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Honeyboy Edwards
1915-2011
New York Times
Bloomberg News
Honeyboy Edwards
Crawling Kingsnake
Testament Music
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David Honeyboy Edwards was the last link to the incandescent period of blues history when the Mississippi Delta rang with the music of Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson and many more. Honeyboy knew and learned from them all. He was born in Shaw, MS on Highway 61. In 1932 he teamed up with Big Joe Williams and travelled from town to town, playing in the street and at house parties. His travels took him to Memphis where he performed with the Memphis Jug Band, and later to Chicago where he settled. He met and got to know Robert Johnson in 1937 and was with Johnson the following year on the night he died.
In 1964, Big Joe Williams introduced Honeyboy to musicologist/producer Pete Welding who recorded the material for Testament's Crawling Kingsnake CD in Chicago. The recordings were eventually released in 1997 on Testament through HighTone Records.
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