# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-lockwood-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:40:07.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-lockwood-jr"
name: "Robert Lockwood Jr."
slug: "robert-lockwood-jr"
description: "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."
tagline: "American Delta blues guitarist (1915-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Lockwood_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1915-03-27"
deathDate: "2006-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.59226533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516946/"
    handle:    "nm0516946"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.robertlockwood.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump