Harry McClintock (8 October 1882 - 24 April 1957), also known as "Haywire Mac," was an American country music composer and labor organizer, best known for his song "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (featured in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?), as well as his satirical ballad, "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." He is 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. In the early 1920's he worked and organized union men in the oil fields of west Texas, where he met and recruited writer Jim Thompson, who later incorporated him into several short stories using the name "Strawlegs Martin." McClintock was from Knoxville, Tennessee. Having worked as a cowboy himself, McClintock was one of the few "country" singers who had an authentic background from which to draw. Discography LPs · Haywire Mac

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