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Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin Hopkins -Masters of Country Blues
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Biography: Lightnin Hopkins
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| Sam Lightnin Hopkins was a country blues guitar legend, from Houston, Texas. Born in Centerville, Texas, he learned the blues in Buffalo, Texas from Blind Lemon Jefferson & his older cousin, country-blues singer Alger Texas Alexander, with whom he was discovered by Lola Anne Cullum of Los Angeles Aladdin Records. He was an influence on Jimmie Vaughn s work.
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Biography: Mance Lipscomb
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Mance Lipscomb was an influential blues singer & guitarist. Born Beau D Glen Lipscomb in Navasota, Texas, Beau took the name Mance short for Emancipation. Lipscomb was the son of an Alabama slave. Lipscomb spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in Texas & was discovered & recorded in 1960 during the revival of country blues. He released six albums of blues & folk music, singing & accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. He had a fine finger-picking guitar technique & an expressive voice well suited to his material. Unlike many of his contemporaries like Blind Blake & Blind Willie McTell his life is well documented & he appeared in several films including A Well Spent Life ISBN 0-933621-09-4. Despite his fame in the 1960s & early 1970s he died poor in his hometown of Navasota, Texas in 1976, two years after a severe stroke.
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