Edwards, David "honeyboy"

Delta Bluesman

This is a wonderful record... The first 14 cuts are from 1942 Library of Congress recordings... Edwards' playing is as Delta blues as it gets... Edwards worked with (Big Joe Williams and) other Delta greats such as Tommy McClennan, Charley Patton... Big Walter Horton, Robert Johnson, and Little Walter. His playing shows influences from all these men... There are seven songs on the CD recorded in 1991 with Carey Bell, Sunnyland Slim, Aron Burton, and Robert Plunkett, that show Edwards can still lay down some mean blues... If you have any interest in Mississippi blues, you've got to have this album

Price

Genre

Blues

Format

CD - 1 disk

Release date

01-01-2003

Label

Earwig

Item-nr

366873

EAN

0739788492225

Availability

In stock

TRACKS

Disk 1

1. ALAN LOMAX INTRODUCES DAVID EDWARDS
2. ROAMIN' AND RAMBLIN' BLUES
3. I'M FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
4. YOU GOT TO ROLL (ACCAPELLA)
5. WATER COAST BLUES
6. STAGOLEE
7. JUST A SPOONFUL
8. SPREAD MY RAINCOAT DOWN
9. HELLATAKIN' BLUES
10. WIND HOWLIN' BLUES
11. WORRIED LIFE BLUES
12. TEAR IT DOWN RAG
13. THE ARMY BLUES
14. THEY CALLED IT BIG KATE
15. BIG KATIE ALLEN
16. BLACK CAT
17. I MET PEETIE WHEATSTRAW IN '39
18. NUMBER 12 AT THE STATION
19. WHEN I CAME TO MEMPHIS
20. ROCKS IN MY PILLOW
21. WE USED TO SING THAT WHEN I WAS A KID
22. DECORATION DAY
23. WHO MAY YOUR REGULAR BE
24. I STUDIED UP THAT SONG MYSELF
25. EYES FULL OF TEARS
26. BAD WHISKEY AND COCAINE