a Discography of Solo or Band 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
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David Edwards Mr. Honey Release Date: 1951 Label: ARC 102 [Artist Record Company, Lola Anne Cullum's label, Houston, Texas] Type: 10 inch 78 rpm - Build A Cave (102A) - Who May Your Regular Be? (ACA-1666) * rec. 1951 in Houston, Tx.; David Edwards, voc, g; * Wilson 'Thunder' Smith, p
David Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: 1951 Label: ARC Type: - Early In The Morning (ACA-1665) - Who Could Be Loving You Tonight? (ACA-1667) rec. 1951 in Houston, Tx.; David Edwards, voc, g
Honeyboy Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: 1952-1953 Label: SUN Type: - - Sweet Home Chicago (tk. 1) * - Sweet Home Chicago (tk. 2) # rec 1952/53 in Memphis, Tenn.; Honeyboy Edwards, voc, g; Albert Williams, p; poss. Joe Willie Wilkins, g; Dickie Houston, dr; James Walker, washb * Charly CD Sun 7 (1988) # Charly CR 30127 (1977), Charly Sun Box 105 (1985)
Honeyboy Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: January 9, 1953 Label: Chess Type: - - Drop Down Mama (U-4339) # - Sweet Home Chicago (U-4340) - Santa Fe (U-4341) - Frisco Line (U-4342) rec. January 9, 1953 in Chicago, Ill.; Honeyboy Edwards, voc, g; Gus Jenkins, p; poss. Willie Nix, dr # Chess LP 411 (1970)
David Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: March 17, 1964 Label: Testament Type: - - My Baby's Gone - Angel Child - Love Me Over Slow rec. March 17, 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; David Edwards, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; prod. by Pete Welding and Norman Dayron Testament CD 6002 (1997)
David Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: March 17, 1964 Label: Testament Type: - - Blue And Lonesome - Ida Lou Blues rec. March 17, 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; John Lee Henley, voc, hca; David Edwards, g; prod. by Pete Welding and Norman Dayron Testament CD 6002 (1997)
David Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: July 29, 1967 Label: Testament Type: - - Just Like Jesse James # - Sweet Home Chicago # - Blues Like Showers Of Rain # - Long Tall Woman Blues # - Love Me Over Slow # - Crawling Kingsnake # - Skin And Bones Blues # - Bull Cow Blues # - Honeyboy speaks with Pete Welding about Robert Johnson and Tommy Johnson # - Worryin' Woman Blues * rec. July 29, 1967 in Chicago, Ill., by Pete Welding; David "Honeyboy" Edwards voc, g # Testament CD 6002 (1997) * Testament CD 5021 (1995)
Honeyboy Edwards Unreleased Session Release Date: unreleased Recording Date: January 4, 1969 Label: Blue Horizon unissued Type: - - My Baby's Gone - Honeyboy Blues (instr.) rec. January 4, 1969 in Chicago, Ill. Honeyboy Edwards, voc, g; Peter Green, g; Buddy Guy, g; Willie Dixon, b; Mick Fleetwood, dr Honeyboy Edwards, g; Walter Horton, hca; Buddy Guy, g; Willie Dixon, b; Mick Fleetwood, dr Columbia CD 488992 (1997) Columbia CD 494641 (1999)
Honeyboy Edwards Blues Blues Blues Release Date: 1975 Label: Roots SL-518 Type: - - Catfish Blues - Bad Rooster - Blues Blues - Sweet Home Chicago - Key To The Highway - Bumble Bee - Louise - Kansas City - Drop Down Mama - I Love You Baby - Take Me In Your Arms - When You Get Lonesome Document DOCD 32-20-08 (2005) "Blues Blues: December 10th 1975"
