Sweet Black Angel is an album recorded by blues pianist Pinetop Perkins

Pinetop Perkins

Joseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music...

 and released in 1998. The title track is a cover of Robert Nighthawk

Robert Lee McCollum

Robert Lee McCollum was an American blues musician, who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.-Robert Lee McCoy:...

's 1949 "Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)" (based on Lucille Bogan

Lucille Bogan

Lucille Bogan was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson...

's "Black Angel Blues

Black Angel Blues

"Black Angel Blues", also known as "Sweet Black Angel" or "Sweet Little Angel", is a blues standard that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists. The song was first recorded in 1930 by Lucille Bogan, one of the classic female blues singers...

" from 1930 (covered by Tampa Red

Tampa Red

Tampa Red , born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician....

 in 1934 with the same title and recut by Tampa Red in 1950 as "Sweet Little Angel." B. B. King

B. B. King

Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...

 later covered "Sweet Black Angel" as "Sweet Little Angel" in 1956.

The last track features Perkins playing a boogie on acoustic guitar and remarking on the apparent clumsiness of his finger work.

Track listing

1. "Lend Me Your Love"
2. "What's the Matter with the Mill"
3. "Five Long Years
   Five Long Years
   "Five Long Years" is a song written and recorded by blues vocalist/pianist Eddie Boyd in 1952. Called one of the "few postwar blues standards [that has] retained universal appeal", Boyd's "Five Long Years" reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart...
   
   " - E. Boyd
   Eddie Boyd
   Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd was an American blues piano player, born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States.-Life and career:...
   
   
4. "Down The Road I'll Go"
5. "View From The Top"
6. "Look on Yonder Wall
   Look on Yonder Wall
   "Look on Yonder Wall", or "Get Ready to Meet Your Man" as it was first named, is a blues song first recorded in 1945 by James "Beale Street" Clark. Clark, also known as "Memphis Jimmy", was a blues pianist from Memphis, Tennessee...
   
   " - E. James
   Elmore James
   Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.-Biography:James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in...
   
   
7. "Who's Ol' Muddy Shoes"
8. "I'd Rather Quit Her Than Hit Her"
9. "Rain"
10. "Pinetop's Special"
11. "How Long Blues"
12. "Sweet Black Angel"