David Honeyboy Edwards obituary

Blues singer and guitarist with an enthralling style, he played with Robert JohnsonFor several years in the early 2000s, American blues enthusiasts had the opportunity to see and hear four of the music's most numinous figures on stage together in a veterans' supergroup, the Delta Blues Cartel. Henry Townsend, Robert Jr Lockwood and Homesick James died in quick succession in late 2006; now the last member of the group, the singer and guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards, has died, aged 96.Part of t...

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