Robert Nighthawk

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Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lovin' Woman 00:00 Tools
Six Three O 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues 00:00 Tools
Take It Easy Baby 00:00 Tools
Crying Won't Help You 00:00 Tools
Kansas City Blues 00:00 Tools
The Moon Is Rising 00:00 Tools
Cheating and Lying Blues 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel) 00:00 Tools
Anna Lee 00:00 Tools
Someday 00:00 Tools
Annie Lee Blues 00:00 Tools
Friar's Point Blues 00:00 Tools
Return Mail Blues 00:00 Tools
Feel So Bad 00:00 Tools
Prowling Nighthawk 00:00 Tools
Nighthawk Boogie 00:00 Tools
Don't Mistreat Your Woman 00:00 Tools
Big World Blues 00:00 Tools
Lonesome World 00:00 Tools
The Time Have Come 00:00 Tools
Freight Train Blues 00:00 Tools
Tough Luck 00:00 Tools
Bricks In My Pillow 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down To Eli's 00:00 Tools
Maggie Campbell 00:00 Tools
Maxwell Street Medley 00:00 Tools
Mr. Bell's Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Kansas City 00:00 Tools
You Missed a Good Man 00:00 Tools
Jackson Town Gal 00:00 Tools
Every Day And Night 00:00 Tools
She Knows How to Love a Man 00:00 Tools
Take It Easy, Baby 00:00 Tools
Down By The Wayside 00:00 Tools
Murderin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Seventy-Four 00:00 Tools
Sweet Pepper Mama 00:00 Tools
Anna Lee Blues 00:00 Tools
Juke Medley 00:00 Tools
Ol' Mose 00:00 Tools
Mamie Lee 00:00 Tools
I Need Love So Bad 00:00 Tools
Honey Hush 00:00 Tools
My Friend Has Forsaken Me 00:00 Tools
Murderin´ Blues 00:00 Tools
G-Man 00:00 Tools
Maggie Campbell - 1 00:00 Tools
Down the Line 00:00 Tools
All I Want For Breakfast / Them Kind Of People 00:00 Tools
Jackson Town Girl 00:00 Tools
Maxwell Street Jam 00:00 Tools
Medley-Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
Sugar Papa 00:00 Tools
C N A 00:00 Tools
Good News 00:00 Tools
Handsome Lover 00:00 Tools
Six Three 0 00:00 Tools
The Real McCoy 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues (1949) 00:00 Tools
Travelin' Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Prison Bound 00:00 Tools
I Need Your Love So Bad 00:00 Tools
Nighthawk Shuffle 00:00 Tools
I Got News for You 00:00 Tools
Burning Heat 00:00 Tools
Mama Talk to Your Daughter 00:00 Tools
Sorry My Angel 00:00 Tools
Yakity Yak 00:00 Tools
Sweet Black Angel - Single Version 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Murder My Baby 00:00 Tools
my sweet lovin' mama 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lovin' Woman - Single Version 00:00 Tools
U/S Boogie 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down To Eli's (aka I'm Gonna Murder My Baby) 00:00 Tools
Maggie Campbell (alternate) 00:00 Tools
Interview 00:00 Tools
That's All Right 00:00 Tools
Friar´s Point Blues 00:00 Tools
Mean Black Cat 00:00 Tools
Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Dust My Broom 00:00 Tools
Canned Heat 00:00 Tools
Seventy-Four (alternate) 00:00 Tools
Down By The Woodshed 00:00 Tools
Peter Gunn Jam 00:00 Tools
The Moon Is Rising (incomplete) 00:00 Tools
Tough Time 00:00 Tools
Back Water Blues 00:00 Tools
Anna Lee / Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
Back Off Jam 00:00 Tools
Annie Lee/Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
Next-Door Neighbor 00:00 Tools
Shady Lane Woman 00:00 Tools
special delivery man 00:00 Tools
A Woman on Every Street 00:00 Tools
Ash Street Boogie 00:00 Tools
Sawdust Bottom 00:00 Tools
Seventy Four 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Day Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Black Angel (Black Angel Blues) 00:00 Tools
Mean Mistreatin' Woman 00:00 Tools
Love You Tonight 00:00 Tools
Merry Christmas Baby 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lovin Woman 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Tired 00:00 Tools
I'm Gettin' Tired 00:00 Tools
All I Want for Breakfast/Them Kind of People 00:00 Tools
Friar`s Point Blues 00:00 Tools
Crowing Rooster Blues 00:00 Tools
Annie Lee - Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
CNA 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down to Eli's (A.K.A. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby) 00:00 Tools
Excerpts From Interview 00:00 Tools
Excerpts From Interview/Kansas City * 00:00 Tools
Six Three O - 1950 00:00 Tools
You Call Yourself A Cadillac 00:00 Tools
Six Three-O 00:00 Tools
Ol Mose 00:00 Tools
Prowling Night Hawk 00:00 Tools
Take A Little Walk With Me 00:00 Tools
Good Gamblin' 00:00 Tools
Blues Before Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Marnie Lee 00:00 Tools
Mean Old World 00:00 Tools
My Angel 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Blues Before Midnight 00:00 Tools
Juke Medley [Live][Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Juke Medley (Live) 00:00 Tools
Big Road Blues 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down To Eli's (A.K.A I'm gonne Murder My Baby) 00:00 Tools
