Lipscomb, Mance
(1895–1976)> GUITARIST · SINGER
Lipscomb, Mance Bowdie Glenn Lipscomb, 9 April 1895; Navasota, TX – 30 January 1976; Navasota, TX Guitarist and singer. The rural musical storyteller, who did not travel outside Texas until he was in his sixties, was a throwback to nineteenth-century entertainment sensibilities. Lipscomb, who never viewed himself as a bluesman, was the last of the line of genuine Texas “songsters”; entertainers, often itinerant, who, much in the manner of West African griots, served as cultural depositories for…