Honeyboy Edwards I've Been Around Release Date: 1978 Label: Trix 3319 Type: - - Pony Blues (Patton) $ - Sad & Lonesome (Edwards) #   + Walter Horton, hca - Hambone Blues (Lacey) * - Ride With Me Tonight (Burnett) $   + Eddie El, 2nd g - I'm A Country Man (Edwards) § - Banty Rooster (Patton) $ - Take Me In Your Arms (Edwards) #   + Walter Horton, hca - You're Gonna Miss Me (Edwards) § - I Feel So Good Today (Edwards) #   + Walter Horton, hca - Things Have Changed (Edwards) $   + Eddie El, 2nd g - Big Fat Mama (Johnson) $ - Eyes Full Of Tears (Edwards) § - The Woman I'm Loving (Edwards) $   + Eddie El, 2nd g - Big Road Blues (Johnson) #   + Walter Horton, hca * May 25 1974 # June 12 1975 § June 15 1975 $ May 10 1977 notes by Amy O'Neal Trix CD 3319 (1995) front cover Trix CD 3319 (1995) back cover Trix CD 3319 (1995) Insert (view for full size) 32 Blues 32185 (2000)   Savoy Jazz 17297 (2003)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards Mississippi Delta Buesman Release Date: 1979 Label: Folkways FS 3539 Type: - - Big Fat Mama - Catfish Blues - Sweet Home Chicago / Dust My Broom - Blue World All The Time - Ride With Me Tonight - Next Time You See Me - Remarks by Honeyboy - Pony Blues - Things Gonna Be Allright - I Feel So Good Today - Further On Up The Road - You're The One For Me - Bumble Bee - Remarks by Honeyboy rec. March 9, 1979 at India Navigation, NYC; prod. by Verna Gillis notes by Robert Palmer Smithsonian Folkways 40132 (2001) notes by Barry Lee Pearson download liner notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Kansas City Red, Floyd Jones Old Friends Release Date: 1981 Label: Earwig 4902 Type: LP - Apron Strings - Gamblin' Man - 43rd Street Jump - The War Is Over * - When I Came In - Banty Rooster - Mr. Freddy Blues - Over The Sea Blues * - I'm A Prisoner - Freedom Train - Lightin' Struck The Roor House - Linda Lu * - Lula Mae * - That's All Right I'll Be Around * - Heartache - Sometimes I Worry * - I'm Going Back Home rec. 1979 * CD bonus tracks Earwig CD 4902
David "Honeyboy" Edwards White Windows Release Date: 1989 Label: Blue Suit 102 Type: - - West Helena Blues - Don't Say I Don't Love You - Build Myself A Cave - Don't You Lie To Me - 61 Highway - Drop Down Mama - It's Been So Long Sinced I Laughed & Talked With You * - Shake 'em Down - Take A Little Walk - The War Is Over - Roll & Tumble Blues - Goin' Down Slow - Lay My Burden Down * bonus track on Evidence CD prod. by Gregory Oatis, John Gibbs Rockwood, Robert Seeman reissue producer: Jerry Gordon Evidence CD 26039 (1993) notes by John Anthony Brisbin
David "Honeyboy" Edwards Delta Bluesman Release Date: 1992 Label: Earwig CD 4922, Indigo CD 2003 Type: CD - Alan Lomax introduces David Edwards * - Roamin' And Ramblin' Blues * - I'm from the Library of Congress (interview) # - You Got To Roll (Levee Camp Song) [Chain Gang Song] [a capella version] * - You Got To Roll [version with guitar] * - Water Coast Blues [Water Course Blues] * - Stagolee * - Just A Spoonful * - Spread My Raincoat Down * - Hellatakin' Blues * - Wind Howlin' Blues * - Worried Life Blues * - Tear It Down [Tear It Down Rag] * - The Army Blues * - They called it Big Kate (interview) # - Big Katie Allen # - Black Cat # - I met Peetie Wheatstraw in '39 (interview) # - Number 12 At The Station # - When I came to Memphis (interview) # - Rocks In My Pillow # - We used to sing that when I was a kid (interview) # - Decoration Day # - Who May Your Regular Be # - I Studied up that song myself (interview) # - Eyes Full Of Tears # - Bad Whiskey And Cocaine [] * 1942 Library of Congress recordings # 1991 recordings featuring Carey Bell, hca; Sunnyland Slim, p; Aron Burton, b; Robert Plunkett, dr [] 1979 recording
