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Honeyboy Edwards (1915–2011)
"Delta blues" artist David "Honeyboy"--a nickname his sister gave him as a child--Edwards was born in Shaw, MS, in 1915. He taught himself to play the guitar as a boy by listening to such bluesmen as Tommy McClennan and Robert Petway. By age 14 he was playing in "juke joints" in the South with such artists as Big Joe Williams and Yank Rachell. He ...
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Born:in Shaw, Mississippi, USADied:(age 96) in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
(performer: "Gamblin' Man" - as David Honeyboy Edwards) / (writer: "Gamblin' Man" - as David Honeyboy Edwards)
1992
The Search for Robert Johnson
(TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Sweet Home Chicago", "Walking Blues")
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Actor (1 credit)
Actor (1 credit)
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Music department (1 credit)
Music department (1 credit)
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Self (11 credits)
Self (11 credits)
2017
American Epic
(TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self
Self
- Blood and Soil
(2017)
... Self (as David Honeyboy Edwards)
- The Big Bang
(2017)
... Self (as David Honeyboy Edwards)
2016
Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
(TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self
Self
- Going Electric
(2016)
... Self (as David Honeyboy Edwards)
2009
Folk America
(TV Series documentary)
Self
Self
- This Land is Your Land
(2009)
... Self (as David 'Honeyboy' Edwards)
- Birth of a Nation
(2009)
... Self (as David 'Honeyboy' Edwards)
2000
City Confidential
(TV Series documentary)
Self - Musician
Self - Musician
- Greenwood: The Devil and the Delta Blues
(2000)
... Self - Musician
1992
The Search for Robert Johnson
(TV Movie documentary)
Self - Blues Player (as David 'Honeyboy' Edwards)
Self - Blues Player (as David 'Honeyboy' Edwards)
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Archive footage (2 credits)
Archive footage (2 credits)
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Album: "Walking Blues" (Flyright Records). See more »Alternate Names:
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards | David Honeyboy Edwards
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[2008, in an Associated Press interview] Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea, I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock'n'roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere.Trivia:
His nickname Honey-Boy was a term of endearment from his sister, when he was a toddler. See more »Star Sign:
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