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Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster Vol. 5: Pure! Texas Country Blues

Styles:Songster, Country Blues
Recorded:1968-May 1973
Released:Aug 27, 2002
Label:Arhoolie
File:mp3 @320 K/s
Size:153 MB
Time:67:43
Art:front

1. Texas Blues (Lipscomb) - 4:07
2. Black Gal (Pullum) - 3:50
3. Oh, Baby! (You Don't Have to Go) - 4:24
4. Whiskey Blues (Lipscomb) - 4:17
5. Haunted House Blues - 2:52
6. Mance's Blues (Lipscomb) - 4:38
7. Does She Ever Think of Me (Lipscomb) - 4:36
8. I Just Hang Down My Head and I Cry (Lipscomb) - 2:11
9. Rag in F (Lipscomb) - 2:32
10. Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone - 3:04
11. Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night (Lipscomb) - 5:59
12. Corrine, Corrina - 2:46
13. Evil Blues (Lipscomb) - 2:48
14. Mama, Let Me Lay It on You (Lipscomb) - 2:15
15. Louise - 4:24
16. Sometimes I Feel Like (Lipscomb) - 4:12
17. Blues in the Bottle - 3:30 *
18. Angel Child (Lipscomb) - 5:15 *

Personnel:
Mance Lipscomb - Guitar, Arranger, Vocals
* with
Michael Birnbaum - Guitar
Wayne Davis - Drums
Charlie Pritchard - Guitar
Powell St. John - Harmonica


Notes:In the 1960s when the folk revival began to recognize country blues as an important art form, Arhoolie was there to capture it all on tape. It perhaps seems odd in retrospect that a number of scholars and collectors feared that the older forms of the blues had vanished from the landscape during the 1950s. Arhoolie's recordings of Fred McDowell, Lightnin' Hopkins, and other players gave ample evidence that prewar blues were alive and doing quite well, thank you. Texas Country Blues collects a number of tracks recorded by Mance Lipscomb in the late '60s and early '70s. Lipscomb may be first and foremost a blues player, but unlike Hopkins or McDowell, he broadened his repertoire to include ragtime and folk. "Rag in F" is a fun little ditty that brings to mind the bouncy piano work of Scott Joplin, while "Corrine, Corrina" and "Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone" conjure up the ghost of Leadbelly. Whatever style he's working in, however, Lipscomb delivers each song with focus and feeling. There's the delightful "Mama, Let Me Lay It on You," and there are sharp, electric versions of "Blues in the Bottle" and "Angel Child." With it's generous running time and fine selections, Texas Country Blues will serve as a superior introduction to an eclectic blues artist.

Texas Songster Vol. 5: Pure! Texas Country Blues



• The Hopkins Brothers - Texas Country Blues •
• Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Bottle On My Finger ...Blues To My Shoes •

Oznake: Mance Lipscomb, Country Blues