Robert Squared

Robert Lockwood Jr. was born on March 27, 1915 in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. 1915 was a special year, as several other influential blues artists were born within a 100-mile radius; most notably, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Little Walter Jacobs, Memphis Slim, Johnny Shines, and Honeyboy Edwards, with whom he would play with in later years. It's no wonder Robert Lockwood Jr. had something special. He learned from the best. At age eleven he learned to play the guitar from Robert Johnson himself, who was living with Lockwood's mother at the time. He was already playing professionally by age fifteen, occasionally with Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson II. He later reunited with Sonny in 1941, and they began hosting a radio show. Later Lockwood settled in Chicago in the early 1950s, and became a top session man for Chess Records. He continued to record and tour well into his 80's, and passed away at the age of 91 in 2006.