A Well Spent Life (1971)
submitted by JimBruceGuitar
on 04/26/17
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"A Well Spent Life" is a deeply moving tribute to the Texas songster Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Mance was not "discovered" until 1960, when Chris Strachwitz first recorded him for Arhoolie Records. Before that, Mance lived by sharecropping, surviving the brutality of a system not much better than slavery. Amazingly, instead of growing bitter, the tough times made him sweet.
