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79R2069 JTR-D
By: Kolkhorst H.C.R. No. 24
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Known throughout the world as an inexhaustible
source of every variety of American music, Texas boasts
particularly rich reserves of the distinctive musical genre known
as the blues; and
WHEREAS, The community of Navasota exemplifies the Lone Star
State's strengths in this area, combining as it does a lively
contemporary blues scene with the birthplace of one of the great
Texas blues artists; and
WHEREAS, Blues aficionados are well aware that the beloved
singer and guitarist Mance Lipscomb was born near Navasota, and
although he was almost 65 years of age before he committed his
distinctive performance style to a recording, his wide-ranging
repertoire of blues, boogies, ballads, rags, dance tunes, and
sacred music is an apt reflection of the breadth of his home state's
musical treasures; and
WHEREAS, Mance Lipscomb's heritage lives on in present-day
Navasota, where the heirs to this profound musical legacy have
created the Navasota Blues Fest; and
WHEREAS, The Navasota Blues Fest not only brings together
blues musicians for an annual celebration of regional music but
also administers the Mance Lipscomb Scholarship Fund, which each
year awards a scholarship to a deserving senior at Navasota High
School; and
WHEREAS, Just as Mance Lipscomb personified Texas music in
his encyclopedic grasp of a host of musical styles, so the city of
Navasota is a fitting representative of the richness, power, and
variety of the Texas blues tradition; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 79th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby designate Navasota as the official Blues Capital of Texas.