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David "Honeyboy" Edwards

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

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

David Edwards

Mr. Honey

(1915-06-28)June 28, 1915
Shaw, Mississippi, U.S.

August 29, 2011(2011-08-29) (aged 96)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Delta blues

  • Musician
  • songwriter

1930s–2011

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"Build a Cave"/"Who May Be Your Regular Be" (ARC, 1951)

"Drop Down Mama" (, 1953)

Chess

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: , 2001)

Smithsonian Folkways Records

Back to the Roots (Wolf, 2001)

Roamin' and Ramblin (Earwig, 2008)

Film[edit]

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


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.


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

1996: Induction into the [2]

Blues Hall of Fame

1998: Keeping the Blues Alive Award in literature, for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing

[10]

1999: Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Classics of Blues Literature, for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing

[10]

2002: , National Endowment for the Arts[16]

National Heritage Fellowship

2005: Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year, 26th [10]

W. C. Handy Blues Awards

2007: Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year, 28th [10]

Blues Music Award

2008: , Best Traditional Blues Album, for Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas[11]

Grammy Award

2010: [11]

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

2010: Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts

2010: Lifetime Achievement Award,

National Guitar Museum

Crossroads Guitar Festival

Dockery Plantation

List of blues musicians

List of Delta blues musicians

Mississippi Blues Trail

Notodden Blues Festival

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