Live at Skipper's: Conrad Oberg with special guests Saltwater Grass
Blind since birth, 16-year-old piano and guitar phenom Conrad Oberg taught himself to play music on a toy piano at age two and a half. By the age of four, Oberg could play anything he heard and was performing live at weddings and public events. On his 10th birthday, Oberg recorded his first album at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, backed by Jerry Lee Lewis' band, no less. Within a year, the young boy was fronting his own band, headlining major blues festivals and clubs throughout the South, including Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 2009, at the ripe old age of 15, Oberg was chosen to open the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock at the site of the original 1969 festival, performing a solo version of "The Star Spangled Banner" in tribute to Jimi Hendrix.