Memory Of Sonny Boy 00:00 Tools
Sweet Black Angel (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Annie Lee & Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
Lula Mae 00:00 Tools
The Wrong Man 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blues 00:00 Tools
Big Fat Mama Blues 00:00 Tools
Maxwell Street (medley) 00:00 Tools
Anna Lee/Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
Big Apple Blues 00:00 Tools
Brickyard 00:00 Tools
Everything Gonna Be Alright 00:00 Tools
Merry Christmas 00:00 Tools
Cool Water Blues 00:00 Tools
The Moon Is Rising [Incomplete Take][#] 00:00 Tools
Excerpts From Interview/Kansas City 00:00 Tools
You're All I've Got To Live For 00:00 Tools
She's Got What It Takes 00:00 Tools
Gonna Keep It For My Daddy 00:00 Tools
Cheating & Lying Blues 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues; Sweet Black 00:00 Tools
Juke Medley [Live] 00:00 Tools
Seventy-Four [Alternate Take][#] 00:00 Tools
All I Want for Breakfast /Them Kind of People 00:00 Tools
G Man 00:00 Tools
I Have Spent My Bonus 00:00 Tools
She Knows How To Love 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues 00:00 Tools
Bricks In My Pillow - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Kidman Blues 00:00 Tools
Mama Don't Allow Me To Stay Out All NIght Long 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lovin´ Woman 00:00 Tools
Mama Talk to Your Daughter [#] 00:00 Tools
The Real McCoy [#] 00:00 Tools
Big World Blues [#] 00:00 Tools
Maxwell Street Jam [Live][Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Never Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Annie Lee / Sweet Black Angel 00:00 Tools
Cying Won't Help You 00:00 Tools
Black Angel Blues (Sweet Angel) 00:00 Tools
Crying Won´t Help You 00:00 Tools
someday '64 00:00 Tools
Carey Bell - Juke Medley 00:00 Tools
Maxwell Street Jam [Live] 00:00 Tools
Crowning Rooster Blues 00:00 Tools
I Got News for You [#] 00:00 Tools
THREE BALL BLUES 00:00 Tools
All I Want for Breakfast /Them Kind of People [#] 00:00 Tools
Merry Christmas, Baby 00:00 Tools
Take It Easy Baby (Live) 00:00 Tools
Seventy-Four (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Nighthawk, Robert-Six Three O 00:00 Tools
she knows how to love '49 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lovin' Woman (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
She's Leaving Me 00:00 Tools
Friars Point Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Black Angel Blues 00:00 Tools
Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down 00:00 Tools
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Robert Lee McCollum (30 November 1909–5 November 1967) was an American bluesman who played and recorded under the names Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee. There he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band. A particular influence was Houston Stackhouse, from whom he learnt to play slide guitar, and with whom he appeared on the radio in Jackson, Mississippi. After further travels through Mississippi, he found it advisable to take his mother's name, and as Robert Lee McCoy he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Local musicians with whom he played included Henry Townsend, Big Joe Williams, and Sonny Boy Williamson. This led to two recording dates in 1937, the four musicians recording together at the Victor Records studio in Aurora, Illinois, as well as recordings under his own name, including "Prowling Night-Hawk" (recorded 5 May 1937), from which he was take his later pseudonym. These sessions led to Chicago careers for the other musicians, but not for McCoy, who simply continued his rambling life, playing and recording (for Victor/Bluebird and Decca) solo and with various musicians, under various names. He also became a familiar voice on local radio stations. Then Robert Lee McCoy disappeared. Within a few years he reappeared as the electric slide-guitarist Robert Nighthawk, and began recording for Chess Records. This was also Muddy Waters' label; the two men's styles were close enough that they were in competition for promotional activity — and as Waters was the more saleable commodity, being more reliable and a more confident stage communicator, he received the attention. Though Nighthawk continued to perform and to record, he failed to achieve any great commercial success. In 1963, some ten years later, Nighthawk was discovered busking in Chicago, and this led to further recording sessions and club dates, and to his return to Arkansas, where he appeared on the King Biscuit Time radio programme. He had a stroke, followed by a heart attack, and died at his home in Helena. Recordings Robert Nighthawk: Prowling with the Nighthawk (Document) — twenty-six sides (1937–1952) recorded for Bluebird, Decca, Aristocrat, and United. Ramblin' Bob (Saga) — twenty-four sides (1937–1952) recorded for Victor, Decca, Chess, and United. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.