Houston Stackhouse

The mentor of Delta slide virtuoso Robert Nighthawk, Houston Stackhouse by no means achieved exactly the same commercial or artistic success as his famed pupil, and remained small known beyond his indigenous Mississippi. Given birth to in the tiny city of Wesson on Sept 28, 1910, he was a devotee of Tommy Johnson, whose tunes he frequently protected; neither a particularly gifted vocalist nor guitarist, he was quickly surpassed from the youthful Nighthawk, even though college student repaid his debt by support Stackhouse on some sessions cut through the middle- to past due ’60s. Beyond the rare Western tour, Stackhouse was mainly limited to playing Delta boundary towns through the entire most his profession; he passed away in Houston, Tx in 1980.