Robert Lewis Burns Jr. (November 24, 1950 – April 3, 2015) was an American drummer who was in the original lineup of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[2] He helped to form Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1964 with Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom and remained until 1974, although by some accounts he left the band for a while during the early 1970s.

During a brief period in the early 1970s, Medlocke occasionally played alongside Burns on drums for live shows, a two-drummer lineup similar to the Allman Brothers Band.

On March 13, 2006, he rejoined Lynyrd Skynyrd for one performance, playing alongside Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Ed King, Artimus Pyle and The Honkettes at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Burns died on April 3, 2015, in a single-car crash after hitting a mailbox and tree on a sharp curve in Cartersville, Georgia, shortly after leaving his home.