18 pp. booklet notes (March 1960) by Mack McCormick with additions and corrections by Paul Oliver 77 LA 12/3 (UK 1960)
77 Records discographyLightnin' Hopkins discography
14-pp. booklet by Mack McCormick first issued with white cover without any printing, label name 'ufsom' being the master name printed on the label
= Raglan R 51 (US 1960?)
= Arhoolie LP 4006 (US 197?) [according to 1976 Arhoolie catalog]
notes & lyrics booklet by Mack McCormick Arhoolie F 1001 (US 11/1960) (1st pressing, no photos on back cover, 250 copies) Chris Strachwitz and Wayne Pope pasting the covers of the first Arhoolie Records' release "Texas Songster," 1960. Photo by Alice Pope
notes & lyrics booklet by Mack McCormick Arhoolie F 1001 (US 196?) (repressings, no photos on back cover)
notes & lyrics booklet by Mack McCormick Arhoolie F 1001 (US 1963) (later pressing, photos on back cover)
= Trio PA-3062 (Jp 197?)
(=) Arhoolie / City Hall Records F 1001 (US 2012) (reissue without notes and lyrics; includes download card)
= P-Vine PCD-93735 (Jp 7/2013)
Arhoolie Records discographyTrio Records discography
I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960 Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence: - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.] - I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.] - Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased] @ Spotify - Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased] @ Spotify - Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased] @ Spotify - The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.] - Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.] - Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.] - Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.] - Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.] - Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd. ed.]
notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif." Arhoolie FS101 (US 1961)notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif." = Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California" = Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709" (=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980) 1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!notes by Chris Strachwitz partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"Arhoolie Records discography
notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif." = Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)
notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California" = Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)
notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709" (=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980) 1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!
notes by Chris Strachwitz partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"
Arhoolie Records discography
notes by Mack McCormick Reprise R-2012 (mono) (US 1961)
notes by Mack McCormick = Reprise R9-2012 ([exaggerated] stereo) (US 1961)
= Vogue Reprise RV2006 (Fr 1961)
notes by Mack McCormick = Reprise RS 6404 (US 1970) ([exaggerated] stereo)
notes by Mack McCormick = Reprise RS 6404 promo (US 1970) ([exaggerated] stereo)
= Collector's Issue C-5521 (Austria 198?) "Captain, Captain And Other Songs"
Numbered limited edition of 2500 copies20-pp. booklet with original notes by Mack McCormick plus new notes by Bill Dahl = Rhino CD RHM2 7829 (US 2000)
Collector's Issue discography
notes (1964) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie F 1017 (US 1968)
notes (1964) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie F 1023 (US 1964)
= Fontana 688 805 ZL (UK 1967) "Texas Songster"
Arhoolie Records discographyFontana Records discography
CD tracks: - So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red - A Little Different - Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas - The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson - My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir - When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann - Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins - Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb # - A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray - West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade - Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore - Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers - Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir - A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson [] - Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown [] - They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer [] - Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens - Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith - Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love - Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith - Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann - What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend - 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage - Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery - They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb # - To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens - Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens [] All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960 # rec. August 13, 1960 in Navasota, TX
LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!
notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver  Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.) Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)
notes by Paul Oliver = Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)
LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965) xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965) xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)
Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)
Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR) translated by Yasufumi Higurashi
notes by Paul Oliver Arhoolie F 1026 (US 1965)
# Arhoolie CD 306 (US)
Arhoolie F 1030 (US 1966)
= Arhoolie CD 484 (US 2000)
Arhoolie Records discographyLightnin' Hopkins discography
notes (1967) by Pete Welding Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA // Arhoolie Records - P.O. Box 9195 - Berkeley, Calif. 94719 Arhoolie F 1033 (US 1967 / 1970s)
notes (1967) by Pete Welding Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA // Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709 = Arhoolie F 1033 (US 197?)
note by Paul Oliver Blues Classics BC-16 (US 1968?)
