a Discography of Compilation Recordings of DAVID "HONEYBOY" EDWARDS
1950's Solo/Own Band Compilations w/Other Bands Bootlegs	1960's Solo/Own Band Compilations w/Other Bands Bootlegs	1970's Solo/Own Band Compilations w/Other Bands Bootlegs	1980's Solo/Own Band Compilations w/Other Bands Bootlegs	1990's Solo/Own Band Compilations w/Other Bands Bootlegs	2000's Solo/Own Band Compilations w/Other Bands Bootlegs
COMPILATIONS
Various Artist (David Edwards [Honey Boy Edwards]) Negro Blues And Hollers: From the Archive of Folk Song Release Date: 1962 Label: Library of Congress AFS L59 Type: - Camp Hollers. Sung by an Unidentified Singer Sung by Son House At Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1941 - Cornfield Hollers. Sung by Charley Berry At Clarksdale, Ms. - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord. Sung by The Congregation Of Silent Grove Baptist Church With Trombone And Guitar At Clarksdale, Ms. - I'm Gonna Lift Up A Standard For My King. Sung by The Congregation Of The Church Of God In Christ At Moorehead Plantation, Lula, Ms. - Worried Life Blues. Sung by David Edwards (Honey Boy Edwards) With Guitar At Clarksdale, Ms. - Ragged And Dirty. Sung by William Brown With Guitar At Clarksdale, Ms. - Special Rider Blues. Sung and played by Son House With Guitar At Robinsonville, Ms. - Depot Blues. Sung and played by Son House With Guitar At Robinsonville, Ms. - Mississippi Blues. Sung by William Brown With Guitar At Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942 - Four O'Clock Blues. Sung and played by Willie Blackwell And William Brown With Guitar At Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942 - East St. Louis Blues. Sung by William Brown With Guitar At Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942 - Low Down, Dirty Dog Blues. Sung and played by Son House With Guitar At Robinsonville, Ms, 1942 ed. by Marshall W. Stearns
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) Ramblin' On My Mind Classic Train and Travel Blues Release Date: 1965 Label: Milestone MLP-3002 Type: Johnny Young with Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Walker - Hear That Whistle Blow Carl Hodges - Standing At The Greyhound Station Leroy 'Country' Dallas - She Caught The M&O Jimmy Brewer - Pea Vine Whistle Honeyboy Edwards - Highway 61 # Big Joe Williams - Ramblin' On My Mind Blind Connie Williams - Key To The Highway Dr. Isaiah Ross - Hobo Blues John Lee Grandison - My Home Ain't Here Bill Jackson - Freight Train Blues Elijah Brown - Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay W. B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson - Mean Old Train # rec. March 17, 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; David Edwards, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; prod. by Pete Welding and Norman Dayron notes by Pete Welding
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) Really Chicago Blues Release Date: 1969 Label: Adelphi AD 1005 Type: DLP Johnny Shines/Sunnyland Slim/Backwards Sam Firk - Two Long Freight Trains John Lee Granderson/Big Joe Williams/Firk - Girl At The Bottom Slim/Shines/Firk - Rolling And Tumbling Honeyboy Edwards/Firk - Hot Springs Blues Williams/Granderson/Firk - If You Can't Shimmy-She-Wobble Shines/Slim/Firk/Williams - As Long As The World Stands Slim/Shines/Firk - Cuttin' Out Blues Honeyboy Edwards/Firk - Howling Wind Shines/Slim/Williams/Firk - Evening Sun Granderson/Williams/Firk - Going 'Round The World Williams/Slim/Shines/Firk - Mama Don't Allow Me Shines/Edwards/Walter Horton - For The Love Of Mike Honeyboy Edwards - Jersey Bull Blues Williams/Granderson/Firk - You're An Old Lady Shines/Slim/Firk - Poor Man's Tonic Horton/Edwards/Shines - Way 'Cross Town Williams/Shines/Slim - Jook House Blues Slim/Shines/Firk - She Got A Thing Going On Granderson/Williams/Firk - Stop Braeking Down Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago Granderson/Williams/Firk - Yellow Box Blues Shines/Slim/Williams/Firk - Bye Bye Baby rec. September 3, 1969 in Chicago, Ill.; engineered by Gene Rosenthal; edited by Gene Rosenthal and Michael Stewart DLP notes by G. L. Moore Echo 803 (1985) "Blues Anthology Vol. 3" "Real Chicago Blues"
