MANCE LIPSCOMB Texas Sharecropper Songster LP 1 of 250 orig. Arhoolie 1001 blues
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Description
This was the first album issued by Arhoolie Records. 1960 hand-glued cover, one of only 250 made that way. The label color and design would evolve after this initial release.
From the Arhoolie Records site:
On November 3, 1960, the first Arhoolie LP (stands for Long Play, 33 1/3 rpm record, for you young folks!) arrived from the pressing plant: 250 copies of Mance Lipscomb’s “Texas Sharecropper and Songster.” Wayne Pope, his wife Alice and I sat around his kitchen table gluing printed cover slicks onto black jackets which I had ordered from an album plant. We stuffed the discs into the jackets and inserted a booklet which included Mack McCormick’s interesting and informative notes and the texts of the songs. After a lot of hard work we finally had 250 “homemade” copies for sale!
I had recorded Mance Lipscomb, the remarkable songster and guitarist from Navasota, Texas, during my first extensive trip to Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana in the summer of 1960. Mack McCormick, who had introduced me to my idol, Lightning Hopkins (via Sam Charters) in Houston the previous summer, was a very informed and generous host and also came up with the name ARHOOLIE for my new record label. I decided to start a record company, primarily to capture Lightning Hopkins at his inventive best: live, at the beer joints where I heard him the previous summer. Unfortunately, although I later did record Lightning on several occasions, I never had the capital nor recording equipment to make the “live” album a reality, and Lightning soon became a well-known performer appearing in concert halls a long way from the personal, intense improviser I had heard at the neighborhood beer joints in 1959!
Record is has a few light marks but plays near-mint. It includes the original description/lyric booklet insert.
Cover is VG++ with some general shelf wear and a bit of ring wear on the back.
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