Robert Petway

Robert Petway

Robert Petway

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Country Strings - The Lost Songs of Robert Petway album art
  • Country Strings - The Lost Songs of Robert Petway
  • June 2025
  • 10 Songs

Top Songs

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Catfish Blues
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Rockin' Chair Blues
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Left My Baby Crying
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Don't Go Down Baby
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Let Me Be Your Boss

Albums

  • Ride 'Em on Down - a Robert Petway Anthology

    Dec 2021 • 14 songs

  • Hollow

    Sep 2018 • 11 songs

  • Ride 'Em on Down

    Jun 2015 • 14 songs

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Robert Petway

Biography

A well-respected country blues artist despite his limited output, Robert Petway was a blues guitarist who recorded eight sides for Bluebird Records in 1941 and followed those up with eight more in 1942 (of which six were issued). Little biographical information is available on Petway, although it is known that he lived and played in Mississippi. The only surviving image of him shows him in overalls, holding a metal-bodied National resonator guitar. His song "Catfish Blues" gained some notoriety when it was recorded by Muddy Waters, who renamed it "Rollin' Stone," providing the...
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