Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 44 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518844
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 014412
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Regennia Williams, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2005 January 14.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Blues Guitarist.
- Added Author
- Lockwood, Robert Jr., 1915-2006, interviewee.Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.