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David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South. ==Life and career== Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi.〔(Edwards biographical page ), allaboutjazz.com; accessed February 2008.〕 Edwards was 14 years old when he left home to travel with blues man Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician which he led throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with famed blues musician Robert Johnson with whom he developed a close friendship. Honeyboy was present on the night Johnson drank poisoned whiskey which killed him,〔Guralnick, Peter. ''Searching for Robert Johnson'', 1989.〕 and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. As well as Johnson, Edwards knew and played with many of the leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, which included Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines. He described the itinerant bluesman's life: Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942 for the Library of Congress.〔 Edwards recorded 15 album sides of music.〔 The songs included "Wind Howlin' Blues" and "The Army Blues". He did not record commercially until 1951, when he recorded "Who May Be Your Regular Be" for Arc under the name of Mr Honey.〔 Edwards claims to have written several well-known blues songs including "Long Tall Woman Blues" and "Just Like Jesse James." His discography for the 1950s and 1960s amounts to nine songs from seven sessions.〔 From 1974 to 1977, he recorded material for his first full-length LP, ''I've Been Around'', released in 1978 on the independent Trix Records label by producer/ethnomusicologist Peter B. Lowry. Kansas City Red played for him for a brief period and Earwig recorded them in 1981 along with Sunnyland Slim and Floyd Jones on the album, "Old Friends Together for the First Times". His autobiography is entitled ''The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards''. Published in 1997 by the ''Chicago Review Press'', the narrative recounts his life from childhood, his travels through the American South, and his arrival in Chicago in the early 1950s. A companion CD by the same title was released by Earwig Music shortly afterwards. His long association with the Earwig label and manager Michael Frank spawned many late career albums on a variety of independent labels from the 1980s on. He has also recorded at a Church turned-recording studio in Salina, Kansas and released albums on the APO record label Edwards continued the rambling life he describes in his autobiography as he still toured the world well into his 90s. On July 17, 2011 his manager Michael Frank announced that Edwards would be retiring due to ongoing health issues.〔Matt Marshall. ("David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Retires". ''American Blues Scene''. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011. )〕 On August 29, 2011 Edwards died at his home, of congestive heart failure, at approx. 3 a.m.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.davidhoneyboyedwards.com/ )〕 According to events listings on the Metromix Chicago website, Edwards had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Events for August 29, 2011 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David "Honeyboy" Edwards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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