Captain, Captain!, by Mance Lipscomb

Captain, Captain!

by Mance Lipscomb

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1.	Captain, Captain! 03:09	buy track
2.	Ain't You Sorry 02:20	buy track
3.	Night Time Is The Right Time 04:00	buy track
4.	Mr. Tom's Rag (Guitar Solo) 02:07	buy track
5.	I Want To Do Something For You 02:34	buy track
6.	Long Tall Girl Got Stuck On Me 02:43	buy track
7.	Rag In "A" (Guitar Solo) 01:27	buy track
8.	Goin' Up North To See My Pony Run 04:00	buy track
9.	Santa Fe Blues 03:10	buy track
10.	Frankie And Albert 01:50	buy track
11.	Sentimental Piece In "G" (Guitar Solo) 03:04	buy track
12.	Farewell Blues 03:49	buy track
13.	Shorty George 02:41	buy track
14.	Angel Child 03:36	buy track
15.	Black Rat 02:14	buy track
16.	Tom Moore's Farm - Take 2 03:29	buy track
17.	Foggy Bottom Blues 03:12	buy track
18.	Heel And Toe Polka 01:42	buy track
19.	Going Back To Georgia 02:07	buy track
20.	Easy Rider Blues 03:09	buy track
21.	Why Did You Leave Me? 03:09	buy track
22.	Me And My Baby 02:40	buy track
23.	Mance's Talking Blues 02:05	buy track
24.	Segregation Done Past (Story - No Guitar) 03:49	buy track

about

Beau De Glen Lipscomb (1895–1976) changed his name to Mance (short for “emancipation”) to honor a friend of his older brother’s. A self-described “songster” and a tenant farmer, Lipscomb was discovered by Arhoolie Records owner and producer Chris Strachwitz in 1960. This collection includes 11 previously unreleased songs recorded at that initial 1960 session as well as a dozen songs from a 1966 session. Among them is “Tom Moore’s Farm,” a song that Lipscomb co-wrote about working on a cotton plantation in Texas. Lightnin’ Hopkins had previously recorded the song as “Tim Moore’s Farm” to avoid the possibility of retribution by Tom Moore. Strachwitz did not release the song until years after the deaths of both Moore and Lipscomb. The last track is a spoken reminiscence of living and working in a segregated society in Texas.

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released January 1, 1998

1998, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Arhoolie Records.

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