Robert Lockwood Jr., also known as
Robert Junior Lockwood, (Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, March 27, 1915 – Cleveland, Ohio, November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime collaborator with
Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with
Little Walter. Robert Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, a hamlet west of Helena, Arkansas. He started playing the organ in his father's church at the age of 8. The famous bluesman Robert Johnson live…
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