Mance Lipscomb represented one of the last remnants of the nineteenth-century songster tradition, which predated the development of the blues. Though songsters might incorporate blues into their ...

His fingers worked the strings of his guitar with the fluid ease of a stream coursing over pebbles. His voice was worn, comfortable and sturdy like an old work shirt. Still, dynamic action was ...

Perhaps you’ve never heard of Mance Lipscomb. If that’s the case, it’s probably because he hasn’t set foot on a stage in almost 50 years—the prolific blues guitarist was born in 1895 and was only ...

Beau De Glen "Mance" Lipscomb (or Bowdie Glenn Lipscomb, depending on what online reference you want to believe) is one of the older artists I've featured so far in this series, and ironically one of ...

Mance Lipscomb's blues "career" began at the age of 65. A new live CD includes two performances at the University of Houston. Credit: record cover When college campuses and music cognoscenti were in ...

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A MUSICAL GRANDPA MOSES, Mance Lipscomb spent half a century singing and playing for black audiences in his hometown of Navasota before being discovered and recorded by white musicologists in 1960 at ...