David "Honeyboy" Edwards Crawling Kingsnake Release Date: 1997 Label: Testament CD 6002 Type: - - Just Like Jesse James * - Sweet Home Chicago * - Blues Like Showers Of Rain * - Long Tall Woman Blues * - Love Me Over Slow * - Crawling Kingsnake * - Skin And Bones Blues * - Bull Cow Blues * - Blue And Lonesome # [] - My Baby's Gone # - Ida Lou Blues # [] - Angel Child # - Love Me Over Slow # - Honeyboy speaks with Pete Welding about Robert Johnson and Tommy Johnson * * rec. July 29, 1967 in Chicago, Ill., by Pete Welding; David "Honeyboy" Edwards voc, g # rec. March 17, 1964 in Chicago, Ill., by Pete Welding; David "Honeyboy" Edwards voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca, [] voc prod. by Pete Welding
David Honeyboy Edwards The World Don't Own Me Nothing Release Date: 1997 Label: Earwig CD 4940 Type: CD - West Helena Blues - Walkin Blues - Robert Johnson Story - Catfish Blues - Every Now And Then - My Mama Told Me - Cross Roads - Too Many Drivers - Robert Nighthawk Story - You're The One - Comin' To Chicago Story - Sweet Home Chicago - Carey Bell Story - So Hard To Leave You - Hide Away rec. live 1996-97 with Carey Bell and Rick Sherry, hca
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Don't Mistreat a Fool Release Date: 1999 Label: Genes GCD 9914 Type: - - Myrtle Mae - Bull Cow Blues # 2 - Hot Springs (Arkansas) Blues - Must I Break ‘Em On Down - 61 Highway # 2 - Little Boy Blue - You Gonna Catch Trouble - B & O Blues - Love Honeyboy Slow - Don’t Mistreat A Fool - Howlin’ Wind - You’re The One - (Meet The) Mornin’ Train previously unissued 1969 session; includes accompaniments by Big Joe Williams, Big Walter Horton, Johnny Shines and Michael Stewart
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards Shake 'Em On Down Release Date: 2000 Label: APO CD 2010 Type: CD - High Water Everywhere - Drop Down Mama * - Monkey Face Woman - Shake 'Em On Down * - Louise Louise Blues - Pony Blues - Anna Lee * - Standing On The Corner - West Memphis Blues # - Bald Headed Woman - Bullfrog Blues # - Gambling Man - Take Me In Your Arms - Interview - Lord I Got To Go rec. 1999; David Edwards, voc, g; * Madison Slim, hca; # Jimmy D. Lane, g
David "Honeyboy" Edwards Honeyboy Release Date: 2006 Label: Free Range Pictures 880279123422 Type: Video Documentary "Honeyboy" is the lively biography of nanogenarian delta bluesman and 2002 NEA Heritage Fellowship recipient David "Honeyboy" Edwards.   This film delivers the blues,   its roots,   personal accounts of the deep south before the civil rights movement,   heartfelt stories of Edwards' missed recording opportunities and life on the road.   Includes appearances by B.B. King,   Sam Carr,   the late Willie Foster and others. Variety Magazine says "'Honeyboy' is effortlessly entertaining and full of anecdotal crackle." The Vancouver International Film Festival called the film "Atmospheric and music laden,   it shines with the palpable heat and colour of the deep south. "Honeyboy" screened in 17 film festivals worldwide,   winning Best Documentary honors at two. "Honeyboy" showed as part of the Scorcese blues series on PBS. Status: Available Label: Free Range Pictures Catalog: 1 Genre: Blues SubGenre: Blues Format: DVD
David "Honeyboy" Edwards Roamin' and Ramblin' Release Date: 2008 Label: Earwig Type: CD 1. Apron Strings 2:47 2. Crawling Kingsnake 3:06 3. Trouble Everywhere I Go 2:39 4. I Was In New Orleans Last Night 3:05 5. How Long 4:08 6. Maxwell Street Shuffle 3:25 7. The Army Blues 3:50 8. Roamin' and Ramblin' 3:35 9. Talking About Little Walter 1:23 10. Smoky Mountains 3:20 11. Strollin' Down Highway 61 1:39 12. Low Down Dog 1:43 13. Little Boy Blue 3:55 14. Freight Train Tale 1:03 15. Riding the Rails 3:47 16. She Worries Me All the Time 3:39 17. Boogie Rambler 2:22 18. Shufflin' the Blues Conversation 1:47 19. Jump Out 1:56
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