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| June 28, 2016
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| Dear Connecticut Blues Society,
We're still keeping the vibes flowing for our friend Jim Glass. Reports are
that he has been moved to hospice for extra care with hopes that he can begin
some type of rehab. Keep doing what you do to send him your love.
Gigs are a tad skimpy this week as we endure a huge heat wave. Still lots of
our favorites still out there so go see 'em.
I've been getting inquiries about Showdown which is very encouraging. You can
go to www.phoenixblues.org and use last year's app form. We'll accept that
until I can get the site updated. Buzz's passing is still being felt. Let's
make this one the best one yet. They're all great but lets raise the bar.
You guys please feel free to send me your gig info for the week and I'll be
happy to post, We have almost 2,000 subscribers so someone will read it
(hopefully).
Stay cool, stay hydrated, stay safe and have a good week!
Sincerely, Jim Crawford
Phoenix Blues Society |
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| | David"Honeyboy" Edwards busking on the streets of Memphis, circa 1942. He
would have celebrated his 101st birthday today. |
Honeyboy
David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi. At the age of 17, he
left home to travel with bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an
itinerant musician, which he maintained throughout the 1930s and 1940s. "He was
about 36 years old I was 17. We went to New Orleans. Joe wanted to fight me
every night, so one morning when Joe was drunk in the bed, I slipped off and
left him to go back to Greenwood. I was coming across a bridge where people
were catching crabs in a net. They said, 'Boy can you play that guitar?' I
started playing on the guitar, and they started chucking nickels and dimes at
me. I said, 'I think I can make it without Joe.' I come to Memphis, and I
started working with the Memphis Jug Band. He performed with the famed blues
musician Robert Johnson, with whom he developed a close friendship." My first
time meeting Robert, I was 20 years old, in 1935. I had started playing pretty
good with the Memphis Jug Band. I tried to catch a ride back to Greenwood. I
stopped in Lake Carmen and went into a country store. Two young boys my age
were sitting around talking. They said Robert and Son House are playing across
the field over there, go listen. I said, 'I believe I will.'"[Soon afterwards]
he disappeared, left. People were surprised by him coming back and playing in
that style. [Johnson's newfound, much improved technique prompted the legend
that he'd sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his ability.]Me and Robert
played together all of '37 and half of '38. We used to run around in Greenwood,
Mississippi. There were a lot of bootleggers around then, serving whiskey and
gambling in the back [of a local juke joint]. We played music in the
front."Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that
killed him, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's
demise."Robert had been playing for [the juke joint owner] for about a year.
What happened was Robert started going with his wife. Greenwood was a small
farming town, and if it rained in the country everybody would go into town.
They'd see Robert and her. [The owner] didn't want to lose his woman, so he got
him out of the way. She was a pretty woman. Her hair hung down to there
[pointing to his waist.]When I got there about 11 o'clock, he was getting sick.
He tried to play for a while, then he said, 'I don't feel good, I'm kind of
sick.' I went home that Sunday morning, and I thought he'd be all right.
Tuesday, I went over to where he lived, and he was crawling around, his stomach
all upset, people giving him soda water and different stuff to try to make him
heave that stuff up. He passed August 16, 1938. They buried him the same day
because he didn't have no insurance.Robert was crazy about whiskey and women,
but he was the easiest musician I met playing the blues. I never heard him cuss
or holler or want to fight like a lot of musicians. He was a nice guy. If he'd
left that man's wife alone, he'd probably have lived longer."Edwards also knew
and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including
Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines. He described the itinerant
bluesman's life:"On Saturday, somebody like me or Robert Johnson would go into
one of these little towns, play for nickels and dimes. And sometimes, you know,
you could be playin' and have such a big crowd that it would block the whole
street. Then the police would come around, and then I'd go to another town and
where I could play at. But most of the time, they would let you play. Then
sometimes the man who owned a country store would give us something like a
couple of dollars to play on a Saturday afternoon. We could hitchhike, transfer
from truck to truck, or if we couldn't catch one of them, we'd go to the train
yard, 'cause the railroad was all through that part of the country then...we
might hop a freight, go to St. Louis or Chicago. Or we might hear about where a
job was paying off - a highway crew, a railroad job, a levee camp there along
the river, or some place in the country where a lot of people were workin' on a
farm. You could go there and play and everybody would hand you some money. I
didn't have a special place then. Anywhere was home. Where I do good, I stay.
When it gets bad and dull, I'm gone."The folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards
in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1942 for the Library of Congress.[1] Edwards
recorded 15 album sides of music,[1] including his songs "Wind Howlin' Blues"
and "The Army Blues".[4] He did not record commercially until 1951, when he
recorded "Who May Be Your Regular Be" for Arc under the name of Mr. Honey.
