Clyde McTenline

Clyde looking away from the camera

**"10 Gallon" Clyde McTenline** is a character introduced in the music video for Barefoot Sandpaper Hoedown, where he linedances on a terrible bluescreen over a public domain backdrop of a farmhouse. While alive he was the biggest name in Countrycore, one of the most popular genres of music in the Stickman Timeline, constantly topping the charts with his mix of Bluegrass and samples of exploding pickup trucks and pigs being slaughtered. However, when shooting the music video for a new album single, he was mysteriously murdered by an unknown assailant, causing an inter-dimensional investigation.

## Apperance

In life, he was a fit and slender Stickman, keeping in shape through a grueling regiment of line dancing and pushups. His love for fitness put him in hot water, however, when he publicly endorsed controversial criminals and fitness extremists The BMI Bandit and The Yoga Warrior in an interview.

Despite loving to proudly display his physique, he was remarkably shy about his face, straight up refusing to look into the camera for any photos or videos he did. During live shows, he would face away from the audience, and when out and about he'd wear a ski mask to further hide his identity. All most people know is that he had graying hair, blue gloves and a huge cowboy hat on wherever he went.

## Backstory

He was born in 1969, during a hootenanny in Textas by unknown parents. He was left on the dance floor and raised by pigs at a farm nearby, who taught him about money laundering in the music industry. Despite his disdain for his square dancing parents abandoning him, he soon took a interest in Countrycore and line dancing, entering several dance competitions for kids when growing up. At age 15, he joined the Countrygrind group Branded By Hayforks as a vocalist and guitarist, before going solo in his 20s to play more traditional Countrycore music in the style of Bon Journal.

After being signed to Gristle BBQ Records, he moved to Notesville and became a superstar in mainstream Scorched Dirt music with his multi platinum album "Going Hog Wild With an Axe At a Kindergarten". Its lead single, "Killing All You Fucking Pigs", became the best selling single on the Whiteboard Top 100 Scorched Dirt charts in history, beating out other legendary acts such as Anal Country and Equine Decapitation.

His life was going well for him, getting married to fellow Countrycore artist Carmen Sunderland, having a daughter and finally earning enough money to stop squatting in pig sties. However, his attempt at an Acoustic Folk album in 2010 called "Sunset on the Prairie" was considered too far out and abrasive by his fans and critics, and it put him in huge debt to his record company. He spent the rest of the decade in a downward spiral of eraser abuse, embarrassing media interviews and getting into fights with other artists.

## Murder

After becoming a born again Calenderian, he attempted to clean up his image and return to the music that made him big in 2021. Tragedy would strike, however, when shooting the music video for his new single "Infants In A Meat Grinder", as an unknown person stabbed him in the face and fled the crime scene before anybody had time to react. In an interview with part-time journalist Croc Anne, music video director Jack Eengeet described what happened as "absolutely impossible", saying neither him nor anybody on his crew saw anybody enter or leave the studio.

The famous fish detective Båtbob Skreimann was hired to investigate the murder, calling in Bubba Billy-Bob as the prime suspect in the case due to his tendency to send inter-dimensional hate mail to the victim. Bubba claimed he had an alibi, saying he "was at home writing a blog post about how John Denver killed Country music" at the time of death, but this has not been confirmed by anyone. Other suspects include Bubba's son, Clyde's family or The Dentist, though no trace of any of them were found at the crime scene either.

## Trivia

* His favorite food was smoked beer bottles with relish.
* After using sampled audio of pigs being slaughtered, his adoptive pig family disowned him and never contacted him again for the rest of his life. They did attend the funeral, however, to throw rotten potatoes at his grave.
* Despite him always accusing other artists of being part of secret societies in an attempt to discredit them, he had ties to The Church of Endless Hunger before becoming born again. Some say this is ironic, but that is still unconfirmed.
* He is named after the 10 gallon hat, aka. the classic cowboy hat. His name is also a pun on linedancing, and on tanlines because he is a line, and as thus any tan he gets is part of his tanline.