Tommy McClennan


































Tommy McClennan
Born
(1905-01-04)January 4, 1905
Durant, Mississippi, United States
Died May 9, 1961(1961-05-09) (aged 56)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres
Delta blues, country blues, blues
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1939–1942
Labels Bluebird
Associated acts Robert Petway

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




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Citation


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





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 recordings for Bluebird Records from 1939[3] through 1942. He regularly played with his friend Robert Petway.[4] His voice is heard in the background on Petway's recording of "Boogie Woogie Woman" (1942).[5] McClennan's singles in this period included "Bottle It Up and Go", "New Highway No. 51", "Shake 'Em on Down", and "Whiskey Head Woman".[5]


Several of his songs have been covered by other musicians, including "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]


John Fahey's "Screaming and Hollerin' the Blues" contains an interview with Booker Miller, a contemporary of 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 "Highway 51" on his self-titled debut album in 1962.



See also



  • List of Delta blues musicians

  • List of people from Mississippi



References





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  2. ^ Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (1st ed.). Fulham, London: Flame Tree Publishing. p. 181. ISBN 1-904041-96-5.


  3. ^ Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books. p. 13. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.


  4. ^ Robert Palmer. Deep Blues. Penguin Books. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.


  5. ^ abc Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books. p. 139. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.


  6. ^ O'Neal, Jim (1908-04-08). "Tommy McClennan | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-08-30.


  7. ^ [1] Archived June 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine




External links



  • Tommy McClennan on yazoo.org - with photograph of McClennan

  • Article on cascadeblues.com

  • Illustrated Tommy McClennan discography


  • Works by or about Tommy McClennan in libraries (WorldCat catalog)









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