion And Picnic (4:57)
Robert Shaw - Put Me In The Alley (3:49)   @ youtube
Steve Fromholtz - Birds And Wolverines (5:52)
Bill And Bonnie Hearne - Tennessee Green (5:02)
Peter Yarrow - When Day Is Done (5:18)


only 1,000 copies pressed
the very 1st Kerrville Folk Festival, prod. by Rod Kennedy
The 1972 and 1973 Kerrville Folk Festivals were held indoors
# rec. June 1-3, 1972 live at Kerrville Municipal Auditorium in Kerrville, Tx; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

notes by Rod Kennedy

P S G NO. 20 (US 1972)

10 CD set, limited to 500 copies
notes by Rod Kennedy
(=) Silverwolf / Kerrville CD 1009 (US 1997)

# Silverwolf SWKCD 1016 (US 1999)

Robert Shaw discography

161972The Great Blues Men

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 1:
Homesick James - Set A Date
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road
Sleepy John Estes - Corinna °°
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues

Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G
Rev. Gary Davis - If I Had My Way °°

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Key To The Highway
Otis Spann - Burning Fire
Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues
Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business

Vanguard VSD 25/26, LP 2:
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues
Junior Wells - Stormy Monday Blues °°
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues
Son House (+ Al Wilson) - Empire State Blues °°
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby

Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues
J. B. Hutto - Please Help
Fred McDowell - Fred's Ramblin' Blues
Ida Cox - Four Day Creep °°
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VCD 115/16 (US 1991), Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2]   @ youtube
Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World


°° not on CD

design by Jules Halfant; front cover collage by Eric Von Schmidt

Vanguard VCD 25/26:
Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44)
John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05)
Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55)
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40)

Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33)
Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15)
Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35)
Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04)
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38)
Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15)
Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36)
Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55)
Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06)
James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23)
Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45)
Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10)
J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52)
Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05)
Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43)
Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972)

gatefold DLP
notes Leroy J. Pierson

= Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972)

DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet
notes Leroy J. Pierson

Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986)

notes Leroy J. Pierson

(=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988)

lots of further editions at www.discogs.com

Newport Folk Festival discography
Mississippi John Hurt discography
Reverend Gary Davis discography
Reverend Robert Wilkins discography
Skip James discography
Sleepy John Estes discography
Yank Rachell discography
Hammie Nixon discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Jesse Fuller discography
John P. Hammond discography
Dave Van Ronk discography

171974Mance Lipscomb   Volume 6

- Does She Ever Think Of Me   @ youtube
- I Just Hang Down My Head And Cry   @ youtube
- Rag In F (instr)   @ youtube
- Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone *   @ youtube
- Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night (6:00) #   @ youtube
- Corinne, Corinna   @ youtube

- Evil Blues   @ youtube
- Mama, Let Me Lay It On You   @ youtube
- Louise   @ youtube
- When Death Comes Creeping In Your Room   @ youtube
- Sometimes I Feel Like   @ youtube

rec. May 1973 at Arhoolie House in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g; # Powell St. John, hca; * Charlie Pritchard, g; prod. by Chris Strachwitz

cover photo by Jim Crockett; back liner photos by Chris Strachwitz

notes by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie 1069 (US 1974)

Arhoolie Records discography

181976Great Bluesmen Newport

Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie
- Levee Camp Blues
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door
John Lee Hooker with Bill Lee on bass
- Tupelo
- Bus Station Blues


Son House
- Son's Blues
- Death Letter Blues #

- Pony Blues (with Mance Lipscomb, 2nd g)
Sleepy John Estes
- Mailman Blues
- Clean Up At Home
Doc Reese
- Hey Rattler / Oh My Lord


Mississippi John Hurt
- Sliding Delta
- Trouble, I've Had It All My Day
Skip James
- Hard Times Killing Floor Blues
- Cherry Ball Blues #
- Illinois Blues
The Reverend Gary Davis
- Death Don't Have No Mercy

Willie Doss
- Catfish Blues
- I Had A Woman
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Lord, I'm Going Down South
- If The River Was Whiskey
Lightnin' Hopkins with Samuel Lay
- Cotten Fields Blues
- Shake That Thing


front cover drawing by Eric Von Schmidt

°° note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package"

gatefold DLP
notes by Maynard Solomon
click to read track list ! gatefold inner sleeve, left side; click to enlarge!gatefold inner sleeve, right side; click to read Maynard Solomon notes!
Vanguard VSD-77/78 (US 1976)

gatefold DLP
notes by Maynard Solomon
click to read track list! gatefold inner sleeve, left side; click to enlarge!gatefold inner sleeve, right side; click to read Maynard Solomon notes !
= Vanguard VSD-77/78 (Fr 1976)


= King/Vanguard LAX-155 (Jp 1976)

notes (December 1988) by Samuel Charters

(=) Vanguard CD 77/78 (US 1989) (2 LPs on 1 CD) °° "Great Bluesmen At Newport 1959-1965"

191978Mance Lipscomb: You'll Never Find Another Man Like Mance

- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Tom Moore's Farm (3:40)   @ youtube
- Playing Music in Texas (speech)
- Keep On Trucking
- Joe Turner Blues
- Alabama Bound
- You Got To See Your Mama Every Night
- Out And Down

- Angel Child
- Playing Dances in Texas (speech)
- You Rascal You
- Mance's St. Louis Blues
- Baby, Don't Lay It On Me
- Tall Angel At The Bar
- Johnny Take A One On Me & Buck Dance

rec. November 26-28, 1964 before an audience at the old Cabale in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

front cover photo by Jim Marshall; liner photo [Mance Lipscomb, Billy Neely & Taj Mahal at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, 1971] by Burton Wilson

notes by Chris Strachwitz     Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA
click to read notes !
Arhoolie 1077 (US 1978)

notes by Chris Strachwitz     Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA
click to read notes !
= Arhoolie 1077 (US 1980s)

