Robert Johnson was tight with “Honeyboy” Edwards
By Steve Newton
I’m pretty sure that David “Honeyboy” Edwards was the oldest musician I’ve ever interviewed. He was 87 in March of 2003 when I called him up in Chicago to get the scoop on his early days with Mississippi Delta blues legends like Big Joe Williams, Charlie Patton, and his close friend Robert Johnson.
At one point in the conversation I asked Edwards what he made of the legend that Johnson sold his sold to the devil at the crossroads to become a master bluesman.
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Albert King, 1990
Albert Collins, 1985
Otis Rush, 1997
Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1985
Buddy Guy, 2004
Roy Buchanan, 1986
>B.B. King, 1984
Gary Moore, 1984
Jeff Beck, 2001
Robert Cray, 1996
Jeff Healey, 1988
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 1995
Ellen McIlwaine, 2001
J.J. Cale, March 15,1990John Mayall of the Bluesbreakers, 1988
Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown, 1998
Taj Mahal, 2001
Joe Louis Walker, 1997
Ronnie Earl, 1998
Luther Allison, 1995
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, 1994
Paul Rodgers, 1997
R.L. Burnside, 1999
Walter Trout, 2003
Long John Baldry, 1985
Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers, 1994
Derek Trucks, 1998
Susan Tedeschi, 1998
Jonny Lang, 2003
Charlie Sexton, 2005
Big Dave MacLean, 2003
Colin Linden of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, 2003
Jeff Lang, 1999
Tab Benoit, 1998
Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule, 2004
Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, 2001
David Gogo, 1999
Michael Burks, 2002
Paul Rodgers, 2000
Chris Duarte, 2000
Gerry McAvoy from Rory Gallagher’s Band, 2018
Eric Burdon, 1984
Alvin Youngblood Hart, 2000
Steve Miller, 2022
James Cotton, 2002
Guitar Shorty, 2001
Charlie Musselwhite, 2002
Sue Foley, 1992
Chris Whitley, 1991
J. Geils from the J. Geils Band, 2006Sean Costello, 2006
Derek Trucks of Tedeschi Trucks, 2012
David “Honeyboy” Edwards, 2003
Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton of Arc Angels, 1992
Tommy Shannon of SRV & Double Trouble, 1998
Colin James, 1995
David Lindley, 2002
Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds, 2003
Luther Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars, 2001
Buddy Guy, 1993
Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, 1998
Roy Buchanan, 1988
Randy Hansen, 2001
Davy Knowles of Back Door Slam, 2007
Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule, 1998
Doyle Bramhall II, 2001
Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, 1992
Joe Bonamassa, 2011
Tommy Emmanuel, 1994
Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1990
Robin Trower, 1990
Donald “Duck” Dunn, 1985
Booker T. Jones, 2016
Buddy Guy, 1991
Buddy Miles, 2001
Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, 2016
Sonny Landreth, 2016
…with hundreds more to come
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