Varius Artists (David 'Honeyboy' Edwards) Drop Down Mama Release Date: 1970 Label: Chess 411 Type: - Johnny Shines - So Glad I Found You Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Black Angel - Anna Lee Big Boy Spires - One Of These Days David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Drop Down Mama [Chess unissued] # Floyd Jones - Playhouse Big Boy Spires - Murmur Low Floyd Jones - You Can’t Live Long Johnny Shines - Joliet Blues Robert Nighthawk - Jackson Gal Blues - Return Mail Blues Claude Smith - Crying - Sad Story Floyd Jones Dark Road # rec. January 9, 1953 in Chicago, Ill.; Honeyboy Edwards, voc, g; Gus Jenkins, p; poss. Willie Nix, dr P-Vine PLP 807 (Jp)                 MCA Chess CHD-93002
Various Artists (Mr. Honey [David Edwards]) Juke Joint Blues Release Date: - Label: Blues Classics BC 23 Type: - Eddie Burns - Bad Woman Blues Ernest "Buddy" Lewis - Lonesome Bedroom Harvey Hill Jr. - She Fooled Me Mr. Honey (David Edwards) - Build A Cave L. C. Williams - The Lazy J Lightning Leon - Reposession Blues Alvin Smith - On My Way Dr. Hepcat - Hattie Green Sonny Boy Holmes - The $64 Question Arthur "Big Boy" Spires - Which One Do I Love Sonny Terry - Harmonica Train Sonny Boy Holmes - T N T Woman Jimmy Wilson - Trouble, Trouble Square Walton - Bad Hangover rec. 1948 - 1959
Various Artists (Mr. Honey [Honeboy Edwards)] Water Coast Blues Release Date: 1977 Label: Flyright LP 4704, Krazy Kat KK 7445 (1989) Type: - Flyright 4704 tracks: Wright Holmes - Good Road Blues The Sugarman - She's Gone With The Wind - Which Woman Do I Love James Tisdom - Model T Boogie - Last Affair Blues - I Feel So Good - Overhaul Blues Luther Stoneham - January 11, 1949 Blues - Sittin' Here Wonderin' Sunny James - Please Mam Forgive Me - Excuse Me Baby Sonny Boy Holmes - I Got Them Blues - Walking And Crying Blues Mr. Honey (Honeboy Edwards) - Who May Your Regular Be Krazy Kat 7445 tracks: Leroy 'Country' Johnson - No One To Love Me The Sugarman - She's Gone With The Wind - Which Woman Do I Love James Tisdom - Model T Boogie - Last Affair Blues - I Feel So Good - Overhaul Blues - Winehead Swing - Throw This Old Dog A Bone Luther Stoneham - January 11, 1949 Blues - Sittin' Here Wonderin' Sunny James - Please Mam Forgive Me - Excuse Me Baby Sonny Boy Holmes - I Got Them Blues - Walking And Crying Blues Mr. Honey (Honeboy Edwards) - Who May Your Regular Be notes by Chris Bentley Krazy Kat KK 7445 (1989)
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) Union Avenue Breakdown The Roots Of Rock Vol. 12 Release Date: 1977 Label: Charly CR 30127 Type: - Jimmy DeBerry - Party Line Blues Joe Hill Louis - Treat Me Mean And Evil Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues - Take A Little Walk With Me Walter Horton - Walter's Boogie Honeyboy Edwards [mistakenly credited to Albert (Joiner) Williams] - Sweet Home Chicago Albert (Joiner) Williams - Rhumba Chillen Woodrow Adams - The Train Is Coming William Stewart - Rattlesnakin' Mama - The Call Me Talkin' Boy Dr. Ross with Henry Hill - That Ain't Right Dr. Ross - Texas Hop Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie Chris Booker - Walked All Night Boyd Gilmore & Earl Hooker - Believe I'll Settle Down
