Promo: Oral History 1996 Radio Documentary about author Glen Alyn and his story of finding redemption through blues songster Mance Lipscomb

Radio interviews with Alyn at KWBC in Navasota, TX, hometown of Lipscomb

In this promo (cassette tape recordings), Glen Alyn shares his experiences knowing and writing about Texas blues songster Mance Lipscomb.

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Alyn shares some of Lipscomb's reportoire, outro is Lipscomb playing "Night Time Is the Right Time"

These radio documentary interviews of the late Glen Alyn took place in 1996 at KWBC/KMBV-FM radio in Navasota, Texas, the hometown of blues songster Mance Lipscomb.
This podcast is Alyn's documented personal story of "Finding Mance.”
Episodes include audio clips converted from analog cassette tapes into digital format for this podcast.

Alyn was a Vietnam veteran and had been angry about the war and how other veterans were treated at homecoming. He had contempt for LBJ, but all was forgiven when in 1972 he came face to face with the war-torn president at the Kerrville Folk Festival. This festival is also where Alyn first heard Mance Lipscomb perform live his blues reportoire.

After Alyn received his degree in English from UT-Austin in 1974, he moved to Navasota and lived in a teepee and in and out of local homes so he could follow and learn from Lipscomb. Twenty years later, in 1996, Alyn came back to the small Texas town for the first Navasota Blues Festival and to promote his book I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman.

During the radio interviews Alyn discloses his redemptive experiences meeting a former U.S. president and shares stories from Lipscomb, who Alyn said was “an unheralded emissary of human rights." LBJ was also a big fan of Lipscomb, which is why he was at that Kerrville festival.

Alyn’s redemptive story is one of love and forgiveness, but most of all it’s the essential sharing of music from an American blues musician, who should never be forgotten. “Many people consider Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb to be the greatest blues guitarist and songster of all time. ” (Les Blank, documentary film maker). https://lesblank.com/films/a-well-spent-life-1971-2/

This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm