The Blues has been described in many ways but to Honeyboy Edwards it is ‘a leading thing,’ an irresistible feeling that has called him on – away from the home, away from the comfort, away from the arms of loving women. The Blues has taken him along a path that strangely parallels the development of this haunting music. From sharecropper’s son to itinerant Bluesman, Honeyboy’s life reads like a distillation of classic Blues legends. His good friends and musical partners have included Blues pioneers Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton and Robert Johnson. He saw some of the first Blues musicians in the Delta: Tommy Johnson, Son House and older artists unrecorded and lost to us. He jumped a freight train to play riverboats, juke joints, and good timing houses from the Delta to Texas to Chicago. The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing is 212 pages of the exciting life of David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards, which is also a history of the Blues.