Arhoolie Records discography

201989Mance Lipscomb: Texas Songster

- Sugar Babe (It's All Over Now) #
- Going Down Slow #
- Freddie #
- Jack O' Diamonds #
- Baby Please Don't Go #
- One Thin Dime #
- Shake, Shake, Mama #
- Ella Speed #
- Mama Don't Allow #
- Ain't It Hard #
- Bout A Spoonful #
- Take Me Back Babe *
- Rag In G *
- Big Boss Man *
- You Ain't Gonna Quit Me *
- Blues In G *
- Mama, Don't Dog Me *
- Willie Poor Boy *
- Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night *
- Knocking Down Windows *
- Nobody's Fault But Mine *
- Motherless Children *

rec. 1960-64; contains tracks from Arhoolie F 1001 (#) and F 1026 (*)
all photos by Chris Strachwitz

notes (1960) by Mack McCormick and (1989) by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 306 (US 1989)

notes (1960) by Mack McCormick and (1989 & 2000) by Chris Strachwitz

= Arhoolie CD 306 (US 2000)

Limited to 500 copies
(=) Wax Love LP WLV82104 (EU 2018)

Arhoolie Records discography

211993Mance Lipscomb: So Different Blues

- So Different Blues
- See You Mama Every Night
- Late Hours Blues
- Nobody Cares For Me
- Shorty George Cut Down
- Corrina, Corrina
- Rock Me Mama
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- Good As I Am To You
- Long Way To Tipperary
- Get Away Blues
- Trouble In Mind
- Going Down Slow
- Baby Please Don't Go



unissued tracks from same session:
- After Hours
- I Ain't Got Nobody To Care For Me
- Ella Speed
- Sugar Babe
- Dark Town Strutters Ball
- Night Time
- Mama Don't Allow
- Motherless Children
- Baby You Goin' To Quit Me
- What Time Of Day
- Missouri Waltz
- Heel & Toe Polka
- Boogie Woogie



rec. 1965 in Navasota, TX by Joe Kosmo & Roy C. Ames; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

notes by Bo Svensson

Collectables CD COL-5289 (US 1993)

221993Mance Lipscomb: You Got To Reap What You Sow
Texas Songster Vol. 2

- Charlie James
- Come Back Baby
- Spanish Flang Dang
- You Got To Reap What You Sow
- Cocaine Done Killed My Baby
- Joe Turner Killed A Man
- Bumble Bee
- Boogie In A
- Hattie Green (previously unreleased)
- Silver City
- The Titanic
- If I Miss The Train
- Lord Thomas (previously unreleased)
- Tom Moore Blues ("previously unreleased") [actually Blues Classics BC-16] #
- So Different Blues (previously unreleased)
- Tall Angel At The Bar (previously unreleased)
- Mama, Don't Dog Me (previously unreleased)
- Long Way To Tipperary (previously unreleased)
- Willie Poor Boy (previously unreleased)
- You Rascal You (previously unreleased)
- I Looked Down The Road And I Wondered (previously unreleased)
- Sentimental Blues (previously unreleased)
- Police Station Blues (previously unreleased)
- Missouri Waltz (previously unreleased)

expanded version of F 1023 with 13 previously unissued songs

# rec. May 2, 1964 in Berkeley, CA by Chris Strachwitz; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g
cover photo by Ben Jacopetti

notes (1993) by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 398 (US 1993)

notes (1993) by Chris Strachwitz

= Arhoolie CD 398 (US 2005)

Arhoolie Records discography

22a1993Blues With A Feeling
Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival

disc 1 / Vanguard VCD 73133-2:
- Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) #
Son House (1965) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Preachin' Blues (3:54) [Vanguard VSD 79225] #
- Death Letter (4:01) [Vanguard VSD 79225] #
- Empire State Express (3:50) # [Vanguard VSD 25/6; 3VCD 208-10]
Skip James (1964 blues workshop, introduction most likely by Bill Barth) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Devil Got My Woman (4:52)   @ youtube
Bukka White [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10]
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (5:00)
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues (5:26) °° [Vanguard VRS 9180; 3VCD193/95-2]
Mississippi Fred McDowell [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Louise Louise (3:05)
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round (3:48)   @ youtube
Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (3:06)   @ youtube
Fred and Annie Mae McDowell with Rev. Robert Wilkins
- What Do You Think About Jesus (5:43)   @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins (July 23, 1965 morning "Blue Guitar" workshop) [ Vanguard VCD 79715-2]
- The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) (3:22)   @ youtube
- Come On Baby (2:13)   @ youtube
- Baby Please Don't Go (2:46) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube

