Mighty Sam McClain United States
Biography
"America’s best purveyor of red-clay soul blues…" Sam McClain was born on the northern edge of the Bible Belt in Monroe, Louisiana in 1943. As a five-year-old, he began singing in his mother’s Gospel Church. It was then that he realized singing was his mission. He left home when he was thirteen to escape an abusive stepfather and followed a local R&B guitarist, "Little Melvin" Underwood through the Chitlin Circuit, first as his valet and then as lead vocalist himself at 15.
