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 ...

When Arhoolie boss Chris Strachwitz released Texas songster Mance Lipscomb’s debut album in 1960, it was quite a coup. The 65-year-old guitarist was a previously unrecorded storehouse of songs-not ...

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 ...

NAVASOTA, Texas (KBTX) - It’s impossible to tell the story of Black History without Blues music, and the story of Blues music in Texas has to include the city of Navasota. The Texas Legislature ...

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 ...

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 ...

From a modest, cluttered office in El Cerrito, Calif., Chris Strachwitz has for more than 50 years recorded regional music from across Texas as well as Louisiana and Mexico. He helped discover the ...

Only since 2004 has it been called the Navasota Blues Fest, but it started in the early 1990s as a scholarship fundraiser to honor the memory of the town's blues legend, Mance Lipscomb. Since 1993, 18 ...

One of my favorite movies about the South is really more about Texas than the Deep “dirty” South, and definitely has the wrong title. It could even be considered provocative for its time, given its ...

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 ...