Mance Lipscomb ~ Goin' Down Slow
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2015
- I've been listening to, studying, and playing the Blues since I was twelve years old, but there's always more to discover. This was one of the first Blues songs I ever heard, and it blue me away, but I'd never heard of Mance Lipscomb until a couple of days ago. Phenomenal !
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My great uncle the legendary incomparable Mance Lipscomb ❤️ This is one of my favs -I done had my fun if I don’t get well no more 🎶
Went to his grave in 2018 to pay my respects. Very hard to find location. I got lucky when a lady pulled up, asked me who I was looking for. She called a friend who works for the town of Navasota and directed me to the site. I don't know who she was but am eternally grateful for her help. I also drove out to the farm where he worked and of course stopped by the park in town.
i am learning this song please tell us more about him , i learnt the entire part 1
I love ur Uncle Mance! Just listening to him n thought OWE to Reach to family! My husband, George Bowman made both his dentures with gold guitar in them He would say on stage" I was born with a guitar in my mouth" How cool ..I have alot of stories if interested text me back
I donated book to Austin TX "Say me for a parable" only 2 handmade copies Don't think can take out Thick big book in his words. I wanted to share it with world,so didn't get trashed when I die. Mance died on my bday Jan 30 1076 missed meeting him,since I moved in with Dr George He loved Mance Had all his LPs signed..we were Blues people from Texas He was better than Lightening,I thought and didn't get credit till 65yrs old Sad but he got it( not enough) love to text or talk Karen Bowman
@@karenbowman7532 wow I read about it in the book!! U guys are legendz, i am stuck with some stupid things right now kinda like big boss man hahaha so I don't get time to play,
also
if anyone got any lessons please share I d be very grateful
1260am Baton Rouge plays legendary music like this. I miss waking up to delta blues playing. Im 34
I had the great honor of meeting Mr. lipscomb, sat in a mutual friends parlor and had a private lesson, (actually there were about four of us.) He was a gentleman and shared his talent with us young punks, asking nothing in return. I imagine he touch a lot of people the same way, leaving them the better for the experience.
Master Lipscomb is One of the Top Blues Men of His Generation
Powerful, kind, beautiful face. I wish he was my father.
I remember that time when Mance broke his ring finge and tr hey taped it to his little finger. It's called a buddy tape, or as Mance said, a 'buddy splint.' Though he was a four finger picker he was also a three finger picker, two finger picker, and thumb picker. It didn't phase him in the least, he just played it - phenomenally - in a different style. Those guys were a moment in time nobody will ever see again. I count myself blessedly lucky to have known so many of these guys alive.
Mance Lipscomb was arguably the best of the Texas bluesmen and I say that even though I'm an avid Lightnin' Hopkins fan and I also love Lightnin's mentor Blind Lemon Jefferson.
I was 10 YO and found this station WLAC Nashville Tennessee. All they played after 9 p.m. was delta blues with some Chicago Blues thrown in. First music that ever really moved me. Always loved the sound of those different tunings. Then later the stones and everybody started copying The masters. Never quite got the real sound. Nothing like these real deal bluesmen. Hell I even got some Royal Crown Hair Dressing. LOL Didn't know it was for Blacks but loved the Music so much I just wanted to get all the feeling of the sound.
Me too! Re-a-zol Cre-a-zol ... I was about the same age as you, a little white girl in a little farming community, with my ear up against the radio so momma & daddy wouldn't know I was up on a school night. The Honeydripper.. Howlin Wolf..I learned to hula hoop wirh Big Joe Turner's Boogie Woogie Country Girl.
@@patemmert2672 My dad threw my guitar away because all I played was Jimmy Reed and he couldn't stand that type of music. 9 years old. That's why I started surfing. No body could be out there telling me to do anything. Now I play what I want as loud as I want. Glad you had the same type story. Lastly my dad would come into my room after I went to school and change the station. When I figured out what was happening I got my model car glue and glued the tuner to the station. Royal Crown hair dressing was what they advertised. I didn't know it was for Blacks I used it on my hair. To funny
I heard and seen howlin wolf perform this song also…Love my culture and how it touches people of all ethnicity
Ive heard many artist sing this song from the almond brothers to Muddy Waters . I never new who did it originally . I been stuck on Blues since I was born.
Friend of mine ,harp player (Steve Rusin ) great one at that , turned me on to the blues,this yes iconic magnificent
Of all the bluesmen and women,such a great voice. I should mention he called himself a "songster", a term from the turn of the 20th century, never a bluesman.
I love this ,just a masterpiece of blues.👍🎸❤️
If you want to really hear the nuance in Mance Lipscomb's playing and singing, change the playback speed to 25% or 50%. It sounds rather strange, but you'll hear all the very fine detailed nuances in the pitch of the "blue" notes in both the guitar and in Mance's singing: the incremental bending and slurring. It is truly amazing, and at normal speed, is not quite as noticeable as a technique, but creates the mood of the song, the interpretation, which, in turn, communicates the sentiment that the composer intended. These are the artistic subtleties that define these unique musician-artists, and one of the reasons we hold them in such high regard.
Well said!!! There’s a lot going on in his playing style. Very impressive indeed.🙏🏻❤️
Lord, have mercy!
Saw the Canned Heat and a country blues man at the Ash Grove but never saw Mr. Lipscomb. If I could only turn back the clock. Thank you for sharing. Great.
Saw Mance at the bluebird cafe in santa barbara about 1974 or 5 ill never forget him he was quite elderly at the time and still had the stuff.
If I am not mistaken, Mr Lipscomb is referenced quite a bit in the book, Texas Ranger by John Boessenecker. Apparently he had a close relationship with Frank Hamer (Bonnie and Clyde). They met in Navasota, Texas around 1909. "His damn hands don't fit no plow as long as I'm with him" snapped Hamer. I bet he could tell some stories.
