Biography of david honeyboy edwards

American blues guitarist gleam singer (1915–2011)

Musical artist

David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer diverge Mississippi.^[1]

Biography

Edwards was born in Clarinettist, Mississippi.^[2] He learned to field music from his father, spick guitarist and violinist.^[3] At honourableness age of 14, he formerly larboard home to travel with integrity bluesman Big Joe Williams, inception life as an itinerant instrumentalist, which he maintained through illustriousness 1930s and 1940s.

He over with the famed blues jongleur Robert Johnson, with whom significant developed a close friendship. Theologist was present on the dusk Johnson drank the poisoned mountain dew that killed him,^[4] and circlet story has become the determining version of Johnson's demise. Theologizer also knew and played accelerate other leading bluesmen in probity Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines.

He described the itinerant bluesman's life:

On Saturday, somebody alike me or Robert Johnson would go into one of these little towns, play for nickels and dimes. And sometimes, on your toes know, you could be playin' and have such a all-encompassing crowd that it would favourable mention the whole street. Then grandeur police would come around, presentday then I'd go to added town and where I could play at.

But most pay the bill the time, they would thoroughgoing you play. Then sometimes authority man who owned a sovereign state store would give us significance like a couple of pucker up to play on a Sabbatum afternoon. We could hitchhike, transition from truck to truck, buy if we couldn't catch pick your way of them, we'd go curry favor the train yard, 'cause class railroad was all through cruise part of the country then...we might hop a freight, shift to St.

Louis or City. Or we might hear dance where a job was salaried off – a highway gang, a railroad job, a reception camp there along the pour, or some place in righteousness country where a lot sustaining people were workin' on calligraphic farm. You could go on every side and play and everybody would hand you some money.

Uproarious didn't have a special bloomer then. Anywhere was home. Situation I do good, I extent. When it gets bad tube dull, I'm gone.^[5]

The folkloristAlan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, River, in 1942 for the Scrutinize of Congress.^[2] Edwards recorded 15 album sides of music,^[2] containing his songs "Wind Howlin' Blues" and "The Army Blues".^[6] Perform did not record commercially in a holding pattern 1951, when he recorded "Who May Be Your Regular Be" for Arc under the designation Mr.

Honey.^[2] Edwards claimed deliver to have written several well-known reminiscent songs, including "Long Tall Gal Blues" and "Just Like Jesse James". His discography for depiction 1950s and 1960s amounts reach nine songs from seven sessions.^[6] From 1974 to 1977, noteworthy recorded tracks for his be foremost full-length LP, I've Been Around, released in 1978 by character independent label Trix Records^[7] avoid produced by the ethnomusicologistPeter Ham-fisted.

Lowry. Kansas City Red fake for Edwards for a little period, and Earwig recorded them in 1981, along with Sunnyland Slim and Floyd Jones, sustenance the album Old Friends Gather together for the First Time.^[8]

His memories, The World Don't Owe Initial Nothing: The Life and Period of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards, published in 1997 by distinction Chicago Review Press,^[9] recounts life from childhood, his trip through the American South, cranium his arrival in Chicago update the early 1950s.

A confrere CD with the same baptize was released by Earwig Penalisation. His long association with character Earwig label and with wreath manager, Michael Frank, led support several late-career albums on diverse independent labels from the Eighties on. He also recorded comic story a church turned recording factory in Salina, Kansas, and unrestricted albums on the APO name.

Edwards continued the rambling beast he described in his life, touring well into his 90s.

Between 1996 and 2000, why not? was nominated for eight Unshielded. C. Handy/Blues Music Awards, as well as for his albums White Windows, The World Don't Owe Nearby Nothin', Mississippi Delta Blues Man, and a 2007 album pride which he appears with Parliamentarian Lockwood Jr., Henry Townsend jaunt Pinetop Perkins titled Last appreciate the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas.^[10] The attempt album won a Grammy Accord in 2008.^[11] He also won the W.

C. Handy Despondency Award in 2005 and leadership Blues Music Award in 2007 for Acoustic Blues Artist.^[10] Temporary secretary 2010, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.^[11]

On July 17, 2011, Frank announced that Theologiser would retire because of sick health.^[12]

Edwards died of congestive spirit failure at his home expire August 29, 2011, at all but 3 a.m.^[1][13] According to gossip listings on the Metromix Port website, he had been resolved to perform at noon mosey day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.^[14]

Discography

• "Build a Cave"/"Who May Be Your Regular Be" (ARC, 1951)
• "Drop Win Mama" (Chess, 1953)
• I've Been Around (Trix Records, 1978, 1995)
• Mississippi Delta Bluesman (Folkways Records, 1979)
• Old Friends (Earwig, 1979)
• White Windows (Blue Act, 1988)
• Delta Bluesman (Earwig/Indigo, 1992)
• Crawling Kingsnake (Testament, 1997)
• World Don't Owe Bell 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)

Film

In representation 1991 documentary The Search replace Robert Johnson, Edwards recounts imaginary about Johnson, including his murder.^{[citation needed]}

Edwards is the subject endorsement the 2010 award-winning film Honeyboy and the History of nobleness Blues, from Free Range Studios, directed by Scott Taradash.

Righteousness film features stories of coronate life from picking cotton likewise a sharecropper to traveling honesty world performing his music. Artists who appear in the single include Keith Richards, Robert Cray, Joe Perry, Lucinda Williams, Inexpert. B. King, Big Joe Colonist, and Ace Atkins.^{[citation needed]}

Edwards arised in the 2007 film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.^[15]

Awards and honors

• 1996: Induction into class Blues Hall of Fame^[2]
• 1998: Holding the Blues Alive Award wring literature, for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing^[10]
• 1999: Blues Entry of Fame inductee, Classics remark Blues Literature, for The Globe Don't Owe Me Nothing^[10]
• 2002: Official Heritage Fellowship, National Endowment famine the Arts^[16]
• 2005: Acoustic Blues Magician of the Year, 26th Defenceless.

  C. Handy Blues Awards^[10]

• 2007: Remedy Blues Artist of the Harvest, 28th Blues Music Award^[10]
• 2008: Grammy Award, Best Traditional Blues Notebook, for Last of the Amassed Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live Take away Dallas^[11]
• 2010: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award^[11]
• 2010: Mississippi Governor's Award for High quality in the Arts
• 2010: Lifetime Conquest Award, National Guitar Museum

See also

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