David "Honeyboy" Edwards (born June 28, 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, United States) is a Delta blues guitarist and singer. Image File history File links DavidHoneyboyEdwards. ... Image File history File links DavidHoneyboyEdwards. ... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Shaw is a city located in Mississippi. ... Delta blues are named for the Mississippi Delta. ...
Friend to legendary musician Robert Johnson, Edwards was present on the fateful night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that took his life. Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in 1942. Edwards is still touring the country performing and is the author of one book, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin', published in 1997 by Chicago Review Press. The book recounts his life from childhood, his journeys through the South and his arrival in Chicago in the early 1950s. A companion CD by the same title was released by Earwig Records shortly afterwards. He has also recorded digitally mastered CDs and albums at a church-turned-studio in Salina, Kansas and released on the APO label. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Lomax playing guitar, sometime between 1938 and 1950 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Salina is a city and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States. ...
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Illustrated David 'Honeyboy' Edwards discography
David Honeyboy Edwards performed in Vienna (91) 2006 at Reigen
David"Honeyboy"Edwards (born June 28, 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, United States) is a Delta blues guitarist and singer.
Friend to legendary musician Robert Johnson, Edwards was present on the fateful night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that took his life.
Edwards is still touring the country performing and is the author of one book, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin', published in 1997 by Chicago Review Press.
David"Honeyboy"Edwards not only still sings and plays the blues in the raw, unadulterated country style that he learned in the early part of the last century, but he's also a man with a wealth of fascinating tales that seem as large as any piece of American folklore.
Honeyboy: Yeah, but then you turn around and take that boogie woogie blues and drop it in low gear and play the blues and make you think the woman left you and put something on your mind.
Honeyboy: In the '40s, on up until they started tearing down Maxwell Street, I knew so many people that would come up here from Mississippi and Arkansas with their guitars and things.
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