David “Honeyboy” Edwards will appear at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, on Thursday, June 4 at 6:30 p.m. He will be interviewed by blues historians Alphonso Sanders and Michael Frank, and may play a tune or two as well.

The Museum is located at 400 Second Street, downtown Indianola. Honeyboy will be a featured artist during Indianola’s Annual B.B. King Homecoming Festival on Friday June 5.
Gates open at 4:00 p.m. The concert begins at 5:00 p.m.

Honeyboy Edwards at age 93 is the last active blues guitarist from the Mississippi Delta with direct connections to the first generation of recorded blues players. His mentor was Big Joe Williams, an itinerant guitarist best known for playing a nine-string guitar and writing “Baby Please Don't Go”, a song covered by many artists, including Van Morrison.

Honeyboy left home with Big Joe in December 1932 and never looked back, traveling over 13 states until 1956 when he settled with his family in Chicago.

Blues guitarists Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Tommy McClennan, Robert Johnson, and harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson were Honeyboy’s contemporaries, playing in the juke joints and on the streets across the southern states.

In his travels, Honeyboy also met and played with nearly all the musicians of his own and later generations who became legends in the blues pantheon. He was moving around so much over such a wide area that he missed recording, until Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress found him in July 1942.

Since then, Honeyboy has continued to travel worldwide, and has recorded for many record labels. He is renowned for his photographic memory and his vivid, colorful storytelling about all his encounters, and has numerous film and TV documentaries to his credit. He is a fast, dexterous, nimble guitarist who wows audiences with his instrumental technique and deep emotional vocals.

Honeyboy is a winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship Award for outstanding lifetime musical contributions, several Blues Music Awards and numerous other awards and accolades from organizations around the world.

For more information, please contact:

C.Sade Turnipseed
B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
Education & Community Outreach Director
sturnipseed@bbkingmuseum.org
662.887.9539, ext. 222