Robert Nighthawk

Robert Nighthawk, born as Robert Lee McCullum ( born November 30, 1909 in Helena, Arkansas, USA, † November 5, 1967 ) was an American blues musician.

Robert Nighthawk grew up on a farm. First experiences with the music he collected when a friend in 1923 inspired him to learn the harmonica. When he, in the 1930s, worked on a farm with his cousin, Houston Stackhouse, he learned to play guitar. Robert, his cousin and his brother appeared at festivals and parties together as a blues band.

Some time later moved Nighthawk to Memphis (Tennessee), where he performed with John Lee Hooker in New Daisy Theatre and also together with the Memphis Jug Band. The mid-1930s he moved to St. Louis, where he played with Henry Townsend, the star of the St. Louis blues scene together. He stepped on it under different names, such as Robert Lee McCoy, Rambling Bob or Peetie 's Boy. End of 1930 he came to Chicago to record his first solo album; Prowling Night - Hawk was to become one of his best-selling songs. After this song he called himself definitively Robert Nighthawk. In the early 1950s he recorded for the label United. The album "Live on Maxwell Street" was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989.

A son Nighthawks was the drummer Sam Carr (1926-2009), who played with Frank Frost and recorded.

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• Various Artists And This Is Maxwell Street ( 1964)