One of the few original Mississippi Delta bluesman still living, David “Honeyboy” Edwards not only sings of hard times, he lived them. “HONEYBOY AND THE HISTORY OF THE BLUES” reveals the details of the time, place and circumstances in which blues music originated. Born in 1915 to sharecropper parents, “Honeyboy” realized as a boy that he had the ability and desire to use music to avoid back breaking labor in the cotton fields of the deep south. Playing in jukehouses throughout the south, “Honeyboy” was influenced by musicians now recognized as legends, including Charley Patton, Big Joe Williams, Little Walter Jacobs and Robert Johnson.

“Honeyboy’s” first hand accounts of the origins of the blues, combined with humorous and compelling commentary from contemporary musicians BB King, Lucinda Williams, Robert Cray, Joe Perry and Keith Richards, paint a picture of the importance of blues music as a foundation for all popular music that followed. (52 minutes, 2011)

“Honeyboy” is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, one received in 2010 for Lifetime Achievement and he also received a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship in 2002, recognizing him as a National Treasure.