He spent a lifetime collecting the blues. The Smithsonian listened
PostGuam,
Robert "Mack" McCormick's life was all about the blues. His Houston home was stuffed with reel-to-reel tapes, research files…
Biography of a Phantom
Smithsonian
He spent a lifetime collecting the blues. The Smithsonian listened.
Alaska Despatch News,
Robert “Mack” McCormick’s life was all about the blues. His Houston home was stuffed with reel-to-reel tapes, research files…
He spent a lifetime collecting the blues. The Smithsonian listened.
Washington Post,
Smithsonian’s Folkways label and American History Museum are releasing Robert ‘Mack’ McCormick’s tapes, research and writings…
Legendary Bluesman Robert Johnson Had Demons. So Did His Biographer
Smithsonian Magazine,
For decades, starting in the early 1970s, the eccentric amateur folklorist and musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick labored and…