Mance Lipscomb: Two Songs

[Enternology]

what i wouldn't give for a look at his hands while he's playing that first song...

[smulkin1]

@Enternology Yeah. That camera man was an idiot.

[issac503]

only two songs?

[MartinTimothy1]

The anti white racist comments attached to this video, make my guts turn! Google The MLK's in Dallas, to see Martin Luther King and his wretched wife in a snipers nest in that city, at the murder of President Kennedy, 22 November 1963, Mrs K had so graciously invited them into her home just weeks before.

In response blacks are on a warnin', to keep at least one rifle shot away from me and my household .. this guy is an ok player, but I didn't come here for racism!

[rastablues1]

1) Mance said himself (on an album called "Texas Songster") that "Take me Back" was the oldest song he knew...He was born in 1895 ....Hurt recorded his first record in 1928....While there are similarities with MJH's style, the author of "Take Me Back" is unknown....

2) Yes..3) Yes...4)Yes

Send me your e-mail and I'll send you two mp3s of Mance where he discusses "Take Me Back".

Hasta!

[MrFabiodagostino]

great.but looks like a john hurt song,doesn'it ?

[rastablues1]

@MrFabiodagostino : No.

[MrFabiodagostino]

@rastablues1 which is the difference?do you know john hurt?his discography?do you know country blues?

[walosi24]

white zombies...flee

[belikewater001]

My favorite guitar player of all time....and the worst audience I've ever seen...The white intellectuals embracing the "folk-blues-as-sociological phenomenon"..Hilarious.

I'da rather seen him in a bar.

[murf751]

@belikewater001 This is like 1960. Excuse the audience for not being black enough or cool enough. Maybe... just maybe they were fans of Manse, and you are hatin on them. What a crock!

[mojokiss]

white people frowning and smoking with sunglasses 

[murf751]

@mojokiss why are u hatin on his fans? gheez man knock it off. The only racism is from you!

[mojokiss]

@murf751 i'm just saying - this guy has guts for performing in front of what i'd consider the opposite of his element. as an entertainer i find it topical because it took me forever to get used to this kind of audience. however maybe Mance appreciated the environment, i hope so!

[0607883486]

Bravo Monsieur Mance Lipscomb!

Bravo également au caméraman qui à saisi ces clichés et ces moments dans le public!

Bravo au monteur, qui nous fait partager ce moment avec un regard aiguisé!

Michel (France)

[richone99]

The audience look like anthropologists from the Smithsonian. Probably getting their research for their collecitive Phd.'s, on the musical abilities/traits of the descendents of American slavery. Little do they know that Mance has their number.

[mojokiss]

@richone99 thank you! its obviously a crazy scene. but i think its just the fact its a college class. if you view Jim Hall giving one of these (old white man playing jazz guitar) the kids are just the same and its from today, so i think its a university/college thing

[givingvoice2003]

Love this guy...but why did they put dead people in the audience?

[speck444]

those people in the audience are pickin his style apart like a chicken bone good luck you have to be born to it

[howlingsandy]

I played drums with him in 1969. He knew 3000 songs.

[busessuck1]

@howlingsandy Must've been an experience... where can I find some of them sessions that your featured on... is it like the quartet that played with fred mcdowell and such?

[True47185]

@howlingsandy What kind of Fedora is he wearing ? He had so many different hats but the Fedora is seen

quite often i wonder what brand he wore .

[chefshier]

I'm really digging this video but look right over Mance's left shoulder at about 4:30. Is that.... Colonel Sanders? No really, I'm serious!

It actually distracted me.

[ELVIS4221]

Would love to hear, "I'm looking for my Jesus". Best song he ever did.

[dirklongest]

the crowed is fantastic... dwl

[jteshuwah]

wow, what a crowd! where did they FIND these people? lipscomb rocks the joint and these people look like they've just been told they'll be shot when they live the place. no accountin' for taste, but i wish mance coulda had a real audience to play to. shoot!

[sheilapatrick1]

they are hypnotized

[NormanMac]

@sheilapatrick1 Yes I thought they were intently into it. All the more interssting that it seems a white audience

[homedepot20car]

He was so so so fucking good!!!!

[friedpidgeon]

Mance plays for, what appears to be, a roomful of deranged Europeans who blow smoke in his face. I think the music is, however, soothing them.

[nico19611]

his warm sound is unique

[Thunderwoods12]

awesome time capsule, I love the audiance.. Daddy Mance.. Texas County Blues.. sweet!

[JandritoBlues]

On that second number there is some serious funk on this man's right thumb. So much ass.