Mance Lipscomb [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Freddie (2:01) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube
- So Different Blues (2:33)   @ youtube
- God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) (2:36)   @ youtube

disc 2 / Vanguard VCD 73134-2:
Elizabeth Cotten
- Freight Train (4:02) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Here I Am Lord, Send Me (3:54)
- Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:20)
Jesse Fuller [Vanguard VRS-9185; 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10]
- San Francisco Bay Blues (2:51) °°
John Lee Hooker (1964 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Blues (2:48)   @ youtube
Muddy Waters (1968 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- Walkin' Blues (4:31)   @ youtube
- I Can't Be Satisfied (3:16)   @ youtube
Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon
- Five Long Years (2:26) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake with Pete Seeger, bj
- Wrinkles (instr) (3:28)
Dave Van Ronk
- Cocaine (3:44) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
John Hammond
- Drop Down Mama (2:50)
Eric Von Schmidt
- Grizzly Bear (4:55) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]
John Koerner
- Traveling Blues (4:49) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube
The Chambers Brothers [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]
- See See Rider (3:21) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 23, 1965)
- Blues With A Feeling (4:12) * [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube
- Look Over Yonders Wall (2:10) *   @ youtube
- Born In Chicago (4:08) ** [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2]   @ youtube


compilation prod. by Mary Katherine Aldin
# rec. 1965 live at Newport Folk Festival ("Blues Workshop") in Newport, RI; Son House, voc, g
* rec. July 23, 1965 at an afternoon workshop called "Blues: Origins and Offshoots" (late addition to the roster - advertisements for the concert series make no mention of the group); Paul Butterfield, voc, hca; Michael Bloomfield, g; Elvin Bishop, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr; Nick Gravenites, voc; ** Bruce Langhorne, tamb


"all tracks previously unreleased except" °°

2 CD set
notes (May 1993) by Mary Katherine Aldin

Vanguard VCD2-77005 (US/Germany 1993)


(=) Vanguard VCD 73133-2 (US 1997) "part one"


(=) Vanguard VCD 73134-2 (US 1997) "part two"

231994Mance Lipscomb: Texas Blues Guitar

- Ain't It Hard
- Big Boss Man
- Bout A Spoonful
- Freddie
- Knockin' Down Windows
- Mama Don't Allow
- Mama, Let Me Lay It On You
- Motherless Children
- Rag In G
- Shake, Shake Mama (Cherry Ball)
- So Different Blues
- Sugar Babe
- Take Me Back
- Willie Poor Boy
- You Got To Reap What You Sow

prod. & edited by Chris Strachwitz
An Arhoolie Special Product release produced for Mel Bay Publications as a companion to their book "Mance Lipscomb: Texas Blues Guitar Solos" which contains lyrics and guitar transcriptions to all fifteen songs heard on this CD


Arhoolie CD 001 (US 1994)


Mel Bay "Mance Lipscomb: Texas Blues Guitar Solos" instruction book

Arhoolie Records discography

241995Folk Music at Newport, Part 1

Patrick Sky - Separation Blues
Ian & Sylvia - Someday Soon
Ian & Sylvia - Play One More
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys - Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Bill Monroe, Peter Rowan, Tex Logan - Shady Grove
Lightnin' Hopkins - The Woman I Am Loving, She's Taken My Appetite
Cyprien Landreneau - Danse De Blackberry Briar
Rev. Gary Davis - I Will Do My Last Singing In This Land Somewhere
The New Lost City Ramblers - Gold Watch And Chain
Maybelle Carter - Wildwood Flower
Eck Robertson, The New Lost City Ramblers - Forked Deer / Eighth Of January
Kathy & Carol - A Swallow Song
Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk 'Em In The Evening Blues
Pete Seeger - Oh Mary Don't You Weep
Joan Baez, Donovan - Colours
Cousin Emmy, The New Lost City Ramblers - Free Little Bird

Mance Lipscomb - The Sinking Of The Titanic
Charles River Valley Boys - I'll Meet You In The Morning
Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - Sadie Green (The Vamp Of New Orleans)
Bill Keith, Jim Rooney - Little Sadie
Richard & Mimi Farina - Celebration For A Grey Day
Kingston Trio - M.T.A.
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man
The Chambers Brothers - I Got It


rec. at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival


Vanguard CD 77007-2 (US 1995)

251996Mance Lipscomb: Mama Don't Allow

- Nobody Cares For Me
- Good As I Am To You
- Goin' Down Slow
- Rock Me Mama
- So Different Blues
- Late Hours Blues
- Shorty George Cut Down
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- See You Mama Every Night
- Corrina, Corrina
- Long Way To Tipperary
- Trouble In Mind
- Get Away Blues
- Goin' Down Slow
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Night Time Is The Right Time
- Mama Don't Allow

rec. in 1964 in Nova Sota, TX; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g; prod. by Joe Kosmo
photography by Roy Ames

notes by Bo Svensson

Magnum MACD 073 (US 1996)

261996Arhoolie presents American Masters   Vol. 1
15 Down Home Country Blues Classics

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Line [Arhoolie 1027, CD 304]   @ youtube
Lightning Hopkins - Have You Ever Loved A Woman [Arhoolie 1063]   @ youtube
John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025, CD 378]   @ youtube
Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson - Cairo Blues [Arhoolie 1004, CD 352]   @ youtube

Mance Lipscomb - 'Bout A Spoonful [Arhoolie 1001, CD 306]   @ youtube
Black Ace - Drink On Little Girl [Arhoolie 1003]   @ youtube
Snooks Eaglin - Country Boy Down In New Orleans [Arhoolie CD 348]   @ youtube
Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues [Arhoolie 1005]   @ youtube
Dr. Ross - Shake 'em On Down [Arhoolie 1065, CD 371]   @ youtube
Robert Pete Williams - Just Tippin' In (4:10) [Arhoolie CD 394]   @ youtube [not "Just Trippin' In", as youtube video suggests]

Jesse Fuller - Hump In My Back [Arhoolie CD 360]   @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Brother James [Arhoolie 1002, CD 315]   @ youtube
Smoky Babe - I'm Broke And I'm Hungry [Arhoolie 2019, CD 440]   @ youtube
R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie [Arhoolie 1042, CD 402]   @ youtube
K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues [Arhoolie CD 432]   @ youtube


prod. and edited by Chris Strachwitz
cover photo (Big Joe Williams) by Chris Strachwitz


Arhoolie CD 101 (US 1996)

Arhoolie Records discography

27199?Mance Lipscomb At Home in Texas



Catfish CD CTF 100?

