Robert Nighthawk - Collection 1937-52Robert Nighthawk, also known during the early years of his career by the name of Robert Lee McCoy, as well as other pseudonyms like Ramblin' Bob and Peetie's Boy, was a blues slide guitarist, singer and songwriter whose influence far outweighs the recognition and visibility his recordings have enjoyed in subsequent decades. Born in Arkansas, he was an itinerant musician, working in Memphis and St. Louis, before doing his first recordings for Bluebird

Prague Philharmonia Wind Quintet with Ivan Klánský are presenting us highly professional and truly enjoyable interpretation of all these pieces

who all had hits on the label

offering a rather different slant on the pop music of the 1940s from that typified by the mainstream sweet orchestras of the era

Since 2016

but mainly comprises selected A & B sides from his releases for Mercury over the first decade or so with the label

refreshingly pure document that will delight

This continues the strand of R&B and country collections associated with Acrobat's highly popular "America's Greatest Hits" series

Her enemies may be the same

He was an artist who very much typified the musical atmosphere of New Orleans in that era

including the R&B No

With an essay by acclaimed rock & roll and R&B historian

Dizzy Gillespie and others