Country
United States
O.B. McClinton
About O.B. McClinton
Hometown
Senatobia, MS, United States
Born
April 25, 1940
Genre
Country
One of the few successful Black country singers of the 1970s, O.B. McClinton first forged a career as a songwriter, penning country-soul ballads for Otis Redding ("Keep Your Arms Around Me") and James Carr. (Two of McClinton’s compositions, "You’ve Got My Mind Messed Up" and "A Man Needs a Woman," stand among Carr's finest work.) McClinton then became a staff writer at Stax Records and, in January 1971, began recording as a C&W artist on the company’s Enterprise subsidiary. McClinton briefly moved to Mercury Records in 1976, where he had a hit with "Black Speck" before moving to Epic, where he scored half-a-dozen minor C&W hits.
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