Legendary bluesman Mance Lipscomb made several appearances, blowing the minds of all in attendance. “I started falling in love with the camaraderie there,” Stevenson told the Dallas Morning ...

When Parr sings and plays his resonator or 12-string, you can hear influences like Mance Lipscomb, Charley Patton, Spider John Koerner, Rev. Gary Davis, and Dock Boggs.

B.B. King and Buddy Guy appear in the 1973 blues documentary 'The Blues Under the Skin.' Watch the trailer before it returns to theaters.

He’d get bluegrass giant Bill Monroe to jam with blues singer Mance Lipscomb. Pankake earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in American studies at the U.

“If I had been blind, I’d have thought I was in some little Mississippi beer joint in 1940,” said Strachwitz, who reignited the careers of country blues masters like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin’ ...

He not only brought to light important American blues musicians such as Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb and zydeco king Clifton Chenier, but he also single-handedly ...

Smithsonian’s Folkways label and American History Museum are releasing Robert “Mack” McCormick’s tapes, research and writings as part of Folkways’ 75th anniversary.

In fact, the highlights of the newly released Playing for the Man at the Door are the 14 songs by Hopkins and Lipscomb. Especially impressive are the selections from a 1962 Hopkins show at Houston ...

(pictured right, Mance Lipscomb with family. Photo by Mack McCormick. Robert “Mack” McCormick Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution) In an essay titled Thoughts on ...