1 	Sugar Babe	2:06 	
2 	Goin' Down Slow	3:07 	
3 	Freddie		2:42 	
4 	Jack O'Diamonds	4:05 	
5 	Baby Please Don't Go	1:47 	
6 	One Thin Dime	2:59 	
7 	Shake, Shake Mama	2:53 	
8 	Ella Speed	2:36 	
9 	Mama Don't Allow	2:26 	
10 	Ain't It Hard	3:16 	
11 	'Bout a Spoonful	3:27 	
12 	Take Me Back	1:59 	
13 	Rag in "G"	2:02 	
14 	Big Boss Man	3:09 	
15 	You Gonna Quit Me, Baby	2:38 	
16 	Blues in G	4:11 	
17 	Mama, Don't Dog Me	3:23 	
18 	Willie Poor Boy		3:02 	
19 	Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night	2:48 	
20 	Knocking Down Windows	2:25 	
21 	Nobody's Fault But Mine	1:27 	
22 	Motherless Children	2:40 	

Mance Lipscomb – guitar, vocals

Arhoolie's Texas Sharecropper & Songster is a recording made in 1960, during the blues revival. Prior to the blues revival, Mance Lipscomb was an unknown, and his discovery was one of the positive byproducts of the revival. He was a great country-blues man, and this is perhaps his greatest effort, capturing him running through a number of traditional songs. Most of the songs are augmented by his jackknife slide guitar, and all feature his raw, haunted vocals, which make these classic songs sound timeless. ---Thom Owens, allmusic.com

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1. Captain, Captain (Take 2)
2. Careless Love (Take 2)		play
3. When Death Come Creeping In Your Room (Take 1)
4. Alabama Bound (Take 2)
5. Buck Dance (Instrumental)
6. Night Time Is The Right Time (Take 1)
7. Rocks And Gravel makes A Solid Road (Take 6)
8. Johnny Take A One On Me (Take 2)
9. Motherless Children (Take 2)
10. Which-A-Way Do Red River Run (Take 2)
11. Trouble In Mind (Take 1)
12. Ballad Of The Boll Weevil (Take 10)
13. Boogie In 'A' (Previously Unreleased)
14. Hattie Green (Previously Unreleased)
15. Bumble Bee Blues (Previously Unreleased)		play
16. Shine On Harvest Moon (Previously Unreleased)
17. Cocaine Done Kill My Baby (Previously Unreleased)
18. Hey Lawdy Mama (Previously Unreleased)
19. Is You Gonna Quit Me Baby (Previously Unreleased)
20. Frankie Was A Good Woman (Previously Unreleased)
21. You Gonna Look Like a Monkey (Previously Unreleased)
22. Black Gal (Previously Unreleased)
23. Casey Jones (Previously Unreleased)
24. After Hours (Instrumental) (Previously Unreleased)
25. Angel Child (Previously Unreleased)

Mance Lipscomb – guitar, vocals.

Like Leadbelly and Mississippi John Hurt, the designation as strictly a blues singer dwarfs the musical breadth of Mance Lipscomb. Born on April 9, 1895 in Navasota, TX, Lipscomb was a sharecropper/tenant farmer all his life who didn't record until 1960, "songster" fits what Lipscomb did best. A proud, yet unboastful man, Lipscomb would point out that he was an educated musician, his ability to play everything from classic blues, ballads, pop songs to spirituals in a multitude of styles and keys being his particular mark of originality. He appeared at numerous blues and folk festivals throughout the '60s, released several albums on Arhoolie and even one for a major label, Reprise, in 1970, Trouble in Mind. Four years later, Lipscomb retired from the festival circuit and passed away on January 30, 1976 in his hometown of Navasota, TX. He was 81. With a wide-ranging repertoire of over 90 songs, Lipscomb may have gotten a belated start in recording, but left a remarkable legacy to be enjoyed. ---Cub Koda, AllMusic Review

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[4:07] 1. Texas Blues
[3:50] 2. Black Gal
[4:24] 3. Oh, Baby! (You Don't Have To Go)
[4:17] 4. Whiskey Blues
[2:52] 5. Haunted House Blues               play
[4:38] 6. Mance's Blues
[4:36] 7. Does She Ever Think Of Me
[2:11] 8. I Just Hang Down My Head And I Cry
[2:32] 9. Rag In F
[3:04] 10. Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone
[6:00] 11. Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night
[2:46] 12. Corrine, Corrina                 play
[2:48] 13. Evil Blues
[2:16] 14. Mama, Let Me Lay It On You
[4:25] 15. Louise
[4:12] 16. Sometimes I Feel Like
[3:31] 17. Blues In The Bottle
[5:16] 18. Angel Child

Mance Lipscomb (vocals, guitar); 
Mike Birnbaum, Charlie Pritchard (guitar); 
Powell St. John (harmonica); 
Frank Lipscomb (bass); 
Wayne Davis (drums).

Recorded between 1970 & 1974.