Catfish Records (US) discography

281993Ruff Stuff
The Roots of Texas Blues Guitar

Nathaniel "Bill" Barnes
- Jack Of Diamonds Is A Hard Card To Play
Lee Mackey
- Out And Down
- Jay Bird Blues

Willie Menifee (voc, hca) & Mance Lipscomb (g)
- If I Get Lucky, Mama (3:37)   @ youtube
Mance Lipscomb
- Angel Child (4:20)   @ youtube
Mance Lipscomb (voc, g) & Teodar Jackson (violin)
- Reconsider Baby (3:58)   @ youtube
Bill Neely
- Matchbox Blues
Nathaniel "Bill" Barnes
- What's Wrong, Baby

Babe Stovall
- Worried Blues (5:16)
- Dirty Mistreater (6:14)
T.J. Jackson
- Out And Down
- Corrina Corrina
Oscar "Preacher" Nelson & Newton "Hoss" Nelson
- Broke And Ain't Got A Dime
- Alcohol Blues
Jimmy Nelson
- West Texas Blues


rec. 1964-1966 by Tary Owens

notes by Tary Owens & Julie Howell
click to read liner notes!
Catfish CD CTF 1003 (US 1993)

Catfish Records (US) discography

28a1996Mance Lipscomb   Songster

- Corrine, Corrina (2:55)   @ youtube
- Captain, Captain (3:10)
- Alabama Jubilee (2:01)   @ youtube
- I Wan't To Do Something For You (2:35)   @ youtube
- Evil Blues (3:07)   @ youtube
- Mr. Tom (2:08)   @ youtube
- Mother Had A Sick Child (3:07)   @ youtube
- Texas Blues (4:07)   @ youtube
- Long Way From Tipperari (2:22)   @ youtube
- Haunted House Blues (2:54)
- Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone (3:03)   @ youtube
- A Rag (1:29)
- Louise (4:33)
- Ain't You Sorry (2:20)   @ youtube
- Joe Turner Killed A Man (3:06)   @ youtube
- Alabama Bound (1:59)   @ youtube
- Tom Moore's Farm (live) (3:40)   @ youtube
- Baby Don't You Lay It On Me (2:23)   @ youtube
- Johnny Take A One On Me & Buck Dance (3:25)   @ youtube
- Farewell (3:49)   @ youtube

Original Arhoolie recordings; rec. between 1964 and 1973 by Chris Strachwitz; compiled Tony Russell
photos by Chris Strachwitz

magazine written by Chris Smith & Tony Russell
. . .    
   
Orbis (De Agostini Group) magazine # 85 (English language) (UK 1996) plus accompanying CD Orbis BLU NC 085 resp. cassette BLU NM 085
28b1997Kerrville Folk Festival: Early Years 1972-1981@ youtube (10 CD playlist - false track sequence, 'cause the first track is not counted in!)

disc 1 (1972):
Peter Yarrow - This Will Be // Allen Damron - A Little Bit Late (6:08)
Carolyn Hester - Summertime (3:48)
John A. Lomax Jr. - Long John (2:52)
Texas Fever - Drunken Lady Of The Morning (4:51)

Mance Lipscomb - Texas Blues (3:26) #   @ youtube
Dick Barrett - Orange Blossom Special (2:53)
Segle Fry - Candy Creek Reunion And Picnic (4:57)
Robert Shaw - Put Me In The Alley (3:49)   @ youtube
Steve Fromholtz - Birds And Wolverines (5:52)
Bill And Bonnie Hearne - Tennessee Green (5:02)
Peter Yarrow - When Day Is Done (5:18)


# rec. June 1-3, 1972 live at Kerrville Municipal Auditorium, Kerrville, TX; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

10 CD set
notes by Rod Kennedy

Silverwolf/Kerrville SWC 1009 (US 1997)

291998Mance Lipscomb Live! at The Cabale
Texas Songster Vol. 4

- Baby Don't You Lay It On Me °°
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- You Gonna Miss Me
- Keep On Truckin' °°
- Trouble In Mind
- Tom Moore's Farm (live) (3:40)   @ youtube
- Mance's Short Haired Woman
- Tra-La-Ra-La Doodle All Day
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- Run Sinner, Run °°
- Key To The Highway
- Rock Me Mama
- Wonder Where My Easy Rider Done Gone
- Late Night Blues & Boogie Woogie
- Early Days Back Home (talking) °°
- Cocaine Done Killed My Baby
- I Wonder Why
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
- You Gonna Quit Me Baby
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Mother Had A Sick Child

rec. 1964 & 1972; °° from Arhoolie F 1033, all other tracks previously unreleased

notes (1965) by Paul Oliver & (July 1999) by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 482 (US 1998)

