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Robert Nighthawk (born Robert Lee McCollum, Nov. 30, 1909 in Helena, Arkansas)-- now there was a slide guitar player! He not only had the speed and accuracy of Tampa Red, but he had a unique, dirty, brooding style of playing that put him at the very top of the list amongst his peers. Muddy Waters liked him so much he hired him to play at his first wedding reception, a party that got so wild that the floor of the juke joint it was held in collapsed.
Young Robert had taken up playing harmonica as a tyke, and when his family relocated to a farm in Murphy Bayou, Mississippi he began playing the guitar under the tutelage of his cousin Houston Stackhouse. He was restless sort who spent most of his life on the road, legend has it he had killed a man in self defense back in Mississippi which led him to change his surname from McCollum (sometimes spelled McCullum) to his mother's maiden name McCoy. With Stackhouse he traveled around Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri, meeting and sometimes playing with better known bluesmen such as Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Sleepy John Estes and Will Shade, even backing up country yodeler Jimmie Rodgers for a night.


1   My Sweet Lovin' Mama 2:50 
2   Down The Line 2:47 
3   Sweet Black Angel 3:03 
4   Handsome Lover 2:55 
5   She Knows How To Love A Man 3:07 
6   Annie Lee Blues 3:14 
7   Sugar Papa 2:50 
8   Return Mail Blues 3:15 
9   Good News 3:14 
10   Six Three 0 2:53 
11   Jackson Town Gal 2:51 
12   Sorry My Angel 3:33 
13   Someday 3:04 
14   Special Delivery Man 2:19 
15   Shady Lane Woman 2:59 
16   A Woman On Every Street 2:47 
17   Sawdust Bottom 2:50 
18   Ash Street Boogie 2:49 
19   Mean Mistreatin' Woman 2:48 
20   Lonesome Day Blues

Label: Orbis ‎– BLU NC 063
Series: The Blues Collection – 63
Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered 
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Genre: Blues
Style: Harmonica Blues, Chicago Blues

Bass – Jack Meyers (tracks: 12, 13), Willie Dixon (tracks: 1 to 11)
Drums – Clifton James (tracks: 12, 13)
Guitar – Buddy Guy (tracks: 12, 13)
Guitar [possible] – J.C. Cole (tracks: 14 to 20)
Harmonica – Walter Horton (tracks: 12, 13)
Piano – Pinetop Perkins* (tracks: 9 to 11), Ernest Lane (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6)
Vocals – Ethel Mae (tracks: 2, 4, 7, 9 to 11)
Vocals, Guitar – Robert Nighthawk (tracks: 1 to 13)
Vocals, Harmonica – Forrest City Joe* (tracks: 14 to 20)

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