Robert Nighthawk Tooms Bio:
Robert Nighthawk Tooms is a 30 year veteran of Beale Street and the Blues. He started playing the piano at the age of 6 and by the time he hit his teens he had fallen in love with the Blues. He has been creating music with The Reba Russell Band since 1991 and also records and writes music with his own band, The Wampus Cats. He is endorsed by the Hammond-Suzuki organ company, makers of the B-3.
He has worked with such blues greats as: B.B. King, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Paul Burlison, Billy Lee Riley, The Hi Rhythm Section, Mark Wearner, Richard Hite of Canned Heat, Big Bill Morganfield, Earl Forest, James Cotton, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton, Willie Foster, Blind Mississippi Morris, The Memphis Sheiks, Don McMinn, Tracy Nelson, Larry Raspberry, Reverend Horton Heat, Bob Margolin and Jimmy Thackery.
Robert Nighthawk has appeared at venus around the world including these: Distillery Blues Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; King Biscuit blues Festival, Helene, Arkansas; Smokin' Moe's, Winter Park, Colorado; Ozark Blues Festival, Springfield, Missouri; Duvelblues Festival, Puurs, Belgium; Goorblues, Gooreind,Wuustwezel, Belgium; B.B. King's Blues Club, Memphis, TN; Memphis in May, Memphis, TN; Toyland Ball, Tulsa, OK; Banana Peel, Ruiselede, Belgium; Mile High Blues Festival, Denver, Colorado; De Steiger in Menen, Belgium; Hot August Blues Festival, Kenlake’s amphitheatre, Kenlake, KY; Bluesclub XXL Wageningen, Netherlands; Eureka Springs Blues Festival, Eureka Springs, AR; Quincy Blues Festival, Quincy, IL; Good Shepherd Manor Fall Fest, Momence, IL; Sedalia Blues Festival, Sedalia, VA; The Ellington, Lynchburg, VA; Big Lick Music Festival, Roanoke, VA; Bugaboos Bluesfestival, Mol, Belgium-Flanders; Fort Smith Blues Festival, Fort Smith, AR; Downtown Blues & BBQ Festival, Texarkana, TX.
Recording Credits:
Roberts Recording Performances
• The Reba Russell Band - Bleeding Heart
• The Reba Russell Band - Broke Down But Not Out
• The Reba Russell Band - Restless
• The Reba Russell Band - Rewound
• The Reba Russell Band - Buried Treasure
• The Reba Russell Band - City of the Blues
• Blind Mississippi Morris - Back Porch Blues
• The Memphis Sheiks - Slow-Cooked Pig Meat
• The Memphis Sheiks - Diamond in the Bluff
• The Memphis Sheiks - Up to No Good, Again
• Eddie Juke - It's a Memphis Thang! (UK)
• Big Bill Morganfield - Nineteen Years Old (Germany)
• Willie Foster, Henry Townsend, Fred Sanders,
• Blind Mississippi Morris Live in St. Louis
• Willie Foster - My Inspiration
• Wally Ford & the Lizard Kings - Crawling like a Lizard
• The "M" Clan - The M Clan (Spain)
• Carol Plunk - A Piece of Me
• Blind Mississippi Morris - Live at the BBC! Paul Jones Show (UK)
• Tom Hackenberger and Friends - Memphis Music Sampler
• Barbara Pittman - First Lady of Sun Records
• Reverend Horton Heat - 706 Union Avenue
• Robert Nighthawk II and the Wampus Cats - Toastin' the Blues
• Robert Nighthawk II and the Wampus Cats - Spectator Shoes
• Another Saturday Night Memphis Sheiks
• Foot Hill Stomp (2002) Richard Johnston
• BSR Robert Allen Parker
• Memphis Belles: Past, Present and Future
• n the Mood for Memphis Various Artists
• Weekend in Memphis(2006) McCarty-Hite Project
• Two in the Morning(2007) Eric Hughes
• Instrumental Memphis Music Sampler, Vol. 2 Various Artists
• Back Porch Blues(2008) Blind Mississippi Morris
• Memphis Music Sampler Various
• Live in St. Louis Henry Townsend, Willie Foster, Fred Sanders,
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Blind Mississippi Morris
• Keeping the Blues Alive Memphis Blues Society
