A highly influential blues slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk, adapted and refined his technique on the instrument to accompany his mournful vocal style. Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Earl Hooker are ...

Robert Nighthawk never won the acclaim of many other Chicago blues guitarists of his generation, the one that came up from the Delta to plug the blues into an amplifier. But to those who were there, ...

RAMBLING MAN: Nighthawk liked the road. Robert Lee McCullom was born Nov. 1, 1909, in Helena. The Phillips County river port was a major player in the development of Mississippi Delta blues, and ...