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

Tommy McClennan
Born	(1905-01-04)January 4, 1905 Durant, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	May 9, 1961(1961-05-09) (aged 56) Chicago, Illinois
Genres	Delta blues, country blues, blues
Instrument(s)	Guitar
Years active	1939–1942
Labels	Bluebird

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 track, "Highway 51" (which was written by Curtis Jones), on his self-titled debut album in 1962.[8]

See also

• List of Delta blues musicians
• List of people from Mississippi

References

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)

На других языках

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[ru] Маккленнан, Томми

То́мми Маккле́ннан (англ. Tommy McClennan; 8 апреля 1908 года, Язу-Сити  (англ.) (рус., Миссисипи, США — около 1960 года, Чикаго, Иллинойс, США) — один из важнейших представителей блюза дельты Миссисипи, родился на ферме Дж. Э. Слая (англ. J. E. Sligh Farm) возле города Язу-Сити  (англ.) (рус. в штате Миссисипи. Играть на гитаре он научился сам в раннем детстве, наблюдая игру Чарли Пэттона, Томми Джонсона, Ишмана Брейси и отца Рубина Лэйси.

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