The ‘Last Great Delta Bluesman’ Dead at 96
The last survivor of the original Mississippi Delta bluesmen has died at the age of 96. David “Honeyboy” Edwards, whose sharecropper parents taught him the guitar as a child, played with all the genre’s big names during his 80-year career, including “King of the Delta Blues” Robert Johnson, the New…
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The ‘Last Great Delta Bluesman’ Dead at 96
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