The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...paths with Duke Ellington, the Rolling Stones, T-Bone Walker, Mance Lipscomb, Billy Eckstine, Albert Collins, Count Basie, and countless..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Day Trips

Brilliant Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb gets due respect in Navasota

"...Mance Lipscomb had his own way of playing the Texas..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Audio Snapshots

America's premiere archival roots label celebrates the big 4-0.

"...was blues from Texas, from the softer approach of Mance Lipscomb to the devil-may-care wildness of his cousin Lightnin'..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Mike Quinn

Day Trips

Navasota is the home of the Blues Alley, and the Navasota Blues Fest and is the old stomping grounds of legendary songster Mance Lipscomb

"...Few Texas musicians melded the different genres better than Mance Lipscomb. Born into a musical family near Navasota in..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Twenty Flight Rock

Burton Wilson's photos of old-world Austin and An Album of Texas Songwriters

"...a sheared Frank Zappa abound. Another shot backstage posits Mance Lipscomb, Bill Neely, and Taj Mahal in a crossing..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Postscripts

Remembering Austin poet and musician Glen Alyn.

"...Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, which was written in dialect, phonetically,..."

June 16, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Literary Lone Stars Ten Best Texas Books

"...Say Me For a Parable: The Oral Biography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, Glen Alyn (1993). Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976),..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Spotlight: Scott H. Biram

Scott Biram stays one step ahead of the devil

"...discovered more obscure people like Lil' Son Jackson and Mance Lipscomb."..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Toast to an Artspace About Art

Pro-Jex's Tunnel of Art on Fifth Street Was More Than a Gallery, Much More

"...Pappé's Farrahs; one of Bill Records' perfect portraits of Mance Lipscomb, caught tight enough to smell the cigarette in..."

April 3, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

No Lonesome Tune

Retiring the dean of Texas songwriters? Fat chance.

"...to greatness, learning at the feet of folk/blues mavens Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins...."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor

Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll

"...here was Loudon Wainright, Jimmie Rodgers, Flatt & Scruggs, Mance Lipscomb, John Prine, Freddie King, Joan Baez, Delbert &..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

The One-Man Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Park Conspiracy

“Do you see it? Cuz if you don’t, then I’m crazy.”

"...Gatemouth Brown, Freddie King, Carolyn Wonderland, Charlie Sexton, and Mance Lipscomb – on the pieces of concrete...."

Dec. 23, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Folk Festival in 1972 expressly to hear Texas guitarist Mance Lipscomb...."

Sept. 7, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Art festivals and dance halls liven up the landscape in September

"...Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Townes Van Zandt, Mance Lipscomb, and many others of Texas music royalty. With..."

Sept. 1, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

Never before published list of all Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame inductees

"...Mance Lipscomb (84)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Houston Restaurant Weeks, Perseid Meteor Shower, and more

"...food. Funds raised by the festival go to the Mance Lipscomb Scholarship Fund for local aspiring musicians and students...."

Aug. 10, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Birthday Bash

Growly troubadour – still canny after all these years

"...an English teacher. And then I saw guys like Mance Lipscomb, an incredible musician, who between songs would also..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Counterculture Time Capsule

Forty years later, Les Blank's Leon Russell rock doc sees the light of day

"...of Lightnin' Hopkins, Flaco Jiménez, Lydia Mendoza, Dizzy Gillespie, Mance Lipscomb, New Orleans Mardi Gras tribes, and countless others..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Lars Nilsen

Playback: Meet the New Texas Music Czar

New Texas Music Office director, new Rock N Roll Rentals branch, and a new Foot Patrol fetish!

"...a stellar sixth album, KTOES, arriving locally with a performance at Hops & Grain (500 Calles) on Saturday at..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Chairman of the Board

Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue

"...the Vulcan started bringing in Big Joe Williams and Mance Lipscomb, I knew who they were. The Vulcan's booking..."

April 25, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Scott H. Biram

"...altercation "Only Whiskey" and an especially horny adaption of Mance Lipscomb's "Alcohol Blues," Scott H. Biram both rages and..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

We Were From Texas

Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt

"...blues and folk of artists like Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. Guy moved Susanna there from Oklahoma City after..."

July 19, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Shirley Ratisseau’s Last Blues

Pioneering Texan dies at 84

"...paths with Duke Ellington, the Rolling Stones, T-Bone Walker, Mance Lipscomb, Billy Eckstine, Albert Collins, Count Basie, and countless..."

April 16, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

From the Vaults: Blank Checks Out

Les Blank tells us the favorite all of his films

"...the Ry Cooder Group, Huey Lewis and the News, Mance Lipscomb, norteño border music, and the unique gumbo that..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carson McHone

And her homegrown curve-ball edge to songwriting

"...listening to a lot of blues lately too – Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin Hopkins, R.L. Burnside, Howlin’ Wolf. It just..."

Jan. 22, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"...listen to and meet vintage bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Roosevelt Sykes. The kid who..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Hot for Teacher

History's sexy at UT Informal Classes

"...do with it ... Blind Willie Johnson, Lightnin' [Hop­kins], Mance Lipscomb ... Texas can claim most of Leadbelly. The..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

We Need To Bring This Woman Home

"...statue. Holy moly. T-Bone Walker to Lightnin' Hopkins to Mance Lipscomb to Stevie Ray Vaughan and everyone in between?..."

Aug. 7, 2012 Postmarks

Dark Was the Night

Blind Willie Johnson gets his place in history

"...life form find it. Unlike contemporaries Robert Johnson and Mance Lipscomb, Johnson faded into history despite his influence and..."

June 2, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Sheik to Sheik

Crazy Heart wasn't Stephen Bruton's only last project, and we have Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks to thank for that

"..."Blind Willie Johnson, Lightnin' [Hopkins], Mance Lipscomb ... Texas can claim most of Leadbelly. The..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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