RIP, David "Honeyboy" Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the world's oldest first-generation Mississippi Delta bluesman, died in Chicago on Monday. He was 96. Edwards played with everybody: Charlie Patton, Muddy Waters, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Howlin' Wolf. He remained active until earlier this year.

"Blues ain't never going anywhere," Edwards predicted, in an AP interview in 2008. "It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock 'n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere."

A 2007 profile of Edwards frm the London Telegraph is here. Below, he does "Gamblin' Man," and talks some more, from Antoine Fuqua's 2004 music documentary Lightning In A Bottle.

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