Harry McClintock

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name=Harry McClintock

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birth_place=Knoxville, TN
birth_date=October 8, 1882
death_date=April 24, 1957 (Aged 74)
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other_names=Haywire Mac, Radio Mac, Strawlegs Martin
known_for=Big Rock Candy Mountain, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
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occupation=busker, cowboy, union organizer
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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?"), as well as his satirical ballad, "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." 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 1920's 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.

Discography

LPs

*"Haywire Mac" (1950, Cook Records 01124)
*"Haywire Mac" (1972, Folkways Recordings 05272)
*"Hallelujah! I'm a Bum" (1928, "His Master's Voice", Victor label #21343-B (42137)). Reverse side is "The Bum Song"

Compilations

*"Songs to Grow On, Vol. 3: This Land is My Land" (1951, Folkways Recordings 07027)
**Track 4: "Jerry, Go and Oil That Car"
*"Cowboy Songs on Folkways" (1991, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 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"

External links

* [http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/sf/mac.htm Haywire Mac on KFRC Radio]
* [http://www.folkways.si.edu/ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings]
* [http://bacm.users.btopenworld.com/CD-details5.html Harry McClintock recording at the British Archive of Country Music]
* "Allmusic Biography": cite web |last=Chadbourne |first=Eugene |title=Harry McClintock |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kifoxqwgld0e