Robert Nighthawk - Live on Maxwell Street 1964
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Artist: Robert NighthawkEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Bullseye Blues
Soundtracks:
- Cheating And Lying Blues
- Juke Medley
- The Time Have Come
- Honey Hush
- I Need Your Love So Bad
- Take It Easy Baby
- Anna Lee/Sweet Black Angel
- Big World Blues
- Maxwell Street Jam
- I Got News For You
- All I Want For Breakfast/Them Kind Of People
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter
- The Real McCoy
- Interview
Free Music Notes for Live on Maxwell Street 1964
Free Music Review: One of the all-time classic blues records
Hit: 5 Stars
Robert Lee McCollum was one of the major innovators of electric blues. He was a stylish and extremely versatile slide guitarist, and the man behind blues classics such as "Anna Lee" and the definitive reading of "Sweet Black Angel" (a song which is usually associated with B.B. King, who re-named it "Sweet Little Angel").
Nighthawk was a source of inspiration to both Muddy Waters and Elmore James, and it is easy to understand why once you have listened to this album.
Producer Norman Dayron recorded Nighthawk for his film "And this is Live" on the corner of Peoria and 14th Street in Chicago, Illinois, on September 24th 1964, and all 125 minutes of recordings are avilable on the excellent box set "And This Is Maxwell Street".
That one is a treasure for sure, but slightly more casual fans should be aware that almost all of the recordings featuring Robert Nighthawk are included on this disc, and the remaining sides, which features artists like Big John Wrencher and Arvella Gray, are perhaps more for the truly dedicated. Me, I love the two-hour box set, but I have no doubt that a lot of people will be better served by this condensed version.
These sides are certainly terrific no matter how you look at it. Robert Nighthawk is backed by just drums and a rhythm guitar on most of the tracks, although on three or four of them, harpist Carey Bell lends a hand.
The sound is surprisingly good, considering the circumstances (you can sometimes hear people talking, applauding and yelling in the background, and even a car driving by!), and the songs are simply excellent. Nighthawk does a raw, powerful cover of Big Joe Turner's "Honey Hush", a slow, menacing "Cheating And Lying Blues", a mournful "I Need Your Love So Bad", and a terrific medley of "Anna Lee" and "Sweet Black Angel" which will make you look quite silly as you move your upper body back and forth to the rhythm!
Nighthawk's amplified slide guitar playing is every bit as powerful as anything ever recorded by Muddy Waters or slide specialist Earl Hooker, and since he usually played in standart tuning (an unusual choice), he was able to suddenly crank out a fiery, twelve-bar single-string solo...evident on "The Time Have Come", which should be a blueprint for everyone who wishes to play electric blues!
On the CD reissue of this album, four bonus cuts and an interview segment with Nighthawk is added. One of the bonus tracks is an exuberant live version of "Mama Talk To Your Daughter", the J.B. Lenoir classic, and even though it's really impossible to be sure, the credits list Lenoir himself as the singer. A more likely bid appears to be the lesser-known Robert "Big Mojo" Elam, however. He seems to have gotten his nickname because of his rousing performances of the song "Mojo Boogie" by, yes, J.B. Lenoir.
Robert Nighthawk never achieved the blues icon status of his Chicago contemporaries Waters, Earl Hooker and Elmore James, partly because of his seeming lack of interest in recording, but he was nevertheless one of the first to effortlessly bridge the gap between country blues and urban blues, and he should be recognized as one of the true greats of the Chicago blues scene. His slide guitar playing could be raw and gritty or smooth as cream, and this album is one of the essentials of any collection of electric Chicago blues (along with "Muddy Waters at Newport", "Down And Out Blues" by Sonny Boy Williamson II, Howlin' Wolf's first two LPs, and pretty much anything by Elmore James!).
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