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Article: 'Honeyboy' Edwards is still feeling the blues at age 90.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2006
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Byline: Carolyn Lamberson The Register-Guard
David "Honeyboy" Edwards is a blues elder.
As one of the few remaining original practitioners of acoustic Mississippi Delta blues, the 90-year-old Edwards is a bridge to the past.
At 14, he hit the road with Big Joe Williams. In the '30s, he played Delta juke joints with a number of contemporaries - Son House, Big Walter Horton, Homesick James and the legendary Robert Johnson.
How well did he know Johnson? As he told interviewer Tony Bonyata in 2002, he heard the story about Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads - from Johnson himself. He also can offer an eyewitness ...