 Robert Nighthawk was one of the most influential blues guitarists of the post war period, a stature he achieved without the benefit of many hit records. His song “Sweet Black Angel Blues” became a blues standard when B.B. King covered it as “Sweet Little Angel” and B.B. went on to do the same with “Crying Won’t Help You”. Across the 23 tracks presented here are top blues musicians such as, Roosevelt Sykes, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, Brownie McGhee and Pinetop Perkins. Robert Nighthawk was an important and very underappreciated bluesman whose evocative slide guitar influenced a remarkable number of musicians who followed in his wake. Fully detailed liner notes.

• 1. My Sweet Lovin' Woman - Robert Nighthawk
• 2. Down the Line - Ethel Mae
• 3. Handsome Lover - Ethel Mae
• 4. She Knows How To Love a Man
• 5. (Sweet) Black Angel Blues - the Nighthawks
• 6. Anna Lee Blues - the Nighthawks
• 7. Return Mail Blues - Robert Nighthawk
• 8. Sugar Papa - Ethel Mae
• 9. Good News - Ethel Mae
• 10. Six Three O - Nighthawks
• 11. Jackson Town Gal - Nighthawks
• 12. Prison Bound - Robert Nighthawk and His Nighthawks Band
• 13. Feel So Bad
• 14. Kansas City Blues
• 15. Crying Won't Help You
• 16. Take It Easy Baby
• 17. Nighthawk Boogie
• 18. Bricks In My Pillow
• 19. You Missed a Good Man
• 20. Maggie Campbell
• 21. The Moon is Rising
• 22. Seventy-Four
• 23. Us/Boogie