Blues Classics discography
2-disc packagenotes by Pete Welding Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968)
= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)
gatefold DLP Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969)= RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969)
= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp)
= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978)
gatefold DLP = Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989)
2 CD setnotes by Bill Dahl = Tomato CD TOM-3001 (US 2002)
Arhoolie 1049 (US 1969)
= Arhoolie AR 19007 (EU 1969)
notes by Rod Kennedy P S G NO. 20 (US 1972)
10 CD set, limited to 500 copiesnotes by Rod Kennedy(=) Silverwolf / Kerrville CD 1009 (US 1997)
# Silverwolf SWKCD 1016 (US 1999)
Robert Shaw discography
Vanguard VCD 25/26: Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44) John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05) Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40) Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33) Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15) Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35) Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04) Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38) Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15) Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36) Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55) Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06) James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23) Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45) Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10) J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52) Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05) Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43) Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22)
gatefold DLPnotes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972)
gatefold DLPnotes Leroy J. Pierson = Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972)
DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leafletnotes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986)
notes Leroy J. Pierson (=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988)
lots of further editions at www.discogs.com
Newport Folk Festival discographyMississippi John Hurt discographyReverend Gary Davis discographyReverend Robert Wilkins discographySkip James discographySleepy John Estes discographyYank Rachell discographyHammie Nixon discographyRobert Pete Williams discographyJesse Fuller discographyJohn P. Hammond discographyDave Van Ronk discography
notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie 1069 (US 1974)
°° note on CD 77/78: "due to compact disc time restrictions some songs on the original album are not included in this package"
gatefold DLPnotes by Maynard Solomon Vanguard VSD-77/78 (US 1976)
gatefold DLPnotes by Maynard Solomon = Vanguard VSD-77/78 (Fr 1976)
= King/Vanguard LAX-155 (Jp 1976)
notes (December 1988) by Samuel Charters (=) Vanguard CD 77/78 (US 1989) (2 LPs on 1 CD) °° "Great Bluesmen At Newport 1959-1965"
notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA Arhoolie 1077 (US 1978)
notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie Catalog, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, Ca. 99530, USA = Arhoolie 1077 (US 1980s)
notes (1960) by Mack McCormick and (1989) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 306 (US 1989)
notes (1960) by Mack McCormick and (1989 & 2000) by Chris Strachwitz = Arhoolie CD 306 (US 2000)
Limited to 500 copies(=) Wax Love LP WLV82104 (EU 2018)
notes by Bo Svensson Collectables CD COL-5289 (US 1993)
notes (1993) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 398 (US 1993)
notes (1993) by Chris Strachwitz = Arhoolie CD 398 (US 2005)
2 CD setnotes (May 1993) by Mary Katherine Aldin Vanguard VCD2-77005 (US/Germany 1993)
(=) Vanguard VCD 73133-2 (US 1997) "part one"
(=) Vanguard VCD 73134-2 (US 1997) "part two"
Arhoolie CD 001 (US 1994)
Mel Bay "Mance Lipscomb: Texas Blues Guitar Solos" instruction book
Vanguard CD 77007-2 (US 1995)
notes by Bo Svensson Magnum MACD 073 (US 1996)
Arhoolie CD 101 (US 1996)
Catfish CD CTF 100?
Catfish Records (US) discography
notes by Tary Owens & Julie Howell Catfish CD CTF 1003 (US 1993)
10 CD setnotes by Rod Kennedy Silverwolf/Kerrville SWC 1009 (US 1997)
notes (1965) by Paul Oliver & (July 1999) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 482 (US 1998)
notes by Pete Welding and Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 465 (US 1999)
# Silverwolf CD SWC 1009
Silverwolf SWKCD 1016 (US 1999)
notes by Tary Owens Catfish CTF-1004 (US 1999)
Arhoolie CD 484 (US 2000)
notes by Amanda SulakAim CD 1306 (Australia 2000)
5 CD box66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)
3 CD setnotes by John Milward Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2 (US 2001)
Arhoolie CD 9026 (US 2002)
20-pp. booklet with original notes by Mack McCormick plus new notes by Bill Dahl Rhino CD RHM2 7829 (US 2003)
3 CD setnotes by Ed Ward Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002) = Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)
2000: "soon to be released" (first issues of 30 volume Tary Owens collection)read more
Antones CD 54[obviously never happened]
notes (2005) by Paul Oliver Arhoolie CD 510 (US 2005)
on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins
notes (October 2009) by Chris Strachwitz & Adam Machado Arhoolie CD 537 (US 2009)
136-pp. book + 4 CD setnotes by Adam MachadoArhoolie CD 518 (US 2010)
Vestapol DVD 13129
112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
Additional information appreciated !!!
1) Biographer Glen Alyn (from what he understood of Lipscomb's narrative) in his biography spelled Lipscomb's given name as "Bodyglin", which proved wrong, since the name actually had been "Bowdie Glenn", a derivation of "Beau de Glenn"
thanks to Michael Birnbaum, Anthony R. Glass, Steve Franz, Juan Urbano López and Michael Hortig for additional information
Pictures of Mance Lipscomb and Michael Birnbaum
Mance Lipscomb: Captain Blues
Glen Alyn: I Say Me For a ParableThe Oral Autobiography of Mance LispcombW. W. Norton & Co. 1993
Mance Lipscomb's 'teethiz'source: I Say Me For A Parable: The Aural Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, as told to and compiled by Glen Alyn.- New York, London (W.W. Norton & Company) 1993, p. 444; photographer: Glen Alyn
Mance Lipscomb Guitar Books, Records, Videosat www.torvund.net
Mance Lipscomb source: David Harrison: Die Legenden des Blues - Eine Hommage in Bildern.- Königswinter, Germany (HEEL-Verlag) 1995, p. 44photographer: Chris Strachwitz