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Topic: 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - With his 93rd birthday a month away, David
"Honeyboy" Edwards admits it's getting hard to walk long distances.

Fortunately for the man believed to be the oldest surviving Delta
bluesman, fans and admirers never let him walk more than a few feet at
a time. Every few steps, someone wants to shake his hand, offer a gift
or share news of common friends.

"It's like this everywhere we go," Edwards' manager, Michael Frank,
said during the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation ceremony Friday to
honor the Shaw native. "He can't walk through a crowded room."

Edwards has a legacy that almost no living musician can match, and as
the last Delta bluesman still standing he has found himself in demand.
In the past year alone, he has released a new album, won Grammy and
Handy Awards, appeared in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," and done
interviews for three documentaries due out in 2009 and 2010."

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  • Registered: 2008-02-14
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Re: 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all

I could just KICK myself for NOT KNOWING that he was performing in San Diego in February, until THE DAY AFTER it happened.  Darn.  However, I am tickled beyond words that I will be seeing some of his peers this weekend - Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, and Willie "Big Eyes Smith".  Just GOTTA see 'em while they're here.  Gotta. 

Here's a little taste of Honey for y'all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgg_9TmI-w  (shot earlier this year)

smile  Libby  smile

I know that Joe could play one of those kid's guitars with the plastic strings and make it sound good-
Bill S.
  • From: Edgewater, FL
  • Registered: 2007-12-08
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Re: 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all

Willy Mae was Honeyboy's first cousin.

Love in Vain
Robert Johnson 

Uh Oh the hair is up on my neck and arms.  Not again...

Rock On & Keep the FAITH
             It is
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  • Registered: 2008-02-14
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Re: 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all

Honeboy is playing the Leicester City Blues Festival for those interested in the UK.

Details can be found here - line up looks good:

www.leicesterbluesfestival.com/

"The recently formed Edinburgh Blues Club has identified an appetite for the personal communication between musicians and audience that the blues long ago perfected." The Herald Newspaper (Scotland)
http://www.edinburgh-blues.uk
  • From: Edgewater, FL
  • Registered: 2007-12-08
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Re: 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all

That looks purty good...

Rock On & Keep the FAITH
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