| LC control no. | n 86857363 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Edwards, Honeyboy |
| Variant(s) | Edwards, David, 1915-2011 Edwards, David Honeyboy Honey Eddie Mr. Honey |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1915-06-28 |
| Death date | 2011-08-29 |
| Place of birth | Shaw (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | Artist Records (Houston, Tex.) |
| Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Musicians Singers Guitarists Gamblers |
| Found in | Old friends, together for the first time [SR] p1981: container (Honeyboy Edwards, vocals, guitar, harmonica) Walking blues [SR] p1979 (a.e.) container (David Edwards, vocal and guitar) program notes (b. 4/28/15) Peterson, M.H. African portraits [SR] p1995: container (David "Honeyboy" Edwards, blues singer) Southern, E. Bio. dict. of Afro-Amer. and African musicians (Edwards, David "Honeyboy"; b. June 28, 1915, Shaw, Miss.; bluesman) Harris, S. Blues who's who (Edwards, David "Honeyboy"; aka Honey Eddie, Mr. Honey; b. June 28, 1915, Shaw (Sunflower Co.), MS) New York times WWW site, Aug. 30, 2011 (in obituary published Aug. 29: David Honeyboy Edwards; b. David Edwards, June 28, 1915, Shaw, Miss.; his parents, who worked as sharecroppers, gave him the nickname Honey, which later became Honeyboy; d. Monday [Aug. 29, 2011], Chicago, aged 96; believed to have been the oldest surviving member of the first generation of Delta blues singers) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (David Edwards; blues musician / singer, guitarist; born 28 June 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, United States; was called "BHoney" Band "BHoneyboy" (Bas a toddler, and the name stuck; left school at age twelve; travelled throughout the Delta and frequently went to New Orleans; Edwards traveled throughout the Delta and frequently went to New Orleans, along the way he learned to roll dice, a skill that provided him with as much money as his music did; in 1942 the folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Honeyboy Edwards for the Library of Congress; recorded four songs for Artist Records in Houston in 1951; he was invited to play in Vienna and flew to Europe for the first time in 1968; when he returned he lost his job as a security guard and went back to playing his guitar full time; died 29 August 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) African American National Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Edwards, Honeyboy; David Edwards; blues musician, singer, guitarist; born 28 June 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, United States; rose to fame with songs like Terraplane Blues; played with artists such as Big Walter Horton, Son House, Willie Brown, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson; recorded songs by folklorist Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, including Stagolee, Just a Spoonful, and Worried Life Blues (1942); recorded four songs for Artist Records in Houston, including, Build Myself a Cave and Who May Your Regular Be (1951); died 29 August 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 79100108 |
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