Injured hand and still plays like that. A proper blues man getting on with it regardless
A WELL SPENT LIFE brought me here.
Did you enjoy the documentary?
@@shelainelipscomb6564 I loved the documentary! Gonna watch again soon!
Love it. ✌️💜 RIP
Okay… New fan. I must’ve been living under a rock or something. Love this guy 🎵❤️🎶
check out mance lipscombe's entire live set here on blues&folk 1960's channel: ruclips.net/video/PmPgKsklczM/видео.html&pp=ygUUbWFuY2UgbGlwc2NvbWJlIGxpdmU%3D
first time i heard him was 14 years old ,every now and then a video of him comes by and takes me right back to those days
Wow, never heard of this treasure.
I saw Mance at L.A.s Ashgrove in 1966 with a young Taj Mahal.
Wow respect. I saw BB when I was a late teen in Croydon, Fairfield Halls, UK.
Thank you Mick Lee for uploading because i did never heard of him.But now i did fall in love with this legend he was amazing good,
What a wonderful singing voice he had!
He kinda looks like an 'older' Snoop Dog
I first heard Mance play at a "hootenanny" in a tiny old school auditorium in Iola, Texas when I was in 8th grade--probably in 1963 or 64. He played a Telecaster that had been spray-painted yellow through some kind of old amp. He used a pocket knife as a slide. I saw him play many times after that in College Station and Bryan, TX. I got to know him sort of and went to visit him at his home a couple of times, which was a shotgun shack with an add-on in Navasota, TX on I think Blackburn Street, north and east of town.There was an old pickup truck out in front of his house pained yellow so people could find him.
Jim Boone isn't there a museum in his honor in Navasota?
I can't find Blackburn street on the Map. I'd love to visit the area. Bluesmen and women are a National treasure, and that generation is all but gone. Thanks for the story!
If you're serious then you are a lucky man indeed.
you were very fortunate to see one of my all time favorites do his thing.
The street he resided on was called Piedmont Road. There’s not a museum in place at this time but there’s a statue at a small park named in his honor. Thanks for sharing fond memories of my great uncle.
even with a broken finger, he plays better than most, including me !!! lol
I wonder how he broke his finger. God bless him.
Forgot about this guy-Broken fingers and all -He's up there w/ Lightnin..
Yeah, he was all time great.
Lil son Jackson???
👍💯
Great. Saw heard & met him at the Oberlin concert in the 1960s.
He once told Janis Joplin that if he had her voice and his "fangers", he'd be all right. Wow.
De lo mejor!!!!!, ma haces vivir blues
such vibe
BRILLIANT ❤
Imagine how he played when not injured!
GREAT !
Howling wolf does it great too
I saw Mance play at least twice at the Ash Grove in West Hollywood, in '64 or so. What I don't remember is his playing in an alternate tuning, but if my eyes and ears don't deceive me he's doing it here. First off, he's playing as if in A, but it's coming out in B---and the tape isn't sped-up or it would be noticeable in his voice. So the guitar is tuned up one whole step from normal.
But check out his left hand: while he's using "A" for the tonic chords, his IV chord looks odd for a "D", and note his thumb wrapping around to second-fret the low string on the V or "E" chord. Those chord shapes look right, though, for drop-D playing. He has apparently lowered that 6th string, as in drop-D tuning. So the tuning from 1st to 6=th strings is F#, C#, A, E, B, E. Never woulda guessed that, but the close-up video doesn't lie. Thanks for posting it!
He's tuning it up at the beginning of Jack Of Spades vid here on YT from the same session EDIT or now that I've watched it through perhaps retuning for the slide
the real deal, fugg em all
Are those nylon strings on his guitar?
What year is this from? Tnx.
Did you noticed the two bandaged fingers on his right hand? Did he have two broken fingers, or did he do that to stay focused on his middle and index fingers? Mance was an amazing guitarist and his voice had a great tone to it that matched so well with the blues.
He'd injured his finger.
Looks like he is playing a tenor guitar in this. Anyone know how he has it tuned? I know he is in the key of B but I can’t make sense of his chore shapes. Sounds fabulous!
Richard Busson He’s in Dropped D tuning. Playing out of A position. Pitch is tuned up
He's playing harmony sovereign
Mike D J is correct, and I just posted the same thing in more words, above. I'm just adding that a tenor guitar has 4 strings.
I have seen others tape their pinky and ring finger maybe so he mute the top strings without muting out the others if he had used palm muting instead.Then again some of those old blues songters still pulled corn and cotton at times when money was short.or may have been a little raw having to get practiced back up on his playing skills.Anyhow that did not interfere with his Texas hybrid piedmont style of picking.
AYUKEN👊 PARA TODO@S!!!
Harmony Sovereign, the poor man's guitar
And many of the players could and did sit down -- one guitar, one man -- and blow away anybody who has made the mistake of thinking it takes a spotless expensive Martin or Taylor make them a better player. It doesn't happen.
Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Syd Barret and Keith Richards amongst others also played Harmony Sovereigns in the 60s. They were solid guitars with solid sitka spruce tops, Honduran mahogany back and sides (actually a one piece back), Brazilian rosewood fretboard and bridge, with 2 sided binding on the body and neck. Good luck finding a guitar of this caliber today for under 2K. I wish my 2K Martin was built with the woods of my H1260, but I wish my H1260 was built by martin. But a key factor for the Sovereign blues sound is the ladder bracing. It has everything to do with the punchy sound of the blues. Personally I'll take Mance and Broonzy playing a Sovereign over Clapton playing a Martin any day.
There's that saying that a good musician never complains of his instrument.
epic
Sounds like you sped this up