New Year Blues ain't nothing blue about this month's feature
Happy New Years! And what a better way to start this year out right
than with new music from Sparkadia, The Joy Formidable, and Low vs
Diamond. These are all new bands from different parts of the globe
and each of them made significant headway in 2008. But even if you
added up all of their collective touring time, they would not even
come close to the miles traveled by our last featured Artist to Watch,
David “Honeyboy” Edwards.
Honeyboy is a living legend – to put it mildly. His life has been intertwined with almost every major blues legend, including Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Big Joe Williams, Rice "Sonny Boy Williamson" Miller, Howlin' Wolf, Peetie Wheatstraw, Sunnyland Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Walter, Little Walter, Magic Sam, and Muddy Waters. He first recorded in 1949 with Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress.
Honeyboy has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He is the winner of the 2007 Handy Award for Acoustic Blues and his album, Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas, won a Grammy Award in 2008. It is truly an honor to have him as part of our humble program.
Please listen to his music and realize how he has influenced the music our day – how the other artists on our program can trace their musical roots right back to Honeyboy and his Mississippi Delta peers. And then just think for a moment about how the world has changed and how you can listen to the past in his voice and words. And please – please – listen to the BBC and NPR interviews to hear Honeyboy talk about the life of a bluesman.
Happy New Years!
Honeyboy is a living legend – to put it mildly. His life has been intertwined with almost every major blues legend, including Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Big Joe Williams, Rice "Sonny Boy Williamson" Miller, Howlin' Wolf, Peetie Wheatstraw, Sunnyland Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Walter, Little Walter, Magic Sam, and Muddy Waters. He first recorded in 1949 with Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress.
Honeyboy has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He is the winner of the 2007 Handy Award for Acoustic Blues and his album, Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas, won a Grammy Award in 2008. It is truly an honor to have him as part of our humble program.
Please listen to his music and realize how he has influenced the music our day – how the other artists on our program can trace their musical roots right back to Honeyboy and his Mississippi Delta peers. And then just think for a moment about how the world has changed and how you can listen to the past in his voice and words. And please – please – listen to the BBC and NPR interviews to hear Honeyboy talk about the life of a bluesman.
Happy New Years!
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