The Mack McCormick Archive Foundation

This photo of Mack McCormick was taken by John Tennison on December 23, 2006.

    http://www.mackmccormick.org was established to serve as a public resource for information pertaining to music and cultural historian, Robert "Mack" McCormick.  This site will be expanded in the future.

    Most of McCormick's archives remain unpublished, and thus McCormick welcomes serious inquiries that would result in the preservation and publishing of his archives so that the public could benefit from them.

    As a result of preferring not use email, McCormick welcomes and encourages institutions and researchers to mail or telephone him at:

Robert "Mack" McCormick

9023 Autauga Street

Houston, TX  77080

Phone:  713-462-5114

    McCormick's contribution to researching and documenting early American music and culture is substantial.  His research has helped to uncover histories and biographical information that would likely have been lost forever had McCormick not conducted his meticulous field research of geographical locales where some of America's earliest recorded musicians were born, raised, and traveled.  For example, McCormick's research on Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas is noteworthy because Thomas was one of the oldest African Americans to record in the 1920's.  The list of others on whom McCormick has shed light is vast, and includes Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Shaw, Buster Pickens, The George and Hersal Thomas Family (including Sippie Wallace), Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Peck Kelley, and Lydia Mendoza, to name only a few.

Pictured above are Mack McCormick and John Tennison at McCormick's house in Houston, Texas on December 26, 2009.

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