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 flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.

Reviews
"A valuable record of a way of life that has all but disappeared." -- Washington Post
"Magnificent! I've been waiting for this book since I was a kid." --Taj Mahal
"The most central contribution to blues history." --Boston Globe
"A deeply moving memoir...one of the last true country blues musicians...[a]story of a troubadour and of survival." --Studs Terkel



Book Information
ISBN 9781556523687
Author David Honeyboy Edwards
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Chicago Review Press
Publisher Chicago Review Press
Weight(grams) 476g