Arhoolie Records discography

301999Mance Lipscomb: Captain Captain!
Texas Songster Vol. 3

- Captain, Captain!
- Ain't You Sorry
- Night Time Is The Right Time
- Mr. Tom's Rag (guitar solo)
- I Want To Do Something For You
- Long Tall Girl Got Stuck On Me
- Rag In A (guitar solo)
- Goin' Up North To See My Pony Run (previously unreleased)
- Santa Fe Blues (previously unreleased)
- Frankie And Albert (previously unreleased)
- Sentimental Piece In G (previously unreleased, guitar solo)
- Farewell Blues
- Shorty George (previously unreleased)
- Angel Child (previously unreleased)
- Black Rat (previously unreleased)
- Tom Moore's Farm (M-7; previously unreleased, tk 2) (3:30) #   @ Spotify
- Foggy Bottom Blues (previously unreleased)
- Heel And Toe Polka (previously unreleased)
- Going Back To Georgia (previously unreleased)
- Easy Rider Blues (previously unreleased)
- Why Did You Leave Me? (previously unreleased
- Me And My Baby (previously unreleased)
- Mance's Talking Blues (previously unreleased)
- Segregation Done Past (previously unreleased, story)

rec. summer 1960 in Navasota and April 1966 in Berkeley (some of it on F 1033)
# rec. June 30, 1960 in Navasota, TX

cover photo by Kelly Hart

notes by Pete Welding and Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 465 (US 1999)

Arhoolie Records discography

311999Blues At Kerrville

Dave Van Ronk
- Another Time And Place (4:11)   @ youtube
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
- Sometimes I Feel Myself Slippin' (8:48)   @ youtube
Roy Book Binder
- Kentucky Blues (2:46)   @ youtube
Marcia Ball
- My Man Is A Two Timer (4:42)   @ youtube
Josh White Jr.
- I Can Be Had (6:18)   @ youtube
Angela Strehli
- Telephone Blues (4:55)   @ youtube
Marcia Ball
- Under Love's Spell (5:15)   @ youtube
Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan
- Honey Bee (4:09)   @ youtube

Mance Lipscomb
- Texas Blues (3:26) #   @ youtube
Robert Shaw
- Put Me In The Alley (3:49)   @ youtube
Juke Boy Bonner
- I've Had The Blues (3:32)   @ youtube
Spider John Koerner
- Midnight Special (2:28)   @ youtube
Kenneth Threadgill
- Mississippi Delta Blues (3:20)   @ youtube


The 1972 and 1973 Kerrville Folk Festivals were held indoors; prod. by Rod Kennedy
# rec. June 1-3, 1972 live at Kerrville Municipal Auditorium in Kerrville, Tx; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g

# Silverwolf CD SWC 1009


Silverwolf SWKCD 1016 (US 1999)

321999Catfish, Carp, and Diamonds
35 Years of Texas Blues

- Way Out On The Desert - Grey Ghost
- Write My Mama One More Letter - Dave Tippen with Group
- Stewball - Ebbie Veasley with Group
- The Titanic ; The Signifyin' Monkey - Ebbie Veasley
- Jack Of Diamonds Is A Hard Card To Play - Tommy Wright
- May The Circle Be Unbroken - Alfred "Snuff" Johnson   @ youtube
- Let The Church Roll On - Eugene Grigsby and Group
- Stand By Me - James Thomas and Group   @ youtube
- The Jives Of Dr. Hepcat - Rev. Lavada Durst, "Dr. Hepcat"
- Watchin' Every Devil - Grey Ghost

- Tom Moore Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Frank Robinson   @ youtube
- Navasota Blues - "Guitar" Curtis Colter
- 24 Hours A Day - T.D. Bell
- Erbie's Bounce - Erbie Bowser
- You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You - Grey Ghost


rec. c. 1965-1999 at various locations in Texas by Tary Owens
Front cover photo (of Grey Ghost & Tary Owens) by Jon Foose
Back cover photo (of Mance Lipscomb & Tary Owens, 1965) by Burton Wilson

notes by Tary Owens

Catfish CTF-1004 (US 1999)

Catfish Records (US) discography

332000Clifton Chenier, Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins
Live! At the 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival"


Mance Lipscomb
- Stop Time
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Downtown Blues
- Shake, Shake, Mama
- The Sinking Of The Titanic (God Moves On The Water)
- Take Your Arms From Around My Neck, Sugar Babe
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Clifton Chenier
- Intro & Louisiana Shuffle
- French Zydeco
- Clifton's After Hours
- Scratch My Back
- Everybody Calls Me Crazy
- What'd I Say
- Old Country Waltz
- Louisiana Waltz
- Clifton's Boogie Woogie
Lightning Hopkins
- If You Don't Want Me
- I Feel So Good
- Last Night
- Goin' To Louisiana
- Black Cadillac
- Short Haired Woman
- Lightnin's Boogie


Arhoolie F 1030 (US 1966)


Arhoolie CD 484 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography

342000Mance Lipscomb: Trouble In Mind

- Corrina, Corrina
- Rock Me Mama
- Mama Don't Allow
- Get Away Blues
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- Good As I Am To You
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Get Away Blues
- Trouble In Mind
- Going Down Slow
- Night Time Is the Right Time
- Long Way To Tipperary
- So Different Blues
- Ella Speed
- See You Mama Every Night
- Late Hours Blues
- Nobody Cares For Me
- Shorty George Cut Down

rec 1964 at Mance Lipscomb's home in Navasota, TX; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g
photographer: Roy C. Ames

notes by Amanda Sulak

Aim CD 1306 (Australia 2000)

34a2000Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary

disc 1:
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased)
- Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas

- Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb
- Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith [Arhoolie F 1005]
- One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas
- Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers
- Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Brother James - Big Joe Williams
- Lady Luck - Mercy Dee
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith
- Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer
- Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier
- Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell
- Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet
- Low Down Blues - George Lewis
- The Country Blues - J.E. Mainer
- Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers
- She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased)
- Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell

- Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb
- Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier

disc 2:
- Cindy - John Jackson
- Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton
- La Betaille - Isom Fontenot
- Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire
- Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury
- In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet
- Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Visions - Sonny Simmons
- I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe
- Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore
- The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams
- Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods
- El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte
- Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
- Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite


disc 3:
- Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre
- Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band
- Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot
- Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely
- Luzita - Narciso Martinez
- Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio
- Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio
- One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris
- Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier
- En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard
- Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express
- Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw
- I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band
- El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha
- La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco
- Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim
- J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read
- Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr.
- Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza


disc 4:
- Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez
- Co-Fe - John Delafose
- Single Girl - Rose Maddox
- Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot
- Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon
- Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr.
- La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased)
- Shake What You Got - Preston Frank
- Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge
- Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory
- Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin
- Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez
- Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan
- La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon
- Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet
- Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil
- Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier
- El Canoero - Valerio Longoria
- Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff


disc 5:
- Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers
- Gumagarugu - Chatuye
- Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi
- A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta
- Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band
- Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson
- J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
- La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles
- Falling For You - Rose Maddox
- Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased)
- Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway
- Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom
- Jale Griego - Jose Moreno
- El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr.
- What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent


Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan

5 CD box
66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald

Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)

Arhoolie Records discography

352001Newport Folk Festival
Best of the Blues 1959-68


disc 1:
Mississippi John Hurt
- Sliding Delta
- Candy Man
- Coffee Blues
- Stagger Lee
- Here I Am Lord Send Me
- Pallet On Your Floor
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman (3:23)
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Son House
- Preaching Blues
- Death Letter Blues
- Empire State Express
- Son Blues
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Louise
- If The River Was Whiskey
Muddy Waters (solo)
- Walkin' Blues [Vanguard VCD2-77005]
- I Can't Be Satisfied [Vanguard VCD2-77005]


disc 2:
Robert Pete Williams
- Levee Camp Blues
- Midnight Boogie
- On My Way From Texas

Mance Lipscomb
- Freddie
- So Different Blues
- God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic)
Jesse Fuller
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Double Double Do Love You
Rev. Gary Davis
- Samson And Delilah
- I Won't Be Back No More
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Intro/The Train Is Leaving °°
- Drink Muddy Water °°
- Long Gone
- Key To The Highway
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door
Sleepy John Estes
- Clean Up At Home


disc 3:
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Woman I'm Lovin' She's Taken My Appetite
- Baby Please Don't Go
Lightnin' Hopkins & Samuel Lay
- Shake That Thing
John Lee Hooker & Bill Lee
- Tupelo
- Bus Station Blues
- Let's Make It °°
- Great Fire Of Natchez °°
- Boom Boom °°
- I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby
Memphis Slim
- How Long °°
- Black Cat Crossed My Path °°
- Harlem Bound °°
- Piano Instrumental °°
Muddy Waters & Otis Spann
- Blow Wind Blow °°   @ youtube
- Flood (= "Clouds In My Heart") °°   @ youtube
Chambers Brothers
- CC Rider
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Blues With A Feeling
- Born In Chicago °°


compilation prod. by Tom Vickers
front cover painting by Meredith Steele
°° 12 previously unreleased tracks

3 CD set
notes by John Milward

Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2 (US 2001)

362002Mance Lipscomb: Texas Contry Blues Vol. 5

- Texas Blues
- Black Gal
- Oh, Baby! (You Don't Have To Go)
- Whiskey Blues
- Haunted House Blues
- Mance's Blues
- Does She Ever Think Of Me
- I Just Hang Down My Head And I Cry
- Rag In F
- Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone
- Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night
- Corrine, Corrina
- Evil Blues
- Mama, Let Me Lay It On You
- Louise
- Sometimes I Feel Like
- Blues In The Bottle
- Angel Child

from previous Arhoolie LPs


Arhoolie CD 9026 (US 2002)

Arhoolie Records discography

372003Mance Lipscomb: American Folk Song Traditionalist Sings Trouble In Mind

- Captain, Captain (tk 2)
- Careless Love (tk 2)
- When Death Come Creeping In Your Room
  (Run, Sinner, Run) (tk 1)
- Alabama Bound (tk 2)
- Buck Dance (instrumental) (tk 2)
- Night Time Is The Right Time (tk 1)
- Rocks And Gravel Makes A Solid Road (tk 6)
- Johnnie Take A One On Me (tk 2)
- Motherless Children (tk 2)
- Which-A-Way Do Red River Run (tk 2)
- Trouble In Mind (tk 1)
- Ballad Of The Boll Weevil (tk 10)

CD bonus tracks:
- Boogie In 'A' (instr) (tk 1)
- Hattie Green (tk 2)
- Bumble Bee Blues (tk 6)
- Shine On Harvest Moon (tk 1)
- Cocaine Done Kill My Baby (tk 2)
- Hey Lawdy Mama (tk 1)
- Is You Gonna Quit Me Baby (tk 1)
- Frankie Was A Good Woman (tk 3)
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey (tk 5)
- Black Gal (tk 1)
- Casey Jones (tk 1)
- After Hours (instr) (tk 1)
- Angel Child (tk 2)

rec. July 7 / 8 / 9, 1961 in Houston, TX by Chris Strachwitz and Mac McCormick
front cover and liner photos by Ed Badeaux

expanded, remastered version of 'Trouble In Mind', the first-ever reissue since the album's original Reprise pressing, features another 13 performances from those same 1961 sessions

20-pp. booklet with original notes by Mack McCormick plus new notes by Bill Dahl

Rhino CD RHM2 7829 (US 2003)

382003Roots Of The Blues

disc 1 "Folk Blues":
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47)
The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08)
John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39)
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53)
Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46)
Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °°
Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44)
Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19)
Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51)
Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °°
Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °°
Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °°
Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34)

Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) # °°

disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues":
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50)
Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53)
Son House - Empire State Express (3:50)
Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34)
Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53)
Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37)
Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59)

Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50)
Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59)
Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10]   @ youtube
Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12)


disc 3 "Urban Blues":
Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21)
Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14)
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03)
Otis Spann - Marie (2:28)
James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03)
Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17)
Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26)
The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23)
Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30)
Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55)
Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18)
Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01)


compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr

# rec. 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival; Mance Lipscomb, voc, g
°° previously unreleased tracks

3 CD set
notes by Ed Ward

Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002)
= Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)

39200?Mance Lipscomb: Mance's Boogie

- Had My Fun   @ youtube
- ???

