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- Artist: Mance Lipscomb
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- Release Date: 1960
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Blues
Review
Arhoolie's Texas Sharecropper & Songster is a recording made in 1960, during the blues revival. Prior to the blues revival, Mance Lipscomb was an unknown, and his discovery was one of the positive byproducts of the revival. He was a great country-blues man, and this is perhaps his greatest effort, capturing him running through a number of traditional songs. Most of the songs are augmented by his jackknife slide guitar, and all feature his raw, haunted vocals, which make these classic songs sound timeless. ~ Thom Owens, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Sugar Babe | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:06) |
| Goin' Down Slow | Mance Lipscomb | (3:07) | |
| Freddie | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:42) |
| Jack O'Diamonds | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (4:05) |
| Baby Please Don't Go | Big Joe Williams | Mance Lipscomb | (1:47) |
| One Thin Dime | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:59) |
| Shake, Shake Mama | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:53) |
| Ella Speed | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:36) |
| Mama Don't Allow | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:26) |
| Ain't It Hard | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (3:16) |
| 'Bout a Spoonful | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (3:27) |
| Take Me Back | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (1:59) |
| Rag in "G" | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:02) |
| Big Boss Man | Mance Lipscomb | (3:09) | |
| You Gonna Quit Me, Baby | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:38) |
| Blues in G | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (4:11) |
| Mama, Don't Dog Me | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (3:23) |
| Willie Poor Boy | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (3:02) |
| Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:48) |
| Knocking Down Windows | Mance Lipscomb | Mance Lipscomb | (2:25) |
| Nobody's Fault But Mine | Mance Lipscomb | (1:27) | |
| Motherless Children | Mance Lipscomb, Traditional | Mance Lipscomb | (2:40) |
