Harry McClintock
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Harry McClintock (October 8, 1882 - April 24, 1957), also known as "Haywire Mac," was an American country music composer and labor organizer, best known for his song Big Rock Candy Mountain (which was in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou?), as well as his ballad, "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum". He was also credited as being the first person to sing in public "The Preacher and the Slave", a song by Joe Hill. He was a lifelong member of the Industrial Workers of the World. McClintock was from Knoxville, Tennessee.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] LPs
- Haywire Mac (1950, Cook Records 01124)
- Haywire Mac (1972, Folkways Recordings 05272)
- Hallelujah! I'm a Bum (197?, Rounder Records 1009)
[edit] 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 Ile That Car
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Lost Highway Records 170069)
- Track 2: Big Rock Candy Mountain
