R.I.P. 'Honeyboy' Edwards

Originally Posted by JaKaacH

A great Bluesman left us yesterday.

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Our organization had the honor and privalege of working with Honeyboy through our Blues education nonprofit that educates young audiences about Blues music www.blueshoeproject.org. We hosted events that were like VH-1 Storyteller featuring Honeyboy, but for K-12 school audiences. Children really appreciated his music and honored him as an American treasure. His stories were so amazing because he went back, almost to the beginning of the genre, talking about Robert Johnson and all his contemporaries and his life as a wondering Bluesman.

We also produced an album with him with recordings from our first education event that featured Honeyboy, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend and Robert Lockwood, Jr. The album won a Grammy Award in 2008 for Best Traditional Blues Album - Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesman - Live in Dallas. If you don't have it, you might consider picking up a copy. All the proceeds go toward our mission.

Thank you for remembering him and paying honor to him.

Blueshoejeff