Various Artists (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) Songs of War and History Release Date: 1978 Label: Library of Congress LBC 10 Type: - Blue Sky Boys - Great Grand Dad John Bray - Trench Blues William and Versey Smith - Everybody Help the Boys Come Home Wladyslaw Polak - W Amerykan'skiem Mies'cie Wilmoth Houdini and His Humming Birds - African Love Call Antti Syrjäniemi - Daytonin Apinajuttu Oscar Ford - Race Between A Ford And Chevrolet Hiski Salomaa - Värssyjä Sieltä Ja Täältä Hazekiah Jenkins - The Panic Is On Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys - Old Age Pension Check Springback James - New Red Cross Blues David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - The Army Blues Willie '61' Blackwell - Junior, A Jap Girl's Christmas For Her Santa Claus Duke of Iron - Convoy L. W. [Lambert] and Harold [Tomlin] and the Carolina Neighbors - The Battle In Korea Lulu Belle and Scotty - I'm No Communist Louisiana Red - Red's Dream edited by Richard K. Spottswood notes by Judith R. Harway, Pekka Gronow, Donald R. Hill
Various Artists (David Edwards) Walking Blues Release Date: 197? Label: Flyright FLY 541 Type: LP Son House - Levee Camp Blues - Goverment Fleet Blues - Walking Blues Fiddlin' Joe Martin - Fo' Clock Blues Willie Brown - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Goin' To Fishing Son House - Special Rider Blues Leroy Williams - Uncle Sam Done Called Willie '61' Blackwell - Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus David Edwards * - Spread My Raincoat Down - Water Coast Blues [Watercourse Blues] - The Army Blues - Wind Howlin' Blues - Roamin' And Ramblin' Blues * rec. July 20 & 22, 1942 by Alan Lomax notes by John Cowley
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) Sun Records - The Blues Years 1950-1956 Release Date: 1985 Label: Charly Sun Box 105 Type: 9 LP box set Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago rec. Memphis 1952/53
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) Memphis Aggressive Guitars Vol. 2 Release Date: 1987 Label: P-Vine PLP-341 (Jp) Type: - Earl Hooker - Earl's Boogie Woogie Charlie Booker - Walked All Night Long - Baby, I'm Coming Home Walter Bradford - Too Blue To Cry Earl Hooker - The Hucklebuck Boyd Gilmore - Believe I'll Stelle Down Earl Hooker - Call My Name (Goin' On Down The Line) - Guitar Rag No. 2 Raymond Hill - I'm Back Pretty Baby - Sittin' On Top Of The World L.B. Lawson - Can't Love Me And My Money, Too - Got My Call Card Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago Albert Williams - Rhumba Chillen - Hoodoo Man Earl Hooker - Earl's Shuffle
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) From Helena to Chicago Chicago Blues Sessions Vol. 8 Release Date: 1988 Label: Wolf 120.854 Type: - Honeyboy Edwards - West Helena Blues Eddie C. Campbell - My Sister Told Me Johnny B. Moore - Straighten Up Woman Honeyboy Edwards - Build Myself A Cave Eddie C. Campbell - Rock Me Honeyboy Edwards - Just Walking Honeyboy Edwards - Drop Down Mama Eddie C. Campbell - Last Affair Honeyboy Edwards with Johnny B. Moore - Sweet Home Chicago Johnny B. Moore - Mean Old Frisco Honeyboy Edwards - Little Boy Blue Eddie C. Campbell - Jump, Jump, Jump rec. in Vienna, Austria Wolf CD 120.854
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) Black Music Originals Vol. 3 The Sun CD Collection Release Date: 1988 Label: Charly CD Sun 7 Type: - Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (tk. 1)
