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Robert Lockwood, Jr.

American Delta blues guitarist (1915–2006)

Robert Lockwood Jr., a.k.a. Robert Jr.

Lockwood, was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson.

Robert Lockwood was one of the first professional black entertainers to appear on radio in the South, on the King Biscuit Time radio show. Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.

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Robert Lockwood, Jr.

what: one person
from: Arkansas
born: 1915
until: 2006
on the air here: 1 song

File card: Robert Lockwood, Jr.

labels: Bluebird Records, Delmark Records

genres: blues

awards: Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

plays: guitar

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Early life

Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, a hamlet west of Helena. He was one of two children born to Robert Lockwood Sr. and Esther Reese Lockwood, later known as Estella Coleman. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of eight. His parents divorced, and later the famous bluesman Robert Johnson lived with Lockwood's mother for 10 years off and on.

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Early career

By age 15, Lockwood was playing professionally at parties in the Helena area. He often played with his quasi-stepfather Robert Johnson and with Sonny Boy Williamson II and Johnny Shines. Lockwood played at fish fries, in juke joints, and on street corners throughout the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s. On one occasion he played on one side of the Sunflower River while Johnson played on the other, with the people of Clarksdale, Mississippi, milling about the bridge, reportedly unable to tell which guitarist was the real Robert Johnson.

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Later career

In 1960, Lockwood moved with Williamson to Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided for the second half of his life. In the early 1960s, as Bob Lockwood Jr. and Combo, he had a regular gig at Loving's Grill, at 8426 Hough Avenue. From the 1970s through the 2000s, he performed regularly with his band the All Stars at numerous local venues, including Pirate's Cove, the Euclid Tavern, Peabody's, Flipside Tavern, Wilbert's, Brother's Lounge, and, in the last years of his career, Fat Fish Blue (on the corner of Prospect and Ontario in downtown Cleveland) every Wednesday night. He played his regular three sets two days before the illness which led to his death. The All Stars continued the Wednesday residency for two years after his death.

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American blues singer and guitarist, who first recorded for Bluebird in Chicago in 1941. Husband of . Born: March 27, 1915 Turkey Scratch, west of Helena, Arkansas. Died: November 21, 2006 Cleveland, Ohio. Also known as: Lockwood, Lockwood Jr., Lockwood, Jr., Lockwwod, R Lockwood From Discogs (free to use). Their entry