michelej1
05-25-2008, 12:54 PM
London Daily Times (Sunday) 5/25/08 article on David "Honeyboy" Edwards
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3984393.ece
The 1960s blues boom, however, resurrected Johnson as “king of the delta blues”, and this led scholars and young musicians to Honeyboy. He admits this was a surprise, especially when Fleetwood Mac invited him to record with them in 1969.
“It was on a Monday. Willie Dixon [the author of many blues standards] come to my house an’ tell me Fleetwood Mac asked if he knowed me. He said, ‘Yeah, I know Honeyboy.’ An’ they said, ‘Well, get him in, we wanna record with him.’ So we go on down to Chess studios, 21st an’ Michigan. An’ we recorded, me an’ Fleetwood Mac. Had a good time. They paid us some money.”
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3984393.ece
The 1960s blues boom, however, resurrected Johnson as “king of the delta blues”, and this led scholars and young musicians to Honeyboy. He admits this was a surprise, especially when Fleetwood Mac invited him to record with them in 1969.
“It was on a Monday. Willie Dixon [the author of many blues standards] come to my house an’ tell me Fleetwood Mac asked if he knowed me. He said, ‘Yeah, I know Honeyboy.’ An’ they said, ‘Well, get him in, we wanna record with him.’ So we go on down to Chess studios, 21st an’ Michigan. An’ we recorded, me an’ Fleetwood Mac. Had a good time. They paid us some money.”