427 Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976) “One Thin Dime” 1960

“the first white man to discover Mance’s extraordinary character was, of all people, the legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer,” who made Mance his guide in Navasota and returned the favor by telling the young musician “many a story about his growing up days out in West Texas…Mance carried on the tradition of masterful storytelling as well as developing his mastery of blues guitar” (Glen Alyn, Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore, 1996). The Texas Sharecropper and Songster album is listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Mance Lipscomb “One Thin Dime”