![]() ![]() I've been visiting the Delta ever since I could drive a car. I got to hang around Honeyboy a little bit. Only one ( Drop down mama) has been issued on LP, the remainder lays somewhere in the Chess vaults if there still is such a thing today! When he hit Chicago in 1953, he eventually recorded for the Chess label four titles that Chess didn't issue because they thought Edwards's style was too close to Muddy Waters', which was of course true. He waxed four sides in Texas (only two were issued), one striking version of Sweet Home Chicago in Memphis for Sam Phillips that will stay unissued for decades and even attributed to piano player Albert Williams (!). His recorded output during the 1950's is unfortunately quite thin but of a very high quality. But instead he preferred to drift here and there, working as a field hand a little bit everywhere in the Southern States and playing his music in juke joints and venues. Like Muddy Waters and so many others, Honeyboy should have migrate to Chicago and probably he would have started to record a thicker work and maybe become an important name of the post-war Chicago blues. ![]()
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