Bluesman David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies

Blues singer-guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who traveled and carried out using the legendary Robert Manley and recorded superbly in the own right across eight decades, died August. 29 in Chicago. He was 96. Charged as "all of the the truly amazing Mississippi Delta bluesmen," Edwards had continued to be active, and made an appearance on some dates of the Manley 100th birthday commemorative tour mounted captured. But failing health forced him to announce his retirement in This summer. He was created June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Miss., and was referred to as "Honey" from childhood. His sharecropping parents were both guitarists. He started the existence of the itinerant music performer at age 17, when he hoboed with Large Joe Williams. After many years playing in Memphis, Edwards met Robert Manley in Greenwood, Miss., in 1937. He traveled using the blues titan before the evening Manley was fatally poisoned in August 1938 in a Greenwood juke joint. Edwards was recorded by Alan Lomax for that Library of Congress in 1942. He soon became a member of harmonica virtuoso Little Walter Jacobs, and also the two traveled to Chicago together in 1945. He'd recover towards the south for quite some time, recording in Houston and (for Mike Phillips at Sun) in Memphis. After cutting some sides for Chess Records that went unreleased for many years, Edwards settled in Chicago permanently in 1956. Carrying out regularly within the Windy City's clubs, he are making money in the '60s blues boom, recording for Milestone, Adelphi, Testament, Trix and Folkways in 1969 he made an appearance on Fleetwood Mac's super session "Blues Jam in Chicago." Handled by Earwig Records owner Michael Frank, Edwards recorded several highly recognized albums for that Chicago blues label in the late 1980s on. Edwards was awarded with a Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1996. His autobiography "The Planet Don't Owe Me Nothin'" was released in 1997. He received a National Heritage Fellowship Award in the National Endowment for that Arts in 2002. He won a 2007 Grammy Award for "Last from the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen - Reside in Dallas," a collaboration using the late Pinetop Perkins, Robert Junior. Lockwood and Henry Townshend, in addition to a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award this year. A type of Zelig from the blues, Edwards was frequently questioned about his connection to Manley along with other legendary entertainers, and reminisced in a number of documentaries, including their own feature "Honeyboy" (2004). Younger crowd made an appearance in Mike Kasdan's 2007 comedy "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com