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 best known for his song Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his depression-era ballad, Hallelujah! I'm a Bum. He was also 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 McClintock was from Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Discography

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

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