Houston Stackhouse

Houston Goff (September 28, 1910 – September 23, 1980), known as Houston Stackhouse, was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. He is best known for his association with Robert Nighthawk. He was not especially noted as a guitarist or singer, but Nighthawk showed gratitude to Stackhouse, his guitar teacher, by backing him on a number of recordings in the late 1960s. Apart from a brief tour in Europe, Stackhouse confined his performing to the area around the Mississippi Delta. He was the son of Garfield Goff and was raised by James Wade Stackhouse on the Randall Ford Plantation. He learned the details of his parentage only when he applied for a passport later in life. whom he taught to play the guitar. Originally a fan of Tommy Johnson, Stackhouse often covered his songs. with the drummer James "Peck" Curtis, the guitarist Joe Willie Wilkins and the pianists Pinetop Perkins and Robert Traylor. Sonny Boy Williamson II then rejoined the program, and that combo performed across the Delta, using their radio presence to advertise their performances. In his sole trip overseas, in 1976, he performed in Vienna, Austria.

The acoustic stage at the annual Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival is named after Stackhouse.

In 2025 the Killer Blues Headstone Project placed the headstone for Houston Stackhouse at the Community Cemetery in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

Discography Albums Cryin' Won't Help You (1972, reissued 1994), Genes Records Big Road Blues (1999), Wolf Records