David Honeyboy Edwards — at age 94 and 3/4s one of very few survivors of the original Delta blues generation — gigged at B.B. King’s Blues Club on NYC’s 42nd St. last week. He held the stage with little help from his two sidemen for nearly an hour, after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the […]
NYC blues extra: Grammy winner Honeyboy Edwards @ BB King’s
City Arts, for space reasons, left off the last graph I’d submitted: True blue fans will flock to hear David “Honeyboy” Edwards, running buddy of legendary Robert Johnson and recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, at B.B. King’s March 11. Edwards is 95, a lifetime achievement for any blues musician, and according to this […]