2000: "soon to be released" (first issues of 30 volume Tary Owens collection)
read more


Antones CD 54
[obviously never happened]

402005Blues With A Message

- I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman
- John Henry - John Jackson [Arhoolie 1025 1970]
- Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee

- Tom Moore's Farm (live) - Mance Lipscomb (3:40) [Arhoolie 1077]
- Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- River Blues - Lowell Fulson
- Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell
- The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins
- Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason
- Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross
- Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams
- I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis
- Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson
- Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton
- What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner
- It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner
- Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston
- Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams


ed. by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver

notes (2005) by Paul Oliver

Arhoolie CD 510 (US 2005)

on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins

Arhoolie Records discography

412009The Best Of Mance Lipscomb

- Baby, Don't Lay It On Me
- Charlie James
- So Different Blues
- Long Tall Girl Got Stuck On Me
- Joe Turner Killed A Man
- Willie Poor Boy
- Shake, Shake Mama
- The Titanic
- Mance's Blues
- Tom Moore's Farm (live) (3:40) [Arhoolie 1077]
- Rag in G
- Ain't It Hard
- Captain, Captain
- Freddie
- Take Me Back, Babe
- Jack O' Diamonds
- Sugar Babe
- Ain't You Sorry
- Run, Sinner, Run
- Angel Child
- Blues In The Bottle
- Texas Blues

all selections previously released on Arhoolie CDs 306, 398, 465, 482 & 9026

notes (October 2009) by Chris Strachwitz & Adam Machado

Arhoolie CD 537 (US 2009)

Arhoolie Records discography

422010Hear Me Howling!
Blues, Ballads, and Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s

CD 1:
- Hump in My Back - Jesse Fuller *
- Brother Low Down - Jesse Fuller *
- Berkeley's Junko Partner - Skid Band *
- Tight Like That - Skid Band *
- Moose March - Bob Mielke's Bearcats +
- Highway 49 - Big Joe Williams *
- Oakland Blues - Big Joe Williams with Mary Williams *
- Greystone (Alameda County Jail) Blues - Big Joe Williams
- I Know You Didn't Want Me - K.C. Douglas and band +
- Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas and band
- Stop Time - K.C. Douglas and band *
- Hear Me Howling - K.C. Douglas and band
- Stand Alone Blues - Lonnie Johnson *
- Brenda - Lonnie Johnson *
- Changed The Lock On My Door - Sonny Terry *
- Bald Eagle Train (tk 1) - Bukka White *
- Tom Moore's Farm - Lightning Hopkins *
- Up On Telegraph (Avenue) - Lightning Hopkins
- Lady Luck - Mercy Dee

CD 2:
- I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish +
- You Turned Your Back - Toni Brown +
- How Could I Stand It - Toni Brown +
- Don't Forget Me, Love - Toni Brown +
- Charles Giteau - Crabgrass +
- Midnight Blues - The Joy of Cooking *
- Depression Gone From Me - T.A. Talbott +
- Mr. Brakeman - T.A. Talbott *
- Who's Going To Be My Man? - Debbie Green *
- Come See - Bob Neuwirth *
- Lady Gay - Janet Smith +
- Talking Protest Blues - Merritt Herring +
- Black Jack David - Alice Stuart
- Eventually - Perry Lederman +
- Impressions Of John Henry - Perry Lederman +
- Deportees - Barbara Dane
- Grand Texas - Hackberry Ramblers *
- Jolie Blonde - Hackberry Ramblers *
- Turtle Tail - Hackberrry Ramblers *
- The Beatles Are In Town - The Fondettes +


CD 3:
- Willie Poor Boy - Mance Lipscomb   @ youtube
- The Titanic - Mance Lipscomb
- Mean Boss Man - Mance Lipscomb
- Sugar Babe - Mance Lipscomb
- Working on a Building - Rev. Louis Overstreet *
- The Old Ship Of Zion - Rev. Louis Overstreet *
- I'm A Soldier - Rev. Gary Davis *
- Floor Sweepin' Boy - Rev. Gary Davis *
- Courtin' Boy - Rev. Gary Davis *
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell
- Louise - Fred McDowell
- Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Fred McDowell *
- Low Down Dirty Things - Skip James *
- 22-20 Blues (Mr. Kress) - Skip James *
- Sea Walking Jesus - Skip James *
- No Special Lover - Skip James *
- Peace In The Valley - Skip James *
CD 4:
- Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong - Vern & Ray *
- The Touch Of God's Hand - Vern & Ray *
- 'Fore Day In The Mornin' - Big Mama Thornton *
- Ball And Chain - Big Mama Thornton *
- Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton *
- Monsieur Leonard - John Semien & the Opelousas Playboys *
- Chi Ca Nai - John Semien & the Opelousas Playboys +
- Bye Bye Rosa - John Semien & the Opelousas Playboys *
- Mr. Charlie - Clifton Chenier *
- Louisiana Rock - Clifton Chenier
- What Am I Doing Here? - Notes from the Underground +
- To Be A Thief - Stanley Willis *
- Pretty Good - NOW Creative Arts Ensemble +
- In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn
- To 'Trane (aka: Two Trains) - Smiley Winters
- The Beauty Of Isis - Sonny Simmons


