Tommy McClennan

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Tommy McClennan
Background information
Born(1905-01-04)January 4, 1905
Durant, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMay 9, 1961(1961-05-09) (aged 56)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Guitar
  • vocals
Years active1939–1942
LabelsBluebird

Tommy McClennan (January 4, 1905[1] – May 9, 1961) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist.[2]

Life and career

McClennan was born in Durant, Mississippi, and grew up in the town. He played and sang blues in a rough, energetic style.

He made a series of

Shake 'Em on Down", and "Whiskey Head Woman".[5]

Several of his songs have been

Cross Cut Saw Blues" (covered by Albert King) and "My Baby's Gone" (Moon Mullican).[6] McClennan's "I'm a Guitar King" was included in the 1959 collection The Country Blues, issued by Folkways Records
.

McClennan died of bronchopneumonia in Chicago, Illinois, on May 9, 1961.[1][7]

Citation

"He had a different style of playing a guitar", Big Bill Broonzy said. "You just make the chords and change when you feel like changing"[5]

Charlie Patton's, in which Miller mentioned someone who is most likely Tommy McClennan, though Miller did not know his name: "... and I saw another fella he put some records out, they (him and Willie Brown
) be together, but he be by himself when I see him, they called him "Sugar"... I ain't never known him as nothing but Sugar, he put out a record called Bottle Up and Go... I sold him my guitar."

Bob Dylan covered Tommy McClennan's track, "Highway 51" (which was written by Curtis Jones), on his self-titled debut album in 1962.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Tommy McClennan". Msbluestrail.org. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  2. ISBN 1-904041-96-5
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  3. ISBN 1-85868-255-X
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  4. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6
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  5. ^
    ISBN 1-85868-255-X
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  6. ^ O'Neal, Jim (April 8, 1908). "Tommy McClennan | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  7. ^ [1] Archived June 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved March 8, 2021.

External links

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