Honeyboy : the history of the blues

Honeyboy The history of the blues

DVD - 2010

A legendary musician, and a performer at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, David 'Honeyboy' Edwards was born on a plantation, hopped trains playing guitar around the country at age 16, and became an early pioneer of the musical phenomenon known as the blues. Featuring interviews with Edwards, B.B. King, and other Blues greats, presented here is a biographical journey that is as much the story of the man as it is about the music that he helped to create.

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Subjects
Edwards, Honeyboy.
Blues musicians > Biography.
Blues (Music)
Biographical films.
Published
Toronto, Canada : Sky Merchants c2010.
Language
English
Other Authors
Scott Taradash (-), Honeyboy Edwards
Item Description
Title from container.
Originally produced in 2008.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Photography, Eric C. Kay ; editor, Scott L. Taradash.
ISBN
9780986627736
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born in Shaw, MS, in 1915 and has been playing the blues since he was 13. He knew Charley Patton and Robert Johnson-in fact, he was present the evening Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that took his life-and remains a living link to the roots of the American blues. Recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1942, Edwards performed at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. He still performs up to 100 concerts per year. Filmmaker Taradash's moving portrait of the artist and the milieu in which he-and the blues-developed features interviews with Edwards and his peers, for example, BB King and Willie Foster. This beautiful film is a must-see biography of an extraordinary musician, his life in the mid-20th-century South, and his migration to the urban north. Part of Martin Scorsese's 2003 PBS blues series, Honeyboy is highly recommended for all audiences.-Bill Baars, Lake Oswego P.L., OR (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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