Original Blues Legend David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Live at 'Ain't Nothin' But', London, 1994

            Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi, in 1915. He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist. At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through 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 Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines.

Edwards' first recording was for Alan Lomax in 1942 and his final album, 'Roamin' And Ramblin'' was released in 2008.

Edwards died of congestive heart failure at his home on 29 August 2011, at about 3 a.m.. According to events listings on the Metromix Chicago website, he had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.

For more information on this original and prolific blues legend, read his autobiography entitled 'The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards' published in 1997. There is also much information available on the internet.

This image was taken on Ilford HP4 black and white 35mm film stock and scanned to digital. The camera was the Nikon 801s.

Taken on: September 8, 2024

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