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David "Honeyboy" Edwards (born June 28 1915, Shaw, Mississippi, United States ^[1]) is a Grammy Award-winning Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South. As of August, 2009, Honeyboy Edwards, at age 94, and his close friend, Pinetop Perkins (age 96) are the oldest and arguably, the last Delta blues players still touring the United States remaining from the last century.

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Career

Edwards was a friend to the legendary musician Robert Johnson and claims he was present on the fateful night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that took his life. Even though Johnson is usually credited with writing "Sweet Home Chicago," Honeyboy's website claims that it was Honeyboy who wrote the famous blues song. Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942 for the Library of Congress. Edwards recorded a total of fifteen LP album sides of music. The songs included "Wind Howlin' Blues" and "The Army Blues". ^[2] He did not record again commercially until 1951, when he recorded "Who May Your Regular Be" for Arc Records under the name of Mr Honey.

Edwards is still touring the country performing, and is the author of one book, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin , published in 1997 by Chicago Review Press. The book recounts his life from childhood, his journeys through the South and his arrival in Chicago in the early 1950s. A companion CD by the same title was released by Earwig Records shortly afterwards. He has also recorded at a church-turned-studio in Salina, Kansas and released albums on the APO record label. Edwards has written several well-known blues songs including "Long Tall Woman Blues" and "Just Like Jesse James". His discography for the 1950s and 1960s amounts to nine songs from seven sessions.

Edwards is one of the last original delta blues guitarists still performing. In October 2004, the last four original delta blues musicians gathered together in Dallas for a once-in-a-lifetime concert. The line-up consisted of: Honeyboy Edwards, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend, and Robert Lockwood, Jr. But two years later in 2006, Townsend died (aged 96) and Lockwood died (aged 91). Pinetop Perkins still continues to tour, mainly in the USA.

Edwards still tours, performing up to 100 concerts a year.

Film

Edwards appeared as himself in the 2007 film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story .

Awards

1996: Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
2005: Acoustic Blues-Artist of the Year (26th W.C. Handy Blues Awards)
2007: Acoustic Artist of the Year (The Blues Music Awards)

His albums, White Windows , ''The World Don't Owe Me Nothin, Mississippi Delta Blues Man, and a recent album in which he appears with Robert Lockwood, Jr., Henry Townsend and Pinetop Perkins, Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas'' ^[3], were all nominated for the W. C. Handy Award. The latter album was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008, and later won the award.