Mance Lipscomb Navasota (2-CD)

(Sunset Blvd Records) 33 Tracks, Digisleeve
Previously unreleased concert recordings. Mance Lipscomb represented one of the last vestiges of the 19th century songwriting tradition that preceded the development of the blues.

Although songsters like Lipscomb could incorporate the blues into their repertoire, they played a variety of tunes in a variety of styles, many of which were common in both the black and white traditions of the South, including ballads, rags, dance tunes (breakdowns, waltzes, one and two steps, slow drags, reels, ballin' the jack, the buzzard lope, hop scop, buck and wing, heel and toe polka), and popular, sacred, and secular songs.

Lipscomb himself insisted that he was a songster, not a guitarist or "blues singer." as he played "all kinds of music." His eclectic repertoire is said to have included 350 pieces spanning two centuries.

This album contains 3 previously unreleased concert recordings from '63, '64 and '72.

Disc 1 - 1972 Harvard University

Disc 2 - Texas '63/'64

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