1915 David Honeyboy Edwards*
1962 Jörg Henneböle (Blue Goerge)*
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David Honeyboy Edwards *28.06.1915
David Honeyboy Edwards (* 28. Juni 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi; † 29. August 2011 in Chicago, Illinois[1]) galt als der letzte noch lebende Vertreter des Delta Blues. Der US-amerikanische Gitarrist war ein Weggefährte Robert Johnsons.
Edwards wuchs in Mississippi in Armut auf und wandte sich schon früh dem Blues zu. Er lernte Big Joe Williams kennen, der ihn unter seine Fittiche nahm. Außerdem traf er auf Charlie Patton und Robert Johnson, mit denen er auch zusammen spielte.
Im Jahr 1942 spielte er erste Plattenaufnahmen für Alan Lomax ein. Anfang der 1950er Jahre machte er (damals unveröffentlicht gebliebene) Aufnahmen für Chess Records. Ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre lebte er in Chicago und spielte Blues mit nahezu jedem, der damals in der Bluesszene Rang und Namen hatte. Kommerzieller Erfolg stellte sich aber erst zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre ein, als Aufnahmen aus den 1950er Jahren von ihm auf einer Bluesanthologie erschienen, die sich recht gut verkaufte. 1972 lernte Honeyboy den Blues-Harp-Spieler Michael Frank kennen, der sein Manager wurde. Es folgten zahlreiche Auftritte des Duos Edwards/Frank bis heute. 1976 entstand die Honeyboy Edwards Blues Band, der es gelang, sich in Chicago einen Namen zu machen. Das Album Old Friends erschien 1979, das Edwards zusammen mit Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Kansas City Red und Floyd Jones aufgenommen hatte.
2003 machte Edwards die "Delta-Blues-Tour" durch Deutschland mit Liz Mandville und Band (Chicago), Lars-Luis Linek (Mundharmonika und Gesang aus Hamburg) und Bertram Scholz (Gitarre und Gesang aus Neustadt in Holstein). 2004 und 2005 absolvierte Edwards zusammen mit Michael Frank und dem Bluesgitarristen Tom Shaka aus Austin, Texas, eine Tournee durch zwölf deutsche Städte.
Er wurde 1996 in die Blues Hall of Fame aufgenommen, 2010 erhielt er den Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Im Jahr 2000 war er als bester akustischer Blueskünstler für den Blues Music Award nominiert. Seine Autobiographie „The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing“ wurde 1999 in die „Blues Hall of Fame (Classics of Blues Literature)“ aufgenommen.
Nach seinem letzten Auftritt im April 2011 ist er nach einer Verschlechterung seines Gesundheitszustandes am 29. August 2011 in seiner Wohnung in Chicago einem Herzversagen erlegen.
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David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South.
Life and career
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi.[1] Edwards was 14 years old when he left home to travel with blues man Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician which he led throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with famed blues musician Robert Johnson with whom he developed a close friendship. Honeyboy was present on the night Johnson drank poisoned whiskey which killed him,[2] and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. As well as Johnson, Edwards knew and played with many of the leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, which included 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.[3]
Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942 for the Library of Congress.[1] Edwards recorded 15 album sides of music.[1] The songs included "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.[1] Edwards claims 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.[4] From 1974 to 1977, he recorded material for a full length LP, I've Been Around, released in 1978 on the independent Trix Records label by producer/ethnomusicologist Peter B. Lowry. Kansas City Red played for him for a brief period and Earwig recorded them in 1981 along with Sunnyland Slim and Floyd Jones on the album, "Old Friends Together for the First Times".[5]
His autobiography is entitled The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards. Published in 1997 by the Chicago Review Press, the narrative recounts his life from childhood, his travels through the American South, and his arrival in Chicago in the early 1950s. A companion CD by the same title was released by Earwig Music shortly afterwards. His long association with the Earwig label and manager Michael Frank spawned many late career albums on a variety of independent labels from the 1980s on. He has also recorded at a Church turned-recording studio in Salina, Kansas and released albums on the APO record label Edwards continued the rambling life he describes in his autobiography as he still toured the world well into his 90s.
On July 17, 2011 his manager Michael Frank announced that Edwards would be retiring due to ongoing health issues.[6]
On August 29, 2011 Edwards died at his home, of congestive heart failure, at approx. 3 a.m.[7] According to events listings on the Metromix Chicago website, Edwards had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.
