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Infobox musical artist|name = Mance Lipscomb|image = Mance lipscombs.jpg|landscape = yes|Caption =|background = solo_singer|birth_name = Beau De Glen Lipscomb|alias =|birth_date = birth date|mf=yes|1895|4|09|birth_place = Navasota, Texas , United States |death_date = death date and age|mf=yes|1976|01|30|1895|04|09|death_place = Navasota, Texas|origin =|genre = Blues music|Blues , Folk music|Folk |years_active = 1960–1976|label =| website = Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Mance-Lipscomb.html Oldies.com biography - accessed January 2008 was an United States|American blues singer , guitarist and songster . Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas , United States , he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ("Mance" being short for abolitionism|emancipation ).
Biography
Lipscomb was born April 9, 1895 to an ex-slave father from Alabama and a half Native Americans in the United States|Native American ( Choctaw ) mother.cite web |url= http://www.amazon.com/Say-Me-Parable-Autobiography-Lipscomb/dp/030680610X|title=Mance Lipscomb on Amazon|author=Amazon |accessdate=2009-07-15 |year=2009 |publisher= Amazon.com http://connect.in.com/profile/Mance_Lipscomb/337858 Connect.in.com Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas and was "discovered" and sound recording and reproduction|recorded by Robert "Mack" McCormick|Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz in 1960 during the country blues Roots revival|revival . He released many album s of blues , ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and folk music (most of them on Strachwitz' Arhoolie Records|Arhoolie record label|label ), singing and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar . He had a ffinger-picking guitar technique, and an expressive voice. Lipscomb often honed his skills by playing in nearby Brenham, Texas , with a blind musician, Sam Rogers. His debut release was Texas Songster (1960). Lipscomb 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 ".cite book | first= Tony | last= Russell | year= 1997 | title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray | edition= | publisher= Carlton Books Limited | location= Dubai | pages= 136 | isbn= 1-85868-255-X
Trouble in Mind was recorded in 1961, and released on a major label, Reprise Records|Reprise .Allmusic|class=artist|id=p424|pure_url=yes Allmusic biography - accessed January 2008 In May 1963, Lipscombe appeared at the first Monterey Folk Festival in California .cite book | first= John | last= Tobler | year= 1992 | title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years | edition= 1st | publisher= Reed International Books Ltd | location= London | page= 120 | id= CN 5585
Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography , I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman , narrated to Glen Alyn, which was List of works published posthumously|published posthumously , and also a short 1971 documentary film|documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life .
He died in his hometown of Navasota in 1976, two years after suffering a stroke .
Film
A Well Spent Life (1971). Documentary directed by Les Blank and Skip Gerson. El Cerrito, California: Flower Films. Released on video in 1979. ISBN 0-933621-09-4.
He also appeared in Blank's ''The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970)
Honors
An annual Navasota Blues Festival is held in his honor, and on August 12, 2011, a bronze sculpture of him was unveiled in Mance Lipscomb Park in Navasota. The statue was sculpted by artist Sid Henderson of California and weighs almost 300 pounds. It portrays Lipscomb playing his guitar whilst seated on a bench, with room for fans to sit beside him and play their own guitars "with" him.
Persondata | NAME = Lipscomb, Beau De Glen | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Lipscomb, Mance | SHORT DESCRIPTION = United States|American blues singer, guitarist and songster | DATE OF BIRTH = April 9, 1895 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Navasota, Texas , United States | DATE OF DEATH = January 30, 1976 | PLACE OF DEATH = Navasota, Texas, United States DEFAULTSORT:Lipscomb, Mance Category:1895 births Category:1976 deaths Category:African American musicians Category:American blues guitarists Category:American blues singers Category:American male singers Category:American people of Choctaw descent Category:Country blues singers Category:Native American musicians Category:Songster musicians Category:People from Grimes County, Texas Category:Musicians from Texas Category:Texas blues musicians
