Name: Texas Sharecropper & Songster
Brand: Arhoolie
SKU: 446510
Price: 46.35 USD
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Texas Sharecropper & Songster

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Album: Texas Sharecropper & Songster
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sugar Babe
2)	Goin' Down Slow
3)	Freddie
4)	Jack O'Diamonds
5)	Baby Please Don't Go
6)	One Thin Dime
7)	Shake, Shake Mama
8)	Ella Speed
9)	Mama Don't Allow
10)	Ain't It Hard
11)	'Bout a Spoonful
12)	Take Me Back
13)	Rag in "G"
14)	Big Boss Man
15)	You Gonna Quit Me, Baby
16)	Blues in G
17)	Mama, Don't Dog Me
18)	Willie Poor Boy
19)	Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night
20)	Knocking Down Windows
21)	Nobody's Fault But Mine
22)	Motherless Children

Album: Texas Sharecropper & Songster
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sugar Babe
2)	Goin' Down Slow
3)	Freddie
4)	Jack O'Diamonds
5)	Baby Please Don't Go
6)	One Thin Dime
7)	Shake, Shake Mama
8)	Ella Speed
9)	Mama Don't Allow
10)	Ain't It Hard
11)	'Bout a Spoonful
12)	Take Me Back
13)	Rag in "G"
14)	Big Boss Man
15)	You Gonna Quit Me, Baby
16)	Blues in G
17)	Mama, Don't Dog Me
18)	Willie Poor Boy
19)	Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night
20)	Knocking Down Windows
21)	Nobody's Fault But Mine
22)	Motherless Children

Performer Notes

Solo performer: Mance Lipscomb (vocals, guitar).
Recorded in 1960 and 1964.
Personnel: Mance Lipscomb (vocals, guitar).
Recording information: Navasota, TX; The Cabale, Berkeley, CA.
Editor: Chris Strachwitz.
Photographer: Chris Strachwitz.
Unknown Contributor Role: Mance Lipscomb.
Arranger: Mance Lipscomb.
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