Life and career
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi.[1] Edwards was 14 years old when he left home to travel with blues man Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician which he led throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with famed blues musician Robert Johnson with whom he developed a close friendship. Honeyboy was present on the night Johnson drank poisoned whiskey which killed him,[2] and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. As well as Johnson, Edwards knew and played with many of the leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, which included 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.[3]
Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Edwards in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942 for the Library of Congress.[1] Edwards recorded 15 album sides of music.[1] The songs included "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.[1] Edwards claims 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.[4] From 1974 to 1977, he recorded material for a full length LP, I've Been Around, released in 1978 on the independent Trix Records label by producer/ethnomusicologist Peter B. Lowry. Kansas City Red played for him for a brief period and Earwig recorded them in 1981 along with Sunnyland Slim and Floyd Jones on the album, "Old Friends Together for the First Times".[5]
His autobiography is entitled The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards. Published in 1997 by the Chicago Review Press, the narrative recounts his life from childhood, his travels through the American South, and his arrival in Chicago in the early 1950s. A companion CD by the same title was released by Earwig Music shortly afterwards. His long association with the Earwig label and manager Michael Frank spawned many late career albums on a variety of independent labels from the 1980s on. He has also recorded at a Church turned-recording studio in Salina, Kansas and released albums on the APO record label Edwards continued the rambling life he describes in his autobiography as he still toured the world well into his 90s.
On July 17, 2011 his manager Michael Frank announced that Edwards would be retiring due to ongoing health issues.[6]
On August 29, 2011 Edwards died at his home, of congestive heart failure, at approx. 3 a.m.[7] According to events listings on the Metromix Chicago website, Edwards had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.
Jörg Henneböle (Blue Goerge) 28.06.1962
Geboren in Mailand/ Italien wuchs Blue George im musikalischen Elternhaus mit Songs von Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry und Adriano Celentano auf.
Im Alter von 15 siedelte er nach Deutschland über und fand schließlich in Köln seine zweite Heimat. Er nutzte jede Gelegenheit, um auf die Bühne zu kommen, nahm Jazz-Unterricht (Axel Zinowski/ Münster, Frank Haunschild/ Köln) und flog für Workshops nach New York.
In den USA entdeckte er seine Leidenschaft für den Blues und Jazz der "alten Meister", insbesondere t-bone Walker, B.B. King und Albert Collins, die neben Jazzern wie Wes Montgomery und John Scofield sein Gitarrenspiel stark geprägt haben...
Der Künstler
... die Veröffentlichung der ersten CD „in between“ (2004, Fox Music, FMC 0327991) ist das gelungene Ergebnis dieses Stilmix: "Ein Blues-, Jazz- und Soulalbum, das es in sich hat!“ (Dirk Föhrs, bluesnews).
Zur Zeit ist der Gitarrist mit seinem Blue George Trio
auf Tour (CD "Blues & Groove I-VI", 2014, Fox Music, FMC 1438991). Sein typischer Sound aus druckvollem Blues, coolen Funk-Grooves und eleganter Jazz-Harmonik ist in Clubs und auf Festivals sehr gefragt:
„…Blue George schafft es, dem Lebensgefühl unserer Zeit eine musikalische Entsprechung zu geben!“
(breminale festival).
Der Entertainer
... neben der eigenen Blues- und Jazzband ist Blue George heute ein gefragter Gitarrist, Sänger und Frontman bei mehreren Gala- und Coverbands. Von Swing und Latin über Funk & Soul bis zu den Pop und Rock-Klassikern: Blue George präsentiert seine Livemusik immer mit viel Leidenschaft und einer großen Portion Charme und Humor... :-)
Im Alter von 15 siedelte er nach Deutschland über und fand schließlich in Köln seine zweite Heimat. Er nutzte jede Gelegenheit, um auf die Bühne zu kommen, nahm Jazz-Unterricht (Axel Zinowski/ Münster, Frank Haunschild/ Köln) und flog für Workshops nach New York.
In den USA entdeckte er seine Leidenschaft für den Blues und Jazz der "alten Meister", insbesondere t-bone Walker, B.B. King und Albert Collins, die neben Jazzern wie Wes Montgomery und John Scofield sein Gitarrenspiel stark geprägt haben...
Der Künstler
... die Veröffentlichung der ersten CD „in between“ (2004, Fox Music, FMC 0327991) ist das gelungene Ergebnis dieses Stilmix: "Ein Blues-, Jazz- und Soulalbum, das es in sich hat!“ (Dirk Föhrs, bluesnews).
Zur Zeit ist der Gitarrist mit seinem Blue George Trio
auf Tour (CD "Blues & Groove I-VI", 2014, Fox Music, FMC 1438991). Sein typischer Sound aus druckvollem Blues, coolen Funk-Grooves und eleganter Jazz-Harmonik ist in Clubs und auf Festivals sehr gefragt:
„…Blue George schafft es, dem Lebensgefühl unserer Zeit eine musikalische Entsprechung zu geben!“
(breminale festival).
Der Entertainer
... neben der eigenen Blues- und Jazzband ist Blue George heute ein gefragter Gitarrist, Sänger und Frontman bei mehreren Gala- und Coverbands. Von Swing und Latin über Funk & Soul bis zu den Pop und Rock-Klassikern: Blue George präsentiert seine Livemusik immer mit viel Leidenschaft und einer großen Portion Charme und Humor... :-)
The 49 blues
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