Various Artists (Honeyboy Edwards) An Early Chess Blues Anthology 1947 - 1953 Release Date: 1991 Label: Vogue VG 660531 (Fr) Type: 2 CD set disc 1 Sunnyland Slim - Johnson Machine Gun - Flyright Little Girl Ethel Mae & Robert Nigthawk - Down The Line - Handsome Lover Leroy Foster - Shady Grove Blues Forest City Joe - Memory Of Sonny Boy - Sawdust Bottom - Lonesome Day Blues Baby Face Leroy - My Head Can't Rest Anymore - Take A Little Walk With Me Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Black Angel - Anna Lee - Return Mail Blues Little Johnny Jones - Big Town Playboy - Shelby County Blues Robert Nighthawk - Six-Three-O - Prison Bound - Jackson Town Gal disc 2 Shoe Shine Johnny Shines - Joliet Blues - So Glad I Found You Floyd Jones - Dark Road - Big World - Overseas - Playhouse Doctor Ross - Country Clown Big Boy Spires - One Of These Days - Murmur Low Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Tears Woodrow Adams - Pretty Baby Blue Smitty - Crying - Sad Story - Elgin Movements Floyd Jones - You Can't Live Long Honeyboy Edwards - Drop Down Mama Gus Jenkins - Eight Ball Little Henry - Matchbox Blues
Various Artists (David 'Honeyboy' Edwards) Roots of Rythm & Blues A Tribute to the Robert Johnson Era Release Date: 1992 Label: CBS 48584 Type: - Johnny 'Ned' Shines & Kent DuChaine & ensemble - Sweet Home Chicago Lonnie Pitchford - Come On In My Kitchen Moving Star Hall Singers - You've Got To Move Henry Townsend - All My Money's Gone Robert Jr. Lockwood & Gene Schwartz, b - How Long, How Long Blues David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - That's Alright Jesse Mae Hemphill - Train, Train Elder Roma Wilson - This Train Phil Wiggins - Silver Comet Train Railroad Maintenance Crew - Captain Can't Read Johnny 'Ned' Shines - Satisfied - Watermelons David Savage - I'm Going Home John Cephas & Phil Wiggins - Brownsville Blues Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble - Loved And Lost Lonnie Pitchford - Walking Blues Johnny 'Ned' Shines - Tell Me Daddy, How You Want Your Rolling Done David Savage - Bertha Moving Star Hall Singers - If You Miss Me Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble - Moon Is Rising Robert Jr. Lockwood - Kindhearted Woman Blues Toshi Reagon - I Hate To See The Sun Go Down Lonnie Pitchford - Terraplane Blues Johnny 'Ned' Shines & ensemble - Milk Cow Blues - Fat Mama notes by Barry Lee Pearson with introduction by Bernice Johnson Reagon PDF Notes
Various Artists (David Honeyboy Edwards) Bottleneck Blues Release Date: 1995 Label: (Testament 2216 announced, but not issued) Testament TCD 5021, P-Vine PCD-5576 (Jp) Type: - Napoleon Strickland - Key To The Bushes Big Joe Williams - Talking About Bottleneck - Traveling Blues Robert Night Hawk - Crying Won't Help You Mississippi Fred McDowell - Six White Horses Mott Willis - Knife Instrumental Robert Lee Granderson - Flora Blues J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Wild Wild Woman Blind Connie Williams - St. Louis Blues David Honeyboy Edwards - Worryin' Woman Blues # Robert Johnson - I'm Coming, Lord, Please Don't Drive Me Away Chicago Blues Band - Verna Lee Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wouldn't Mind Dying John Littlejohn - Dust My Broom Blind Connie Williams - Trouble In Mind Big Joe Williams - How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done Mott Willis - M & O Blues Johnny Shines - Crucial Moment Jack Owens - Train Time Robert Johnson - I Don't Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me Herb Quinn - Casey, You Can't Ride This Train Napoleon Strickland - Skake 'Em Down # rec. July 29, 1967 in Chicago, Ill., by Pete Welding; David "Honeyboy" Edwards voc, g
