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Robert Nighthawk

Robert Nighthawk (born 1909 in Helena, Arkansas, United States) was an American blues musician who performed and recorded under the names Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He left home young and became a busking musician, traveling through southern Mississippi before settling for a time in Memphis, where he played with local musicians and learned slide guitar from Houston Stackhouse. After taking his mother’s name, he moved to St. Louis in the mid-1930s and played with Henry Townsend, Big Joe Williams and Sonny Boy Williamson, leading to two recording dates in 1938. He also ...