David %22Honeyboy%22 Edwards


David Honeyboy Edwards was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South.

Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi. At the age of 14, he left home to travel with bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained throughout 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, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnsons 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 bluesmans life

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