[jmacbops]

I appreciate that the audience pays attention and listens rather than blabbing the whole time. The applause suggests they like him. But I don't understand why they look like they had just been told there was a mandatory body cavity search before they could leave. Is there a tax on smiling there? What a treat to see Mance in a setting like that.

[stage3performance]

Awesome performance! is it just me or do I sense a little racial tension in that room? That one guy looked like he was ready to snap!

[juniormcfadden]

Anyone got a recording of Mance Lipscombe playing 'Blues in G' ? It's a great guitar number.

[rastablues1]

@juniormcfadden Yeah.

[michaelfromaustin]

Saw him a half dozen times. Talked to him twice. He was a sweet, gentle person. My great uncle and grandpa went away to fight the Kaiser in the same local draft as Mance. Mance sings "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" on one of his albums.

[mojokiss]

@michaelfromaustin very cool!

[Mouldytone]

Brilliant performance. Shame about the soul-less looking audience. They look like they`re there to judge rather than to enjoy the music.

[jeeperforlife]

Hot damn. I cant even imagine what itd feel like to sit and watch Mance play

[TheElsadogge]

I am proud to be a fellow Texan!

[acidcasual07]

I wish someone would put so different blues up again.

[cooloutac]

the audience gives me nightmares. I think manson is in the front row.

[Drewsinger]

An absolute master..right in front of them and they look like they could be watching a congressional debate on school lunches!! Damn! I mean seriously! Col. Sanders there on the right even yawns and takes his glasses off! Maaaaan..so wish I could've been there.

[davidpauloller]

No shit! I thought they looked liked zombies. Sitting there listening to the best bottle neck guitar player in history. I did see him at Lincoln Park in OKC, Oklahoma

[Drewsinger]

Wow, I'm jealous! I'll bet it was incredible!

[thsensor]

@davidpauloller  Its called listening to the music..

[LeadHopkins]

What's frustrating about videos like this is seeing the empty chairs.

[svidrigajlov]

whats up with those guys at 1:02 ? ? ?

looks like they are dead

[FaustyFob]

i understand that people are trying to be polite when the just.. kinda sit there.. but thats not what the blues is about.. to me, being a blue musician, blues is much more powerful when the audience is envolved.. before i play i tell audience members 'you can calp if you like.. it IS the blues'... back in the day, in those old joints, people would talk back and scream and sing... thats how its supposed to be listened to..

[thsensor]

@FaustyFob Myself? as much as I love him and the way he can play, If I were there and someone made noise that I couldn`t hear EVERY bit of him.. I `am one pissed off motherfucker! however i do know what you mean, its just not like he plays all nights of the week.

[jeeperforlife]

Damnit...i keep hittin the wrong thumb...sry man im with you. I would not tolerate anyone disturbing me during Mances performance

[mojokiss]

@FaustyFob right, i am a blues front man, and i refuse to do 95% of my tunes until i get at least a foot tap from the drunk at the end of the bar. if everyone looks bored and sad with their backs turned to me i do a song like "since i fell for you" where i can scream and holler but no dancing or clapping is required, then hopefully warm them up to a foot tap.

[loonyranger]

The 'Texas Songster'. .......an absolute legend.

[clfhcks]

I would like to see Mance play in a smokey dance hall full of black folks who'd had a few drinks!

[81Lip]

Was this a guesr appearance on Mr. Ronger's???

[comrade86]

look at all of those white people!!! LOL fucking freaky!!!!!!!

[crownedjitter]

Holy crap, did you see that! That guy was smoking! Inside! Somebody call the police!

[knappydanny]

I noticed that too ! ahh, the good old days.

[CharmedQuarkZ99]

That guy in the green shirt looks dead...ha ha.....

[lampens]

@crownedjitter

Yeah, and it's making mance cough lol.

[samuelmichaud]

What a lively bunch in the crowd. Good times!

[6t4eldo]

they thought they were coming to see Hillbilly Harry & the Shitkickers, not a REAL bluesman.

[MrLeadbelly]

fuck me Mance is wearing my dads pyjamas!!! also the audience only applause when he has finshed!

[windster]

Completely agree Gonzotoo. This was the 60s after all.  Listening quietly was what you did and, if you go into any acoustic folk/blues club today, that's exactly what they're still doing. Nothing wrong with that..

[jeeperforlife]

Yea I wouldve just been sitting there trying to figure out how the hell he does that...as usual

[gonzotoo]

the audience is being polite and listening. what are they supposed to do? get up and swing from the rafters like a bunch of monkeys?

[d1x13]

The audience is fake! They are all wax models!

[NevadaPic]

Local sheriffs must have been standing outside of camera range with loaded shotguns. What a bizarre spectacle! I would have been jumpin' and shoutin'...

