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

He had the best shirts. We’d go shopping in little Texas towns for what we called Mance Lipscomb shirts.

Mance was one of the last, if not the last, true Texas Songsters from the old days. Big repertoire of songs, and amazing ability. Great to hear this wonderful performance.

I met a guitar player in Austin many years ago who played a Guild 12 string. He told me that when he was a teenager, he sought out Lipscomb and played for him on his front porch. The guy said he crammed every lick he had ever learned into a hurried blur, thinking it was all about playing fast. When he finished, Mance sat there for a minute, then said, "well.......that was a whole lotta notes!" The guy ( I wish I could remember his name) said he learned a valuable lesson that day - slow down and choose your notes ie. sometimes less is more.

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.

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

It is hard to find a video with 182 likes and 0 dislikes. This is proof that you are listening to something with substance.

That stiff audience! Bless his sweet heart and gifted soul.

Related to him. So happy to find out we are family. Probably a distant cousin. But still family

what talent! Such a small crowd. I once went into a bar late on a Sunday night called Jack & Jills Inferno in East Portland. Think it was 1972. There weren't even 10 people there. I looked at the singer. Couldn't believe it. Big Mama Thornton.

I had the privilege of attending a full concert by Mance at Oberlin.

I really love his vocal ability. one of the best I've ever heard, always bang on the right note. Always hits the sweet note.

Yes, vocal and guitar both, he’s got it, so nice to hear.

Mance played a set or two back in 1964 when I was a middle school teen at Iola, Tx. It was a talent show in a small Tx town school. I played in a Kingston Trio group with two friends. I was so blown away by Mance's fretworks!!

Wow he was great. I wish he was around now, we need that music back.

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..

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.

Texas Blues Man mr. Mance Lipscomb the best at Country Blues 👏👏👏👏👏

The Texas dead thumb style of play died when Mance passed on. No one plays like him and no one ever will again.

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

piedmont style. pure Texas blues man.

It was my pleasure to be introduced to Mance in his sharecropper’s shack where he lived in the backcountry of Texas. This was in 1973, and John Lomax Jr., with whom I worked, took me there, bringing along a gift for Mance. He complained that his songs were stolen by white performers without giving him credit or cash. This is true. His birthday today.

started listening to Mance when I was 19 (in 1986). It began when I bought Exile on Main Street when i was 17 & started working my way backwards to the blues. I moved to Dallas after college and immersed myself into Texas Blues. Good times! My favorite Mance song is "Tom Moore Blues". It's kind of autobiographical. Also, check out Jimmie Vaughan's "Little Son, Big Son". His playing has a heavy Mance influence. Both are on KZfaq and my channel.

Nice stuff. I just met the mother of this man's grandson. She says he likes to sing, too.

One of the very first Country Blues Guitarists I have heard - and sure one of the very best

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

It has been a while, but as I remember, Kenny was going to take Mance back home to Navasota from Bryan, and some of us gathered at Kenny's house before Mance was taken home. I sat on the floor in the livingroom. The guitar "sings" when someone like him plays it. You really notice a difference. It is alive. I think it was the Fall of 1973 or possibly early 1974. Ed

What a lively bunch in the crowd. Good times!

A friend of mine just went through the town mance was born in in Texas, and they have a statue to him ,I can imagine his fathers wry smile if he came back to life and saw it

I played drums for Mance Lipscomb in Oakland CA in 1968, or maybe early 1969, just us playing a lot of songs. In the audience (and on the bill, were Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, who I had also played drums for, earlier, and then later. Mance asked me to stay on stage to back him on drums. In the small club, the audience included those I've mentioned plus KC Douglas, who Brownie noticed, saying "Hey, There's K.C.!" then him up to do about eight songs. The guy who'd been putting on the Berkeley Folk Festival came up to ask me who K.C. was. When I told him, he said he was going to ask him to take part in the upcoming event (though I don't think KC played that, I'm not sure). Later, outside, Mance and I discussed the possibility of my moving to Navasota TX where he'd teach me guitar. He mentioned that it was so small a town "you can stand in the center and piss in any direction and have it land outside the city limits." ~sgs©

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

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)

Thanks GtrWorkShp! I haven't seen this before. Mance's guitar accompanies his expressive vocals perfectly.

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

I also love Mance... I had a similar experience. I presented a short play I wrote and directed to acclaim elsewhere to a class I took (for credit). It was 8:00 Am and we got the same response. God I wish I were there... I would have been yelling and clapping!

When they panned to the audience I thought I was watching a hostage tape. Great Blues though. 👍

Truly one of the Blues Masters

Among this man's claims to fame, when he was in his early teens he was the buggy driver of Frank "Poncho" Hames the legendary Texas Ranger that hunted down Bonney and Clyde...Frank loved his music and encouraged him to perform in public more often.

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

Amazing.!! The sound he gets out of that old Harmony is amazing!!!

his warm sound is unique

greatness

If you had a heart you loved Mr. Lipscomb. We can't always pick our audiences, good comments. Thank you very much.

One of the squares is smoking a cigarette in the middle of "Going Down Slow." (!!) If that isn't enough, Mance coughed!

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

sweet sweet blues. you should upload the full concert

I am proud to be a fellow Texan!

Closest style to Miss. John I've ever heard. Both these guys' styles are mysteriously completely different from other Mississippi or Texas singers'.

leur face sont épic!!!!!

Think they should have opened up the bar for free drinks to liven up this crowd of stuffed zombies - seen happier faces being dragged to the gallows

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

He was so so so fucking good!!!!

The audience is amazingly blank. I think they really felt the presence of the camera -- self-consciousness.

awesome

TV performance from 1969. Mance Lipscomb is 74 here. He would die five years later. The audience is a typical one for 'rediscovered' black blues artists at the time: all white, and excessively respectful - almost frightened to breathe.

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

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

The audience be hip-mo-tized!!!

One of the few songs Duane Allman sang

Mr. Lipscomb's cough at 3:14 shows his appreciation for that white boy's smoking. I bet that boy felt bad that he might've caused this musician (who was singing and playing for him) to cough!

Mance Lipscomb: Live from Madame Tussaud's

Geez liven up people! It would have been hard to play for an audience of stones.

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

If I was only have as good

if i sat there he would go free...

These 60's directors were stoned also. I mean could we see him play for Christ sake

looks like hes playin for the witnesses for his execution or something......Great though,

yeah ;)

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

👍

the crowed is fantastic... dwl

@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?

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

6 dislikes from 6 joe bonamassa, so called hardcore blues fans.

Those weird mannequins look like they are going to interview him for a janitor job.

1:17 'We don't take kindly to your types around here...'

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

1:17

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

only two songs?

up to the level of Big Bill to the least !

1:17 who let the serial killer in? And is that Mark Chapman sat behind him?

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

at 1:17 is the serial killer who killed all those audience members

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

Mance is every bit as good as Rev Gary Davis or Mississippi John Hurt but never quite achieved that 'legendary guitar picker' status. I don't know why that is.😉

Audience looks stoned

I swear that there are some arschlochs who live on the Death Star as it travels through the Black Holes in the Dark Web that just cruise YT to rage with thumbs down on anything that others like. I could just spit!

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.

3:10 Too much smoke in the room... makes you cough.

Tough crowd tonight...

Put out that goddam cigarette, man...

whats up with those guys at 1:02 ? ? ? looks like they are dead

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

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

the parole-board possibly..

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

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!

@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!

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