My great uncle the legendary incomparable Mance Lipscomb ❤️ This is one of my favs -I done had my fun if I don’t get well no more 🎶

Master Lipscomb is One of the Top Blues Men of His Generation

1260am Baton Rouge plays legendary music like this. I miss waking up to delta blues playing. Im 34

I had the great honor of meeting Mr. lipscomb, sat in a mutual friends parlor and had a private lesson, (actually there were about four of us.) He was a gentleman and shared his talent with us young punks, asking nothing in return. I imagine he touch a lot of people the same way, leaving them the better for the experience.

I heard and seen howlin wolf perform this song also…Love my culture and how it touches people of all ethnicity

If you want to really hear the nuance in Mance Lipscomb's playing and singing, change the playback speed to 25% or 50%. It sounds rather strange, but you'll hear all the very fine detailed nuances in the pitch of the "blue" notes in both the guitar and in Mance's singing: the incremental bending and slurring. It is truly amazing, and at normal speed, is not quite as noticeable as a technique, but creates the mood of the song, the interpretation, which, in turn, communicates the sentiment that the composer intended. These are the artistic subtleties that define these unique musician-artists, and one of the reasons we hold them in such high regard.

Mance Lipscomb was arguably the best of the Texas bluesmen and I say that even though I'm an avid Lightnin' Hopkins fan and I also love Lightnin's mentor Blind Lemon Jefferson.

I remember that time when Mance broke his ring finge and tr hey taped it to his little finger. It's called a buddy tape, or as Mance said, a 'buddy splint.' Though he was a four finger picker he was also a three finger picker, two finger picker, and thumb picker. It didn't phase him in the least, he just played it - phenomenally - in a different style. Those guys were a moment in time nobody will ever see again. I count myself blessedly lucky to have known so many of these guys alive.

Powerful, kind, beautiful face. I wish he was my father.

even with a broken finger, he plays better than most, including me !!! lol

Of all the bluesmen and women,such a great voice. I should mention he called himself a "songster", a term from the turn of the 20th century, never a bluesman.

I was 10 YO and found this station WLAC Nashville Tennessee. All they played after 9 p.m. was delta blues with some Chicago Blues thrown in. First music that ever really moved me. Always loved the sound of those different tunings. Then later the stones and everybody started copying The masters. Never quite got the real sound. Nothing like these real deal bluesmen. Hell I even got some Royal Crown Hair Dressing. LOL Didn't know it was for Blacks but loved the Music so much I just wanted to get all the feeling of the sound.

Lord, have mercy!

I love this ,just a masterpiece of blues.👍🎸❤️

I saw Mance at L.A.s Ashgrove in 1966 with a young Taj Mahal.

I first heard Mance play at a "hootenanny" in a tiny old school auditorium in Iola, Texas when I was in 8th grade--probably in 1963 or 64. He played a Telecaster that had been spray-painted yellow through some kind of old amp. He used a pocket knife as a slide. I saw him play many times after that in College Station and Bryan, TX. I got to know him sort of and went to visit him at his home a couple of times, which was a shotgun shack with an add-on in Navasota, TX on I think Blackburn Street, north and east of town.There was an old pickup truck out in front of his house pained yellow so people could find him.

Forgot about this guy-Broken fingers and all -He's up there w/ Lightnin..

What a wonderful singing voice he had!

He once told Janis Joplin that if he had her voice and his "fangers", he'd be all right. Wow.

Friend of mine ,harp player (Steve Rusin ) great one at that , turned me on to the blues,this yes iconic magnificent

If I am not mistaken, Mr Lipscomb is referenced quite a bit in the book, Texas Ranger by John Boessenecker. Apparently he had a close relationship with Frank Hamer (Bonnie and Clyde). They met in Navasota, Texas around 1909. "His damn hands don't fit no plow as long as I'm with him" snapped Hamer. I bet he could tell some stories.

Saw Mance at the bluebird cafe in santa barbara about 1974 or 5 ill never forget him he was quite elderly at the time and still had the stuff.

Okay… New fan. I must’ve been living under a rock or something. Love this guy 🎵❤️🎶

Injured hand and still plays like that. A proper blues man getting on with it regardless

Saw the Canned Heat and a country blues man at the Ash Grove but never saw Mr. Lipscomb. If I could only turn back the clock. Thank you for sharing. Great.

Love it. ✌️💜 RIP

Wow, never heard of this treasure.

A WELL SPENT LIFE brought me here.

first time i heard him was 14 years old ,every now and then a video of him comes by and takes me right back to those days

Great. Saw heard & met him at the Oberlin concert in the 1960s.

such vibe

Thank you Mick Lee for uploading because i did never heard of him.But now i did fall in love with this legend he was amazing good,

De lo mejor!!!!!, ma haces vivir blues

👍💯

BRILLIANT ❤

GREAT !

Howling wolf does it great too

Imagine how he played when not injured!

I saw Mance play at least twice at the Ash Grove in West Hollywood, in '64 or so. What I don't remember is his playing in an alternate tuning, but if my eyes and ears don't deceive me he's doing it here. First off, he's playing as if in A, but it's coming out in B---and the tape isn't sped-up or it would be noticeable in his voice. So the guitar is tuned up one whole step from normal. But check out his left hand: while he's using "A" for the tonic chords, his IV chord looks odd for a "D", and note his thumb wrapping around to second-fret the low string on the V or "E" chord. Those chord shapes look right, though, for drop-D playing. He has apparently lowered that 6th string, as in drop-D tuning. So the tuning from 1st to 6=th strings is F#, C#, A, E, B, E. Never woulda guessed that, but the close-up video doesn't lie. Thanks for posting it!

the real deal, fugg em all

Did you noticed the two bandaged fingers on his right hand? Did he have two broken fingers, or did he do that to stay focused on his middle and index fingers? Mance was an amazing guitarist and his voice had a great tone to it that matched so well with the blues.

What year is this from? Tnx.

Are those nylon strings on his guitar?

I have seen others tape their pinky and ring finger maybe so he mute the top strings without muting out the others if he had used palm muting instead.Then again some of those old blues songters still pulled corn and cotton at times when money was short.or may have been a little raw having to get practiced back up on his playing skills.Anyhow that did not interfere with his Texas hybrid piedmont style of picking.

Looks like he is playing a tenor guitar in this. Anyone know how he has it tuned? I know he is in the key of B but I can’t make sense of his chore shapes. Sounds fabulous!

AYUKEN👊 PARA TODO@S!!!

Harmony Sovereign, the poor man's guitar

epic

Sounds like you sped this up