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Mississippi Delta Bluesman
David Honeyboy Edwards
Mississippi Delta Bluesman
Genres: Blues, Pop
 
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David "Honeyboy" Edwards embodies the continuity from blues' Mississippi Delta roots to electric Chicago blues. Honeyboy's string-snapping guitar riffs and soulful voice harken back to this friends and teachers Charley Pat...  more »

     
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All Artists: David Honeyboy Edwards
Title: Mississippi Delta Bluesman
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 1/23/2001
Genres: Blues, Pop
Styles: Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093074013229

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David "Honeyboy" Edwards embodies the continuity from blues' Mississippi Delta roots to electric Chicago blues. Honeyboy's string-snapping guitar riffs and soulful voice harken back to this friends and teachers Charley Patton, Big Joe Williams, Tommy Johnson, and Robert Johnson, who first forged the blues in Delta jooks and at country suppers during the Depression. Edwards crisscrossed the South in the company of such blues giants as Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Little Walter Jacobs. He settled in Chicago, where a post-WWII electric blues boom set the pattern for modern rock and roll. This recording captures him in a relaxed, unplugged, solo moment. Deep Delta blues from Robert Johnson's sidekick, whose searing vocals and stinging guitar bridge pre-war and post-war blues. Reissue of Folkways 3539.44 minutes, 26-page booklet.

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CD Reviews

Delta Blues with lots of feeling!
SIMON AGUILAR-GARCIA | Seattle, Wa. USA | 07/31/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Honeyboy delivers the real deal from someone who has spent time with the originators like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. Makes you feel like you are in a back porch some where in the south! Play him often on The Crazy Coyote Blues and Jazz Power Show at 1490 KOTY in southcentral Wa. state."
Blast From the Past: Great Blues from HoneyBoy
Anton | New York City, NY USA | 08/02/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This dynamite CD is actually a reissue of the vinyl LP put out in 1979 by Folkways in NYC. I brought HoneyBoy Edwards to New York several times in the 1970s. Verna Gillis of Soundscape picked him up & waxed this solo session for Folkways (Moe Asch). The virtue of a simple, clean "back porch" recording came from her no-frills production: She put HoneyBoy in front of a couple of good mikes and this is the result! The late Bob Palmer wrote the notes. The original cover was a photo taken by "yours truly" of HoneyBoy playing at the "Foghat Tribute to the Blues" concert, but this reissue has replaced it with new "art." Judging from the samples, the sound transfer is fine! This is the FIRST HoneyBoy set to buy. Then find his 1940s session, '50s singles and the LP on Wolf (Austria) and you will have all that I recall existed when I decided to find him and bring him to NYC in 1976."
FU***** AMAZING
Matt | New Jersey | 04/06/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"THIS IS THE REAL DEAL DELTA BLUES FROM A MAN WHO IS NOTHING SHORT OF A MUSICAL GOD. BUY THIS ALBUM AS SOON AS YOU CAN, GRAB A TALL BOY, AND SIT OUTSIDE ON A NICE SUMMER NIGHT AND BLAST SOME HONEYBOY EDWARDS. IT WILL SOON BE AN AMAZING NIGHT TO REMEMBER. ALSO RECOMENDED- GWAR (PRE SCHOOL PROSTITUTE)"