Mance Lipscomb

Mance Lipscomb

male, deceased (1976)
musician, African American, from Texas, Indian, guitarist, singer…revival, Rootsrevival
Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 - January 30, 1976) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas,...
Jack Owens

Jack Owens

male, deceased (1997)
D-minor, blues revival, Rootsrevival, rum-running, tuning, harmonica
Jack Owens (November 17, 1904 (?) - Yazoo City, Mississippi February 9, 1997) (born L. F. Nelson) was a blues singer and guitarist from Bentonia,...
Robert Wilkins

Robert Wilkins

male, deceased (1987)
Spottswood, blues revival, Rootsrevival, American, from Mississippi, church of god in christ
Robert Timothy Wilkins was a seminal blues guitarist and vocalist. Of African American and Cherokee descent, he was born January 16, 1896, in...
John Lent

John Lent

male, 61 years old
poet, Antigonish, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, Rootsrevival, New Okanagan College, So it Won't Go Away…Roots
John Lent (born 1948) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. Lent studied at the...

Cissie Caudeiron

female, deceased (1968)
creole, dominica, From Dominica, folklorist, Roseau, Creole peoples…Rootsrevival
Mabel Alice "Cissie" Caudeiron (born Roseau December 20, 1909 - 1968) was a folklorist from Dominica. Caudeiron became famous as a Creole...

Ferenc Sebő

male
musician, hungarian, folklorist, Rootsrevival, Muzsikás, Sebő Ensemble
Ferenc Sebő is a Hungarian folklorist and musician, best known as the bandleader for the Sebő Ensemble, a band that produced many future stars, in...