Robert Lee McCoy

Given birth to Robert Lee McCollum on November 30, 1909 in Helena, Arkansas, the person who later on became referred to as Robert Nighthawk was a busking musician in early stages, journeying through Mississippi and settling for a while in Memphis, Tennessee, where he used several local music artists and bands, like the Memphis Jug Music group. After another stint playing and wandering in Mississippi, he got his mother’s name and started phoning himself Robert Lee McCoy. Possessing a good slide guitar design, he recorded several sides beneath the McCoy name, including “Prowling Night-Hawk,” for Victor Information in Aurora, Illinois in 1937. Settling in St. Louis, Missouri, he monitored additional edges for the Victor, Bluebird, and Decca imprints under different titles. He re-emerged in the past due ’40s as the slip guitarist Robert Nighthawk, documenting for Aristocrat and Chess Information, but soon fallen out of view again, and then become rediscovered busking within the roads of Chicago in 1963, which resulted in further recording times and club looks. He continued to try out frequently on Maxwell Road in Chicago before time for Helena, Arkansas, in which a coronary attack and stroke finished his existence on November 5, 1967 at age 57. He’s the daddy of blues musician Sam Carr.