 |
| Cactus Mac Collection Jim Linderman |
 |
| Cactus Mac Collection Jim Linderman |
 |
| Cactus Mac Collection Jim Linderman |
Not all guitar players take their monikers seriously, but I have the scarce photographic proof that Cactus Mac walked the walk and grew the cactus!
Cactus Mac was an obscure performer on the CKNX Barn Dance (called "Canada's Largest Traveling Barn Dance" in an equally obscure book. It was a radio program which broadcast out of Wingham, Ontario on Saturday nights from 1937 to 1963. According to the North Huron Museum in Wingham, Cactus Mac was a beloved performer…and though he was on the radio, he mugged like a TV Star in the photograph they own. Could be as Cactus Mac was a comic as well.
The website Hillbilly Music is seeking more information on Cactus Mac…well, if they are looking, now they'll know he was a botanist!
At least one recording is known, but since the show ran so long I am sure there are many. The CD Saturday Night Barn Dance volume 1 contains Mac's version of Little Brown Jug.
Three original snapshot photographs of Cactus Mac circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
See Jim Linderman Books and Ipad ebook downloads HERE
No comments:
Post a Comment