Born on this day – Mance Lipscomb:

Blues singer

Guitarist

April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976

Credits:

Albums:

Captain, Captain! (1996); Mama Don't Allow (1996); Navasota (2021); So Different Blues (1993); Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960); Texas Songster: Volume 2 (1964); Trouble in Mind (1969); Vol. 4 (1967); Vol. 5: Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs (1970); Volume 6 (1974).

Movies and television:

A Well-Spent Life (1971); Blues Under the Skin (1973); Singin' the Yodeling Blues (1983); The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970); The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996).

Book:

I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman (1993).