{"id":3429,"date":"2018-03-10T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2018-03-15T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:45:47","slug":"aint-you-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/aint-you-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t You Sorry (Mance Lipscomb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ain&#039;t You Sorry\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNFap9FQT78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a favorite from Mance Lipscomb which I learned in Antwerp after that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/seaboard-train\/\">winter fronting a trio in Sevilla<\/a>. Within the first week or so of getting back to Belgium I got together with a very nice woman named Miet and over the next month or so gradually moved from the third floor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/some-of-these-days\/\">Vera&#8217;s building<\/a> in the red light district to Miet&#8217;s apartment on the Vogelmarkt. That became my European base for the next couple of years and was a good place for a busker to be living, a block from the cafe terraces in front of the Rubens house (I never <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3431 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mance-Lipscomb-4-295x300.jpg?resize=295%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mance-Lipscomb-4.jpg?resize=295%2C300&amp;ssl=1 295w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mance-Lipscomb-4.jpg?w=492&amp;ssl=1 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/>liked his painting, never went in, but the terraces were great for busking and there was a good used bookstore next door) and an easy walk to the cafes by the central station in one direction and the cafes near the Groenplaats in the other.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in previous posts, the residency in Sevilla had gotten me back into country blues, and there were a few people in Antwerp who were good fingerpickers and knew that repertoire. The first I&#8217;d met back in the 1970s: a guy named Marc Chaltin who played Gary Davis style with just his thumb and middle finger, a fingerpicker from Liverpool named Les Clague, who killed me with his Blind Blake stuff, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/antelope-rag\/\">Leo Wijnkamp<\/a>, one of the great Dutch ragtime players. Now I met a younger player, Dirk Poel, who as I recall had studied flamenco with the Flemish guitarist and songwriter Wannes van de Velde.<\/p>\n<p>I only got together with Dirk a couple of times, but he turned me on to this song: my memory is that he was trying to figure out how to play it, asked me on his first visit, and I listened and figured it out, then showed it to him on his second &#8212; but it may be that he had already figured it out and showed it to me. Either way, I owe him because it&#8217;s a great guitar part and made me go back and pay more attention to Lipscomb&#8217;s playing, and singing, and song selection.<\/p>\n<p>I had not fully appreciated Lipscomb&#8217;s music, because it was so relaxed and understated. I was charmed by his versions of old pop songs and had learned his arrangement of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/shine-harvest-moon\/\">Shine On, Harvest Moon<\/a>,&#8221; but had never paid much attention to his blues &#8212; which was stupid, because he was both a very quirky and a very tasteful musician. This song is a good example, with its unusual bassline kicking the rhythm along. I mostly do different verses than he recorded and play different breaks, but the basic chart is his and started me on a Mance kick that lasted through the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>As for Dirk, he&#8217;s still going strong, playing with my old friend and sometime partner Ludo Beckers &#8212; who also used to play harmonica with Les back in the 1970s. Anyway, they&#8217;re both still playing great &#8212; and Ludo sent me some corrections to an earlier version of this post &#8212; and here&#8217;s a video from a show in November or them doing a favorite from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/i-want-you-to-know\/\">Bo Carter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Babe I Want You To Know\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqTZuLDDItw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a favorite from Mance Lipscomb which I learned in Antwerp after that winter fronting a trio in Sevilla. 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