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David "Honeyboy" Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

The World Don't Owe Me Nothin'

Born David Edwards June 28, 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, the "Honeyboy" grew up listening to the old long gone blues masters. David "Honeyboy" Edwards taught himself to play the guitar as a youngster. At the age of fourteen David "Honeyboy" Edwards played together with Big Joe Williams. During the 1930s he travelled through the South with other musicians like Tommy McClennan, Robert Johnson, Big Walter Horton, and Yank Rachell. David "Honeyboy" Edwards' first recordings date from 1942. Alan Lomax recorded in all fifteen tunes of David "Honeyboy" Edwards for the Library of Congress. In 1951, David "Honeyboy" Edwards made his first commercial recordings in Houston, Texas. Later in the 1950s David "Honeyboy" Edwards moved to Chicago where he played in blues clubs and in the streets. In the mid-'60s he began to play at blues festivals. He toured Europe and Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1992, he released his album, Delta Bluesman and in 1998 he published his autobiography, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin. Despite his high age, David "Honeyboy" Edwards tours around the world and performs at many festivals. David "Honeyboy" Edwards wrote the blues classic Sweet Home Chicago, one of the most covered songs in blues.

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