O. B. McClinton

O. B. McClinton grew up on a Baptist minister's farm outside Senatobia, tuning in WHBQ in Memphis, WLAC in Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry on WSM. As a teenager he ran off to Memphis, spent his savings on a guitar and had to go home. Unhappy with the studio production on his first two Enterprise albums in 1972, he asked to produce the next one himself, Live at Randy's Rodeo in 1973. Besides Charley Pride, he and Oklahoman Stoney Edwards were virtually the only Black artists with sustained country success in the 1970s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sardis Lake and Dam — 17 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 30 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Rowan Oak — 31 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• Oxford Square — 31 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.

More markers nearby

• Sid Hemphill — steps away
• Senatobia — steps away
• Jessie Mae Hemphill — 1.7 mi
• Coldwater — 5.3 mi