[crapdeikaris]

That audience now works for microsoft.

[TQ120]

This was recorded a tv concert in Texas in 1969, same state where they were, in those times, shaving the heads of visiting hippies who passed thro. I guess that the audience here were still in the " sit and appreciate quietly " mode of etiquette.

[11spike7]

The audience be hip-mo-tized!!!

[nationalguitarplayer]

Stupid people exist in all colors and races, that has nothing to do with skin color but with the color of the soul, about how deep you can feel things, apparently those people don't get it...some people will never get it whatever their color is...I guess Mance playing and the frozen audience is quite a good symbol of where blues came from and what it's all about..Once again Lipscomb was truelly a genius, thanks for posting the video!

[snicky58]

I have this video, and I can hardly stand to watch it because of the bizarre, Night of the Living Dead-looking audience. WTF was wrong with them? Wish I could have been in that audience.

[hokumjokemt]

white people...can't dig something even when it's right in front of them (like always)

[sergiolopezOU]

Wow. You can almost see the huge stick up these audience's ass!

[Nunsweepit421]

What a miserable shit looking audience!

[acidcasual07]

I know what a shame. Did you see Quentin Tarentino.

[Unpackthat]

They look like such a bunch of arseholes.

[stoelefj]

Ps I like the shirt! (And like all blues men, he cough in the middle of a song! =))

[stoelefj]

What a terrible audience. Obviously not exactly one like Mance Lipscomb was used to have.

[seedogreed]

Jesus, yes, terrible ! But then again, it's been long time ago, people change

[chirfu]

Hey at 4:27 Kernal Saunders is in the audience... Great songs.

[gabrielanderson]

Those people are hating the idea of a talented black artist on TV. I have the entire DVD and one of those cats falls asleep in the middle of the show. How respectful can you be. Idiots... Mance Lipscomb was a pure genius.

[Splitzerinn]

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[magicninjasboy]

as a long time fan of the blues i can put forward the opinion thst mance lipacomb and john hurt are in a master class of their own. beast master

[bluesbotshuffle]

hes got one hell of a lively audience, they sure know how to shake it down...

[kieselsteinchen]

yeah ;)

[lostintheblues]

Mance and John Hurt were the masters that sadly you don't hear of except from the die hard fans mostly...

But those of us that know these guys and this music know what all these morons are missing out on with their top 40 puke

[stick1b]

Think the hip couple at the start are more sinister

[revdolaf]

Can't find anyone with the same unique style anywhere else - Mr Lipscomb got that droning bass timed to perfection.....great stuff!

[etheangel2220]

Damn...check out that guy in the green shirt...looks like he wants to kill someone

[zanklwang09]

amazing guitar

[acidcasual07]

i never knew tarentino liked the blues lol 1:18

[lobizoon1]

Its worth to have this dvd. I have it and I cant stop seeing it!

[rockordie090]

my step dad was close friends with mance lipscomb

[kinghendrixx]

it's so good .I like the Lightnin' Hopkins version too.

[Ducktowners]

everyone was tripping & watching & loving it!

fantastic music!

[skw33zr]

What a weird audience! Nothing like the audiences at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles, Ca, back in the earlier 1970's. When Mance would play there, people were up out of their seats, dancing in the aisles. I once went backstage after a show to talk to Mance. He told me stories and his philosophy of life. I think he would have talked all night if I had stayed to listen. What a great national treasure this man was.

[josselec]

Clark Kent was there too apparently lol... and I agree they do look a bit strange, I wonder what it must have felt like for Mance to sit there and play for a crowd like this... on one of my albums you can hear him say something like "... white ho... ahmmmm... white people.." hahaha

[lampens]

I mean the way they gaze out of their eyes lol. They look, well, kinda weird lol.

[lampens]

Is it me or are the people in this audience looking a bit weird?

[Blackheath1]

people were individuals back then - unlike now when everyone wears the same shite t-shitrs / jeans / trainers / baseball cap

[Ducktowners]

true true...now-a-days its the nail that stands up, gets pounded down. Sad times...

:~(

[tottenhamjake]

My favourite Bluesman. That performance of Goin Down Slow is for me personally where the Blues peaks. It is just stellar.

Is that Colonel Sanders in the front row above the mic? ;)

[doggeds]

you can buy the dvd online from amazon or stefan grossman's guitar workshop , " mance lipscomb in concert". I love mance. shame there isn't more footage of him though

[josselec]

Great vid! I've been a Lipscomb fan for well over 20 years and it never stops to amaze me how good this man was! Where can I find this DVD? Thxs

Jossele

[peglegsam]

I own this DVD, it's a must-have for any serious fan of country blues music.