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I Say Me For A Parable: The Oral Autobiography Of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman
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508 pages
Published
April 1st 1995
by Da Capo Press
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Mance Lipscomb was an East Texas black man who thought of himself as a farmer (he was surprised, on being discovered by the white blues enthusiasts in the sixties, to be informed he was a "sharecropper") and musician. He was singular among bluesmen--he stayed at home in East Texas (except when he decided to work--not play, but work--in Houston), and he remained faithful to his wife. He was content to play what he called "Saturday night suppers", despite dodging the occasional bullet. And he had
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