* = previously unreleased
+ = first time on CD

136-pp. book + 4 CD set
notes by Adam Machado

Arhoolie CD 518 (US 2010)

432013Legendary Country Blues Guitarists

Charlie Burse & Will Shade
- Kansas City Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Trouble In Mind
- Backwater Blues
Son House
- Talk About The Blues
- So Hard To Love Someone
Skip James
- Cherry Ball Blues
- Son House
- Sick And Bad Blues
Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
- Tombstone Blues
- Brownsville Blues,
Rev. Gary Davis Blind Gary Davis
- A Documentary by Harold Becker
Blind Connie Williams
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord
- I'm Going Too
Ralph Willis & Washboard Pete Sanders
- Dream I Had On My Mind
- I've Been Living With The Blues
- Midnight Special
Sam Chatmon
- Sales Tax Blues
- Outside Friend
- Fishing Blues (Evil Jackson)
- Glad When You're Dead

Mance Lipscomb
- I Want To Do Something For You
- Alabama Jubilee
Henry Johnson
- Blood Red River
Willie Trice
- Be Your Dog
- Run Here Gal
- Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
- Good Time Boogie, Sweet Sugar Mama
- Stand And Welcome Jesus
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Son House & Buddy Guy
- I Wish I Had My Whole Heart In My Hand



Vestapol DVD 13129

442014The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3

disc 1: The 1960s
Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50)
John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19)
Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05)
Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03)
Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01)
Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06)
Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45)
Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27)
Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07)
Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21)
Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11)
R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25)
Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36)
Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42)
Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43)
Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19)
J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25)
Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52)
Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42)
Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30)
Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13)
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53)
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56)


disc 2: The 1970s
Son House - Empire State Express (3:41)
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59)
J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59)
Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06)
R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45)
Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46)
Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04)
John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15)
Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33)
Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20)
Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33)
Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50)
Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18)
Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53)
Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26)
Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19)
Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44)
Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10)
Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37)
Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58)
Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24)
Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56)
Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18)


front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner

112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl

Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)

 

Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Glen Alyn: I Say Me For A Parable - The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, as told to and compiled by Glen Alyn.- New York / London (W.W. Norton & Company), 1993
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 363
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2006, p. 
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (2nd edition).- Vancouver 2012, p. 382-385

- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970 (3rd edition).- Vancouver (Eyeball Productions) 2019, p. 392-395
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, p. 277
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1966 - A complete guide to 20 years of recorded blues.- London/New York (Oak Publications), 1968.- p. 197-198
- Mike Leadbitter, Leslie Fancourt & Paul Pelletier: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. two, L to Z.- London (Record Information Services), 1994, p. 71-78

- Ebay auctions
- diverse other internet resources

1) Biographer Glen Alyn (from what he understood of Lipscomb's narrative) in his biography spelled Lipscomb's given name as "Bodyglin", which proved wrong, since the name actually had been "Bowdie Glenn", a derivation of "Beau de Glenn"

thanks to Michael Birnbaum, Anthony R. Glass, Steve Franz, Juan Urbano López and Michael Hortig for additional information

 

Mance Lipscomb bio

Pictures of Mance Lipscomb and Michael Birnbaum

Mance Lipscomb: Captain Blues

 

Alyn, Glen: I Say Me For a Parable - The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lispcomb (W. W. Norton & Co. 1993); click to enlarge!
Glen Alyn: I Say Me For a Parable
The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lispcomb
W. W. Norton & Co. 1993

 

Mance Lipscomb's 'teethiz'; photographer: Glen Alyn; click to enlarge!
Mance Lipscomb's 'teethiz'
source: I Say Me For A Parable: The Aural Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, as told to and compiled by Glen Alyn.- New York, London (W.W. Norton & Company) 1993, p. 444; photographer: Glen Alyn

 

video clip from 'A Well Spent Life' (Les Blank 1971)
Les Blank: A Well Spent Life.- 1971 film (Kay Jazz on Video 055); click to enlarge!
Les Blank's "A Well Spent Life" 1971 film (Kay Jazz on Video 055)

 

Masters of the Country Blues: Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins.- Yazoo video 502; click to enlarge!
Mance Lipscomb Guitar Books, Records, Videos
at www.torvund.net

Feb. 9-11, 1968 Avalon Ballroom poster, designed by Joel Beck
Poster used to promote a pair of shows featuring the Siegel Schwall Band, Buddy Guy, Hour Glass and Mance Lipscomb Feb. 9-11, 1968 at the Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, designed by Joel Beck
Oct. 11-13, 1968 Avalon Ballroom poster, designed by Wes Wilson
Poster used to promote a pair of shows featuring the Grateful Dead, Lee Michaels, Mance Lipscomb and Linn County Oct. 11-13, 1968 at the Avalon Ballroom San Francisco; designed by Wes Wilson
October, 1970 Armadillo World Headquarter handbill, artwork by Jim Franklin; click to enlarge!
Handbill used to advertise the October, 1970 concerts at the Armadillo World
Headquarters by Freddie King and Mance Lipscomb, artwork by Jim Franklin

source: eBay auction

 

October, 1970 Armadillo World Headquarter handbill, artwork by Jim Franklin; click to enlarge!
Mance Lipscomb
source: David Harrison: Die Legenden des Blues - Eine Hommage in Bildern.- Königswinter, Germany (HEEL-Verlag) 1995, p. 44
photographer: Chris Strachwitz

 

 

 

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