In the 1960s when the folk revival began to recognize country blues as an important art form, Arhoolie was there to capture it all on tape. It perhaps seems odd in retrospect that a number of scholars and collectors feared that the older forms of the blues had vanished from the landscape during the 1950s. Arhoolie's recordings of Fred McDowell, Lightnin' Hopkins, and other players gave ample evidence that prewar blues were alive and doing quite well, thank you. Texas Country Blues collects a number of tracks recorded by Mance Lipscomb in the late '60s and early '70s. Lipscomb may be first and foremost a blues player, but unlike Hopkins or McDowell, he broadened his repertoire to include ragtime and folk. "Rag in F" is a fun little ditty that brings to mind the bouncy piano work of Scott Joplin, while "Corrine, Corrina" and "Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone" conjure up the ghost of Leadbelly. Whatever style he's working in, however, Lipscomb delivers each song with focus and feeling. There's the delightful "Mama, Let Me Lay It on You," and there are sharp, electric versions of "Blues in the Bottle" and "Angel Child." With it's generous running time and fine selections, Texas Country Blues will serve as a superior introduction to an eclectic blues artist. ---Ronnie D. Lankford Jr, allmusic.com

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1. Jack of Diamonds Is A Hard Card To Play - 2:13
Lee Mackey
2. Out And Down - 2:06
3. Jay Bird Blues - 2:37
Willie Manifee & Mance Lipscomb
4. If I Get Lucky, Mama - 3:37
Mance Lipscomb
5. Angel Child - 4:20
Mance Lipscomb & Teodar Jackson
6. Reconsider Baby - 3:58
Bill Neely
7. Matchbox Blues - 3:15
8. Graveyard Blues - 2:48
Nataniel 'Bill' Barnes
9. What's Wrong Baby - 5:16
Babe Stovall
10. Worried Blues - 6:13
11. Dirty Mistreater - 5:25
T.J. Jackson
12. Out And Down - 1:40         play
13. Corrina Corrina - 1:04      play
Oscar 'Preacher' Nelson & Newton 'Hoss' Nelson
14. Broke And Ain't Got A Dime - 2:35
Oscar & Newton Nelson
15. Alcohol Blues - 3:35
Jimmy Nelson
16. West Texas Blues - :46

A collection Texas blues, 16 songs cut during the mid-'60s, featuring Mance Lipscomb and a brace of lesser-known Texas bluesmen born between 1895 and 1907 and, thus, heirs and successors to the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson and other renowned Texas bluesmen of the '20s and '30s. Strangely, the notes refer to this collection as representing the 'heart's blood of [those] anonymous Texas bluesmen who labored by day and played by night,' but Lipscomb, at least, is far from anonymous today, mostly thanks to Arhoolie Records' recordings. What is sad is that the rest of the players here are genuinely obscure, but were clearly the equals of Lipscomb or any of his even more celebrated peers from Texas. Babe Stovall (whose nimble-fingered six-minute-plus 'Worried Blues' is a highlight of the album), Willie Menifee, Nathaniel 'Bill' Barnes, T.J. Jackson, et. al all deserved better.

The playing is mostly solo acoustic, although 'Corrina, Corrina' gets a solo electric treatment, as a sort of fragmentary instrumental. Other familiar songs given fresh renditions include 'Jay Bird Blues' and 'Jack O' Diamonds.' And just for the record, there's little 'ruff' here except the wonderfully spontaneous singing - the playing is as articulate and unself-consciously beautiful as any acoustic blues you'll ever hear.

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01. Mance Lipscomb - Corrine, Corrina (2:57) 
02. Mance Lipscomb - Captain, Captain (3:09) 
03. Mance Lipscomb - Alabama Jubilee (2:00) 
04. Mance Lipscomb - Evil Blues (3:07) 
05. Mance Lipscomb - Mr. Tom (2:07) 
06. Mance Lipscomb - Mother Had A Sick Child (3:06) 
07. Mance Lipscomb - Texas Blues (4:07) 
08. Mance Lipscomb - Long Way From Tipperari (2:21) 
09. Mance Lipscomb - Haunted House Blues (2:53) 
10. Mance Lipscomb - Wonder Where My Easy Rider Gone (3:03) 
11. Mance Lipscomb - A Rag (1:28) 
12. Mance Lipscomb - Louise (4:32) 
13. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't You Sorry (2:19) 
14. Mance Lipscomb - Joe Turner Killed A Man (3:06) 
15. Mance Lipscomb - Alabama Bound (1:59) 
16. Mance Lipscomb - Tom Moore's Farm (3:39) 
17. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Don't You Lay It On Me (2:22) 
18. Mance Lipscomb - Johnny Take A One On Me & Buck Dance (3:24) 
19. Mance Lipscomb - Farewell (3:47)

Vocals, Guitar – Mance Lipscomb

Like Leadbelly and Mississippi John Hurt, the designation as strictly a blues singer dwarfs the musical breadth of Mance Lipscomb. Born on April 9, 1895 in Navasota, TX, Lipscomb was a sharecropper/tenant farmer all his life who didn't record until 1960, "songster" fits what Lipscomb did best. A proud, yet unboastful man, Lipscomb would point out that he was an educated musician, his ability to play everything from classic blues, ballads, pop songs to spirituals in a multitude of styles and keys being his particular mark of originality. He appeared at numerous blues and folk festivals throughout the '60s, released several albums on Arhoolie and even one for a major label, Reprise, in 1970, Trouble in Mind. Four years later, Lipscomb retired from the festival circuit and passed away on January 30, 1976 in his hometown of Navasota, TX. He was 81. With a wide-ranging repertoire of over 90 songs, Lipscomb may have gotten a belated start in recording, but left a remarkable legacy to be enjoyed.

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