Edwards claimed to have written several well-known blues songs, including "Long
Tall Woman Blues" and "Just Like Jesse James." His discography for the 1950s
and 1960s amounts to nine songs from seven sessions. From 1974 to 1977, he
recorded tracks for his first full-length LP, I've Been Around, released in
1978 by the independent Trix Records and produced by the ethnomusicologist
Peter B. Lowry. Kansas City Red played for Edwards for a brief period, and
Earwig recorded them in 1981, along with Sunnyland Slim and Floyd Jones, for
the album "Old Friends Together for the First Time".His autobiography, The
World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy
Edwards, published in 1997 by the Chicago Review Press, recounts his life from
childhood, his travels through the American South, and his arrival in Chicago
in the early 1950s. A companion CD with the same title was released by Earwig
Music. His long association with the Earwig label and with his manager manager,
Michael Frank, led to several late-career albums on various independent labels
from the 1980s on. He also recorded at a church turned recording studio in
Salina, Kansas and released albums on the APO label. Edwards continued the
rambling life he described in his autobiography, touring well into his 90s.On
July 17, 2011, his manager, Michael Frank, announced that Edwards would be
retiring because of ill health. Edwards died of congestive heart failure at his
home on August 29, 2011, at about 3 a.m. According to events listings on the
Metromix Chicago website, he had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at
the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park. |
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| In This Issue |
| Honeyboy |
| JAMS |
| OUT & ABOUT |
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| Out & AboutTuesday, June 28Hans Olson, 7 p.m. EVERY TUESDAY, The Hall,
Scottsdale Wed., June 29Bad News Blues Band, Every Wed., 9:30 p.m., Chicago
Bar, Tucson Thursday, June 30M&M Duo, 7 p.m., Indigo Crow, Cave Creek Hans
Olson, 6 p.m., Handlebar, Apache Junction Friday, July 1Bad News Blues Band, 9
p.m., Rhythm Room JC & the Juke rockers, 7 p.m., Handlebar, Apache Junction
Hoodoo Casters, Maverick, 9 p.m., Phoenix Sugar Thieves Trio, 8:30 p.m., All
American, Scottsdale Gypsy/Uvon/Ray Ray & Friends, 7 p.m., Art Awakenings
Gallery, Phoenix Blues Review Band, 5 p.m., Red, White & Boom Festival, North
48th St., Phoenix Mojo Rats, 9 p.m., Kimmyz, Glendale Saturday, July 2Rhythm
Room All Stars, 9 p.m., Rhythm Room, Phoenix JC & the Juke rockers, 7:30 p.m.,
Janey's, Cave Creek JPowers Band, NOON, Chaparral Pines, Payson Nina Curri
w/Dan Rutland, 6 p.m., Rare Earth Pizza, Scottsdale Blues Review Band, 8 p.m.,
All American, Scottsdale Sunday, July 3Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys, 9 p.m.,
Rhythm Room, Phoenix Two Flavor Blues, NOON, Copper Star, Phoenix Monday, July
4Hans Olson, 6 p.m., Vito's, Scottsdale Rocket 88s, 6 p.m., Olive Mill, Queen
Creek |
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| Weekly Jams
Sunday
NEW JAM Rocket 88s, 6 p.m., Saint Nick's Tavern, Phoenix
Ray Ray & BluZone, 5 p.m., Wild Willy's, Avondale
R.d. Olson JAM, 2 p.m., Sally's BBQ, Prescott
Bourbon Jack's JAM w/Kody Herring, 6 p.m., ChandlerMONDAY Bam Bam & Badness
Open JAM, 9 p.m., Char's, Phoenix
NEW JAM R.d. Olson Blues Band, 2 p.m., Sally's BBQ, Prescott
TUESDAY Gypsy's Bluesday Night JAM, 7 p.m. Pho Cao, Tempe Bumpin' Bud's 1st &
3rd Tuesdays JAM, 7 p.m., Marc's, Glendale WEDNESDAY NEW JAM, Sea of Love
Band, 7 p.m., The Blooze, Phoenix
Rocket 88s, 7 p.m., Chopper John's, Phoenix Tool Shed JAM Party, 7 p.m., El
Dorado, Scottsdale THURSDAYTool Shed JAM Party, 7 p.m., Steel Horse Saloon,
Phoenix Jolie's Place JAM w/Adrenaline, 8 p.m., Chandler Brad's Place JAM, 7
p.m., Ahwatukee (Every other Week)
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we'll be happy to list your event in our weekly Out & About section of the
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