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Of all pivotal numbers in blues history, one among the main was Robert Nighthawk. He bridged the space between Delta and Chicago blues easily, taking his slip cues from Tampa Crimson and stamping them with a Mississippi advantage learned first hands from his cousin, Houston Stackhouse. Though he documented from …

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 …

b. 11 Oct 1900, Nesbit, Mississippi, USA, d. 1969, Mississippi, USA. Joe Callicott spent his very existence in the region south of Memphis, and his music provides affinities with this of his neighbour Jim Jackson and specifically Frank Stokes, with whom he occasionally proved helpful in Memphis. His key musical …