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David "Honeyboy" Edwards

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David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.<ref name=obit/>

BiographyEdit

Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi.<ref name="allaboutjazz">Edwards biographical page Template:Webarchive. Allaboutjazz.com. Accessed February 2008.</ref> He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist.<ref name="nhf">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with the famed blues musician Robert Johnson, with whom he developed a close friendship. Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that killed him,<ref>Guralnick, Peter (1989). Searching for Robert Johnson.</ref> and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines. He described the itinerant bluesman's life: Template:Quote

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Edwards in performance, Somerset, Kentucky, July 19, 2008

The folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1942 for the Library of Congress.<ref name="allaboutjazz"/> Edwards recorded 15 album sides of music,<ref name="allaboutjazz"/> including his songs "Wind Howlin' Blues" and "The Army Blues".<ref name="russell">Template:Cite book</ref> He did not record commercially until 1951, when he recorded "Who May Be Your Regular Be" for Arc under the name Mr. Honey.<ref name="allaboutjazz"/> Edwards claimed to have written several well-known blues songs, including "Long Tall Woman Blues" and "Just Like Jesse James". His discography for the 1950s and 1960s amounts to nine songs from seven sessions.<ref name="russell"/> From 1974 to 1977, he recorded tracks for his first full-length LP, I've Been Around, released in 1978 by the independent label Trix Records<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> and produced by the ethnomusicologist Peter B. Lowry. Kansas City Red played for Edwards for a brief period, and Earwig recorded them in 1981, along with Sunnyland Slim and Floyd Jones, for the album Old Friends Together for the First Time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His autobiography, The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards, published in 1997 by the Chicago Review Press,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> recounts his life from childhood, his travels through the American South, and his arrival in Chicago in the early 1950s. A companion CD with the same title was released by Earwig Music. His long association with the Earwig label and with his manager, Michael Frank, led to several late-career albums on various independent labels from the 1980s on. He also recorded at a church turned recording studio in Salina, Kansas, and released albums on the APO label. Edwards continued the rambling life he described in his autobiography, touring well into his 90s.

Between 1996 and 2000, he was nominated for eight W. C. Handy/Blues Music Awards, including for his albums White Windows, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin', Mississippi Delta Blues Man, and a 2007 album on which he appears with Robert Lockwood Jr., Henry Townsend and Pinetop Perkins titled Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas.<ref name="blues"/> The latter album won a Grammy Award in 2008.<ref name="grammy"/> He also won the W. C. Handy Blues Award in 2005 and the Blues Music Award in 2007 for Acoustic Blues Artist.<ref name="blues"/> In 2010, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name="grammy"/>

On July 17, 2011, Frank announced that Edwards would retire because of ill health.<ref>Marshal, Matt (2011). "David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Retires" Template:Webarchive. American Blues Scene. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.</ref>

Edwards died of congestive heart failure at his home on August 29, 2011, at about 3 a.m.<ref name=obit>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Death>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to events listings on the Metromix Chicago website, he had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.<ref name="chicago.metromix.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

DiscographyEdit

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Edwards and band
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Edwards at the Adams Avenue Roots Festival, San Diego, 2005
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Edwards and Pinetop Perkins at the Master Musicians Festival, Somerset, Kentucky, July 19, 2008
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Edwards performing with Devil in a Woodpile at the Hideout, Chicago
  • "Build a Cave"/"Who May Be Your Regular Be" (ARC, 1951)
  • "Drop Down Mama" (Chess, 1953)
  • I've Been Around (Trix Records, 1978, 1995)
  • Mississippi Delta Bluesman (Folkways Records, 1979)
  • Old Friends (Earwig, 1979)
  • White Windows (Blue Suit, 1988)
  • Delta Bluesman (Earwig/Indigo, 1992)
  • Crawling Kingsnake (Testament, 1997)
  • World Don't Owe Me Nothing, recorded live (Earwig, 1997)
  • Don't Mistreat a Fool (Genes, 1999)
  • Shake 'Em On Down (APO, 2000)
  • Mississippi Delta Bluesman (reissue of 1979 album: Smithsonian Folkways Records, 2001)
  • Back to the Roots (Wolf, 2001)
  • Roamin' and Ramblin (Earwig, 2008)

FilmEdit

In the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, Edwards recounts stories about Johnson, including his murder.Template:Citation needed

Edwards is the subject of the 2010 award-winning film Honeyboy and the History of the Blues, from Free Range Studios, directed by Scott Taradash. The film features stories of his life from picking cotton as a sharecropper to traveling the world performing his music. Artists who appear in the film include Keith Richards, Robert Cray, Joe Perry, Lucinda Williams, B. B. King, Big Joe Williams, and Ace Atkins.Template:Citation needed

Edwards appeared in the 2007 film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and honorsEdit

  • 1996: Induction into the Blues Hall of Fame<ref name="allaboutjazz"/>
  • 1998: Keeping the Blues Alive Award in literature, for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing<ref name="blues">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See alsoEdit

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