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 ...

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 ...

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 had his own way of playing the Texas blues that was tinted by the fertile soil of Grimes County around Navasota. His music remains remarkably undated half a century after it was first ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives is like a portal—to other countries, to the minds of great artists, and to specific moments in time. In March, in celebration of Women’s History Month and the ...

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 ...