Sold Date: March 28, 2017
Start Date: January 23, 2014
Final Price: $89.99 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 6436
Buyer Feedback: 21

This item is not for sale. Gripsweat is an archive of past sales and auctions, none of the items are available for purchase.

Mance Lipscomb
Trouble In Mind
On Reprise Records R 2012

Condition: Cover is VG+. Record is VG+
Zoom images for details

Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an , and . Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near , , he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ("Mance" being short for ).

Trouble in Mind was recorded in 1961 and released . In May 1963, Lipscomb appeared at the first Monterey Folk Festival in .

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his , I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was , and also a short 1971 by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.

He began playing guitar early on and played regularly for years at local gatherings, mostly what he called "Saturday Night Suppers" hosted by someone in the area. These gatherings were hosted regularly for a while by himself and his wife. The majority of his musical activity took place within what he called his "precinct", meaning the local area around Navasota, until around 1960.

Following his "discovery" by McCormick and Strachwitz, Lipscomb became an important figure in the folk music revival of the 1960s. He was a regular performer at folk festivals and folk-blues clubs around the United States, notably the Ash Grove in Los Angeles, CA.