| Summary: | Blues guitarist and singer Robert Lockwood, Jr. was born on March 27, 1915 in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. Lockwood learned to play guitar from his stepfather, legendary blues artist Robert Johnson. He left school and began his professional career at age fifteen, traveling throughout the Mississippi Delta, playing in juke joints and parties with Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson (a.k.a. Rice Miller), Johnny Shines and others. Lockwood made his first recordings in 1941 with Doc Clayton on his famous Bluebird Sessions label out of Aurora, Illinois. That year, Lockwood returned to Helena, Arkansas where he hosted a live radio program on station KFFA. Lockwood won a number of awards, including the W.C. Handy Award for best traditional blues album and the National Heritage Fellowship Award. He held an honorary doctorates two universities. In 1989, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Lockwood passed away on November 21, 2006 at age 91.
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