Mance Lipscomb Movies
The Lone Star State has a long and impressive history of spawning great blues acts, and four of the all-time greatest Texas guitar slingers are featured on this performance video. Texas Blues Guitar includes three numbers shot in 1991 from Albert Collins ("Ice Man," "Head Rag," and "Lights Are on but Nobody's Home"), three songs from a 1972 Freddie King gig ("Blues Band Shuffle," "Big Leg Woman," and "Going Down"), the great Lightin' Hopkins performing four songs in a 1960 television appearance ("Bunion Stew," "Let's Pull a Party," "Going Down Slow," and "Baby, Come Go Home With Me"), and Mance Lipscomb is represented with four songs filmed in 1968 ("God Moves on the Water," "Night Time Is the Right Time," "Which Way Do the Red River Run," and "Captain Captain"). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 2002
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In the blues, slide guitar is often called "bottleneck guitar" because many rural blues artists would crack the neck off of a bottle of beer or whiskey and use the glass as a slide on their guitar neck, sliding it across the strings for effect. Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar features a handful of crucial rural blues players demonstrating their mastery of the slide guitar. Performers include Johnny Shines, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Furry Lewis, Mance Lipscomb, and Jesse Fuller. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 2000
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Two of the greatest blues artists to emerge from the fertile Texas musical community are documented on this home video release. Masters of the Country Blues: Mance Liscomb and Lighting Hopkins features rare filmed performances by "Texas Songster" Liscomb, showing off his country-blues styled picking on such songs as "Can I Do Something For You" andf "Goin' Down Slow", as well as the more agressive and energetic stylings of the legendary Lightning Hopkins, whose set includes "Mojo Hand" and "Baby Scratch My Back". ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
One of the true giants of the country blues, Mance Lipscomb was a guitarist and singer who spent most of his life working as a tenant farmer in rural Texas and playing juke joints on weekends. It wasn't until the early 1960s that Lipscomb was discovered by blues researchers and recorded a number of acclaimed albums which finally earned him the international following he deserved. Mance Lipscomb In Concert is culled from a 1969 performance recorded in Texas for public television in Texas, and captures the bluesman performing a mixture of originals and covers in his inimitable style. Songs include "Night Time Is the Right Time," "Alcohol Blues," "Mama Don't Allow," "I Want to Do Something for You," "Key to the Highway," "Silver City," and many more. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 1994
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Legends of Traditional Fingerstyle Guitar captures performances by a handful of guitar pickers who specialize in a regionally specific style of playing that emerged from the rural areas of the American south. Included in this collection are performances by Merle Travis, Mance Lipscomb, Doc & Merle Watson, Rev. Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotton, Brownie McGhee, Roscoe Holcomb, Josh White, and Sam McGee. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- 1994
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Some of America's greatest acoustic blues players perform the songs that made them famous in this video, which collects performances filmed for television in the early '60s. Legends of Country Blues Guitar features rare appearances by Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Reverend Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, and others. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 1971
In the tradition of his past and future up-close celebrity documentaries, Les Blank served up 1981's Mance Lipscomb--A Well-Spent Life. The subject is Texas blues artist Mance Lipscomb, seen at work and in repose. A lifelong sharecropper and tenant farmer, Lipscomb was 65 when he made his first record. His versatility as a singer, composer, guitarist and violinist bordered on the uncanny, and his influence would continue to be felt even into the highly streamlined country-blues market of the 1990s. Director Blank makes excellent use of the materials at hand (there is comparatively little of Lipscomb on film), and the result is a rich, fully fleshed out life study of one of the Southwest's finest "songsters." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