Various Artists (David Edwards) Uncle Sam Blues Release Date: 1996 Label: Blues Encore CD 52043 Type: - - Army Blues - Bukka White - G.I. Blues - Lightnin' Slim - Red's Dream - Louisiana Red - Vietnam Blues - J.B. Lenoir - Stormy Desert - Cooper Terry - Overseas Blues - Memphis Willie Borum - Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man - Snooky Pryor - Back To Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim - Vietcong Blues - Junior Wells - Million Lonesome Women - Brownie McGhee - '41 Blues - Dr. Clayton - Pearl Harbour Blues - Dr. Clayton - Give Me A 32-30 - Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Win The War Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson - The Army Blues - David Edwards - Atomic Bomb Blues - Homer Harris - So Cold In Vietnam - Johnny Shines - Sad News From Korea - Lightnin' Hopkins
Various Artists (David Honeyboy Edwards) Down Home Slide Release Date: 1998 Label: Testament CD 6009 Type: - - That's All Right # Robert Nighthawk - I Know She Didn't Love Me # John Henry Barbee - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed # Mississippi Fred McDowell, Annie Mae McDowell - Roll Me Over Slow # Big Joe Williams - Everything Gonna Be Alright # Robert Nighthawk - John Henry # Elijah Brown - Jackson Town Eddie Taylor - Mad & Evil # George Coleman - I'm On My Way To Canaan Land # Blind Connie Williams - Which Way My Baby Go # Big Joe Williams - Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues Johnny Shines - Slidin' John Littlejohn - Walk On, Little Girl # Big Joe Williams - Poor Boy Long Way From Home Arthur Weston - Anna Lee # Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Home Chicago David Honeyboy Edwards - I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion # Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Lonesome Bed # Big Joe Williams - Key To The Highway # Blind Connie Williams
Various Artists (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) Rock Me, Shake Me Field Recordings Vol. 15 - Mississippi 1941-1942 Release Date: 2002 Label: Document DOCD 5672 Type: - Asa Ware - The Boll Weevil David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - I Love My Jelly Roll [previously unissued] Charley Berry - Holler - Interview - Holler - Interview Unidentified Man - Hitler Toast Manuel Casey - Rock Me, Shake Me Roxie Threadgill - Witness For The Lord - I'm Goin' Lean On The Lord Mrs. Johnson - Done Taken My Lord Away Roxie Threadgill - Rock, Daniel Mrs. Johnson - Shout For Joy Roxie Threadgill - You Got To Stand Your Test In Judgement - Low Down Your Chariot And Let Me Ride Mrs. Johnson - Father, I Stretch My Hand To Thee Sid Hemphill - Interview - The Roguish Man (part 1) - The Roguish Man (part 2) - The Boll Weevil Alec Askew - Interview and tuning of 4-hole quills Sid Hemphill - So Soon I'll Be At Home notes by Bob Groom
Various Artists (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) The Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen Live in Dallas Release Date: 2008 Label: - Type: - 1. King Biscuit Time - Robert Lockwood, Jr. 2:55 2. Chicken Shack - Joe Willie Pinetop Perkins 4:42 3. It's Got to End Somewhere - Henry James Townsend 3:56 4. Catfish Blues - David Honeyboy Edwards 2:58 5. Down in Mississippi - Joe Willie Pinetop Perkins 3:36 6. Hangin' On - Robert Lockwood, Jr. 5:17 7. All My Money's Gone - Henry James Townsend 4:57 8. Sweet Home Chicago - David Honeyboy Edwards 3:09 9. Kansas City Joe - Willie Pinetop Perkins 4:53 10. If I Asked You - Henry James Townsend 6:08 11. Got to Find Me a Woman - Robert Lockwood, Jr. 4:56 12. Country Boy - David Honeyboy Edwards 3:13 13. Got My Mojo Workin' - Joe Willie Pinetop Perkins 5:11 14. If You Don't Want Me - Henry James Townsend 5:59 15. For You My Love - Robert Lockwood Jr 4:37 16. Apron Strings - David Honeyboy Edwards 1:49 17. Blind Girl Blues - Henry James Townsend 4:21 18. Cc Rider - Robert Lockwood, Jr. 3:55
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