McClennan, Tommy

McClennan, Tommy 8 April 1908; Yazoo City, MS – Date unknown; Chicago, IL Surprisingly little is known of the life of this unique singer and guitarist who recorded forty songs for Bluebird, plus a duet with his partner Robert Petway . His contemporaries have recorded stories of him wandering and playing for local functions and bars when he occasionally teamed up with David “Honeyboy” Edwards for dances. He seems to have met Petway in the late 1930s and they moved to Chicago around 1939. There…