'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all
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'Honeyboy' Edwards, Delta bluesman, outlasts them all |
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Posts: 223 (05/10/08 17:11:47) |
Last Edited By: djynx 05/13/08 11:11:58.
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Art Phelps |
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Posts: 66 (05/11/08 09:46:17) |
Strange the article doesn't mention that Honeyboy Edwards was a intimate witness to Robert Johnson's death. It's probably the thing he's most
famous for, interviewed by John Hammond for his In Search of Robert Johnson, and Peter Meyer in Can't You Hear The Wind Howl.
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Posts: 224 (05/12/08 06:18:18) |
What does he say about RJ's death? I saw Clapton mention on youtube, that RJ was on all fours barking like a dog when he died.
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Posts: 67 (05/12/08 13:13:49) |
djynx wrote: It's worth getting or borrowing those two DVDs to get the whole story. As I recall, Johnson was given an open bottle of whiskey before his performance. He did a short set and had to stop. Honeyboy tried to get him to complete his set but Johnson was retching and sick. They moved him to a near-by cabin and he died in terrible pain by morning. Legend has it that the owner of the juke joint was Johnson's murderer. The Hammond video has an interveiw with a man who talked to the killer in the 1960s and he experssed regret. The murderer was never brought up on any charges and the case, like Lenny Breau's murder, remains technically unsolved. |
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Posts: 225 (05/12/08 14:10:06) |
What an awful way to go. Hard times this life is.
What's the story with Lenny Breau? I havn't checked him out yet...jazz? |
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Posts: 304 (05/12/08 17:06:47) |
One of the books I pick up frequently to read a few pages is Honeyboy"s autobiography - The World Don't Owe Me Nothing. I am pretty sure you can get
it at www.earwigmusic.com. I remember that you could get a signed copy there, too. I got mine at one of his gigs,
when Honeyboy was a spry 89, doing 2 sets with a shot and some beers in between.
dw Another such book is Van Ronk's (and Elijah Wald's) Mayor of Macdougal Street |
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Posts: 32 (05/13/08 02:25:50) |
Here he is in Manchester Last year
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Posts: 68 (05/13/08 16:27:14) |
djynx wrote: Lenny Breau was the inspiration for Chet Atkins' memorable quote: "I thought I was the greatest guitar player in the world and when I found out I wasn't I was too rich to care." Breau started his professional career as a guitar player at the age of 3 on his parents television program. To catagorize Breau as a Jazz guitar player is like catagorizing Dylan a singer/songwriter: technically correct more or less. He had amazing talent and he backed it up by dropping out of school at the age of 14 and doing nothing but play guiar, taking heroin to relax. This was the start of the problem. His daughter, Emily Hughes, produced and directed what may be the best video bio on a musician made so far: The Genius of Lenny Breau. It starts with the failed police investigation into his 1984 murder in Los Angeles. His then wife, Jewel, is generally believed to have murdered him not without motive. She has never been charged. At the same time, he was one of those geniuses whose bad behavior was mitigated by the incredible skill he brought to his instrument. He played guitar professionally for 41 of his 44 years. In a century filled with brilliant guitar players, Lenny Breau may have been the most versatile but since his murder he's nearlly forgotten. Lenny Breau's arrangement of Elizabeth Cotten's Freight Train can completely rearrange one's understanding of that familiar beginner's song. Several years ago, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine published a lesson based on it including the original Breau recording on the CD that accompanies the magazine. |
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Posts: 117 (05/13/08 22:58:40) |
"He played guitar professionally for 41 of his 44 years."
He played professional guitar at the age of four? Jack |
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Posts: 70 (05/14/08 07:42:09) |
JCook1 wrote: He was actually 3 when he started playing guitar professionally on his parents' TV show in Canada. I believe the clips are on YouTube. |
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Posts: 227 (05/14/08 09:05:03) |
Art Phelps wrote:Hence the heroine problem. |
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Posts: 635 (07/11/08 15:43:28) |
djynx wrote: Nobody in the history of music is more overrated than Eric Clapton. The fact is he was meowing like a cat.
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Posts: 3 (07/12/08 11:20:34) |
djynx wrote: Just like Penelope Pitstop Really though, Honeyboy is a true hero to us all.
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Posts: 5 (07/12/08 12:29:54) |
lol @ Will on Clapton!
I've heard differing reports by Honeyboy of Robert's death, I forget where (though i'll try sort this out and post my evidence) and it's never to dissimilar, just differences of time taken to die and what not. That being said, I can't remember much beyond yesterday so i'll bet at the age of 93 its hard to remember what happened all those decades ago. A real legend though, nae a blues hero you could say! Glad to see Lenny Breau being brought up here as well, another absolute legend, man could that cat play and it's a shame he left us so early. RIP the both of them. Jack |
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