Harry McClintock
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| Harry McClintock | |
 Harry McClintock CD cover
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| Born | October 8, 1882 Knoxville, Tennessee |
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| Died | April 24, 1957 (Aged 74) |
| Other names | Haywire Mac, Radio Mac, Strawlegs Martin |
| Occupation | busker, cowboy, union organizer |
| Known for | Big Rock Candy Mountain, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum |
Harry McClintock (8 October 1882 - 24 April 1957), also known as "Haywire Mac," was an American country music composer, hobo, and labor organizer, best known for his song "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (featured in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?). The song reached #1 on Billboard's "Hillbilly Hits" chart in 1939. He is credited as being the first person to sing "The Preacher and the Slave," a song by Joe Hill, in public. He was a lifelong member of the Industrial Workers of the World. In the early 1920s he worked and organized union men in the oil fields of west Texas, where he met and recruited writer Jim Thompson, who later incorporated him into several short stories using the name "Strawlegs Martin." McClintock was from Knoxville, Tennessee. Having worked as a cowboy himself, McClintock was one of the few "country" singers who had an authentic background from which to draw.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] LPs
- Haywire Mac (1950, Cook Records 01124)
- Haywire Mac (1972, Folkways Records 05272)
- Hallelujah! I'm a Bum (1928, "His Master's Voice", Victor label #21343-B (42137)). Reverse side is "The Bum Song"
[edit] Compilations
- Songs to Grow On, Vol. 3: American Work Songs (1951, Folkways Records 07027)
- Track 4: Jerry, Go and Oil That Car
- Cowboy Songs on Folkways (1991, Smithsonian Folkways 40043)
- Track 7: Utah Carl
- Folk Song America, Vol. 1 (1991, Smithsonian Collection 461)
- Track 5: Big Rock Candy Mountain
- When I Was a Cowboy, Vol. 1 (1996, Yazoo Records 2022)
- Track 9: Sam Bass
- Train 45: Railroad Songs of the Early 1900s (1998, Rounder Select 1143)
- Track 20: Jerry, Go Oil That Car
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Lost Highway Records 170069)
- Track 2: Big Rock Candy Mountain
