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Joseph Spence and Mance Lipscombby Bob SUka Stylists with a Country FlavorWhy is it that when someone one else can put you In quite the the expresses joy it docs not really matter state of mind as that derived from whether it is coherent of not? Then listening to Spence. It is dizzying. It teems to be as much charm, atmuch does not seem to matter what he is power, in nonsensical Joy, as in a singing, whether it is When the Saints steadied statement of the same good Come Marching In or Santa Claus Is feeling. Isn't that what Joy is all about, a Coming to Town(two songs he playedSunday); it i* the musical expression that mattera, not the words.Mance Lipscomb's approach to song is much more earthly. He Is a story-teller as well as a musician, and his playing and singing match smoothly. He Plays both bottle-neckcrazy gentle Hinging of words and thoughts to all six sides of the room?Joseph Spence and Mancc Lipscomb recently performed in a concert pul on by the Boston Blues Society in one of the Harvard buildings.Spence and Lipscomb are two fine old . ___men who play guitar and sing, with and finger-picking guitar, and has a solid completely different styles. *n« of country blues and hillbillySpence’s style is the strangest, and styles. He did T for Texas, a song of he opened the show. If traditional Himmy Rodgers, The Singing raunc has an avant-garde, Spence would Brakeman, and a number of blusicr be it. He comes from the Bahamas, and tunes like C. C. Rider and All Night learned a lot of hfa material from Long, At another concert, h. had done Amencan and Engbsh records, as well as--shine On Harvest Moon. Before he Bthamun ones. He often does not was discovered about ten years ago, know the words to the songs he plays, he was known In his neighborhood of and he really does not care either. He is Navasota, Texas, as the best back porch a self-proclaimed non-conformist; lmger around, and (us choice of songs nobody else plays the way he does, and ,h0Ws it. Both Uspcomb and Spence he has been playing that way for,fe natural artieti, completely forty-eight years. (Ry Ceedrr haidc¥C,opcd away from any approached him but his versions of commercialism and recording studio. Great Dreams of Heaven” and The end result is honesty and joy. in Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer do their art and their persons. In other not really come dose to the happy words, they are good to listen to.insanity and Intricacy of Spence's versions.)When Spence plays, he growls mtlodkally, catching in on the words now and then. The effect, besides being bizarre, tells us scfmething of what music is all about: communication of a pleasing emotion through melody.In- talking with Spence after the sets, it was good to ree just what kind of perion he was, a man who understands himself and his audience; and rejoices in his own oretinM*! I am the funniest man in the world... I know when I come here to the United States that alla fool ol me. 1 don't care. I just Live an$ have fun and have everyone laugh atme. He Is a brick mason,a plumber.hs goes to deep listening to sermons on theradio, and is Just about the wisest and funniest man one might ever meet. Mancc said this about Spence: You can’t tell just what he's doing sometimes; but he sure knows what he's doing.-Tillie OlsenWords of a Poetess Spoken at UMassMsdliphotoi Wonaby Andrea Furhmansounds that are nice to hear (right?); no these people with education are makingAuthoress Tillie Oton-UMass Boston November l«,W2. read from her book of short stoieij I
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Mon, Nov 27, 1972
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