Mance Lipscomb - 1999 - Texas Songster Vol 4 Live! At The Cabal torrent

Mance Lipscomb - 1999 - Texas Songster Vol. 4 Live! At The Cabale

All but three of the 21 tracks on Texas Songster, Vol. 4: Live! At the Cabale were previously unreleased; all but two of them recorded live at the Cabale in Berkeley in 1964 (the other two were done live in Sacramento in 1972). Mance Lipscomb made many albums, and it was a wise decision on compiler Chris Strachwitz's part to focus on songs that were not available on previous CDs by the singer. Repertoire aside, this is very much of a piece with the "songster" style Lipscomb projects on other recordings: good-natured acoustic tunes that draw from boogie, ragtime, and folk, with a warm vocal delivery and accomplished guitar picking. Some of the songs, in fact, will be pretty familiar to most blues fans, if not always duplicated by Lipscomb on other CDs: "Meet Me in the Bottom," "Trouble in Mind," "Key to the Highway," "Rock Me Mama," and "Baby Don't You Lay It on Me" (which sounds close to the folk standard "Baby Let Me Follow You Down"). One of the tracks, incidentally, is largely a 12-minute spoken story, "Early Days Back Home." (AllMusic)

Track list:
01 - Baby, Don't You Lay It on Me
02 - Meet Me in the Bottom
03 - You Gonna Miss Me
04 - Keep on Truckin'
05 - Trobule in Mind
06 - Tom Moore Blues
07 - Mance's Short-haired Woman
08 - Tra-La-Ra-La Doodle All Day
09 - Shine on Harvest Moon
10 - Run, Sinner, Run
11 - Key to the Highway
12 - Rock Me, Mama
13 - Wonder Where My Easy Rider Done Gone
14 - Late Night Blues & Boogie Woogie
15 - Early Days Back Home
16 - Cocaine Done Killed My Baby
17 - I Wonder Why
18 - It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
19 - You Gonna Quit Me, Baby
20 - When the Saints Go Marching In
21 - Mother Had a Sick Child

Tracks 1-19 recorded at The Cabale, Berkeley, California, 1964. Tracks 20 & 21 recorded in Sacramento, California, 1972.
All performances previously unreleased, except track 8 & 9 which were issued on Arhoolie LP #1026 and track 10 on Arhoolie LP #1033.

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