The World Don't Owe Me Nothing The Life and

This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River floo, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life and the Depression.

David Honeyboy Edwards has been traveling and performing for over 67 years. Already in the Blues Hall of Fame, he was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
All the people flowed to the Mississippi Delta	p. 1
The water overflowed her heart	p. 15
I kept that guitar in my hands	p. 25
Honey can play now!	p. 35
I wasn't going back to them fields	p. 45
The world don't owe me nothing!	p. 57
I was just up and down the road	p. 67
I had three ways of making it	p. 77
Everything sounded good to me	p. 89
Robert was crazy about women and crazy about his whiskey	p. 99
We was all just country boys	p. 107
Daddy, you can be my lemon squeezer!	p. 119
I didn't give a damn about nothing	p. 129
I had to go back to Coahoma before I got found	p. 137
He didn't know how good he was	p. 147
We did so good together, I kept her	p. 157
The blues is something that keeps you moving	p. 167
It don't always matter how good you play	p. 175
Chicago used to be a music town	p. 183
I never doubted myself	p. 191
I just got lucky when I got Bessie	p. 199
I stayed with the blues	p. 203
Miscellany	p. 213
Musicians	p. 229
Songs	p. 263
Discography	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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The World Don't Owe Me Nothing The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

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