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A Well Spent Life (1971)

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A Well-Spent Life (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Doorbell Blues

A Well-Spent Life (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Is Mance Lipscomb

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A Well Spent Life (1971)

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A Well-Spent Life (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Doorbell Blues Texas blues artist Mance Lipscomb around his hometown of Navasota, about 70 miles northwest of Houston, with comments for director Les Blank and sound man Skip Gerson, then his song Doorbell Blues, from one of Blank's most celebrated documentaries, A Well Spent Life, 1971.

A Well-Spent Life (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Is Mance Lipscomb Opening from cameraman and director-producer-editor Les Blank and sound man Skip Gerson with Texas sharecropper and country blues institution Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976), with his original song Asked My Captain, opening the acclaimed A Well Spent Life, 1971.

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