You can count on one hand the surviving Delta bluesmen who traveled the country during the 1930s and '40s. David "Honeyboy" Edwards, a direct link to the acoustic roots of American blues, is one of them. Born in 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, Honeyboy has spent the better part of eight decades playing deeply rural Mississippi blues. In the old days, after a few years playing juke joints and picnics, he busked with nearly all the greats (including Son House, Charlie Patton, and the legendary Robert Johnson, whose death Honeyboy witnessed). In 1942 at age 27, Honeyboy waxed 15 sides for folklorist Alan Lomax, his first recordings, for the Library of Congress (check out the 1992 Earwig reissue Delta Bluesman). But he didn't begin recording commercially until 1951 with the release Who May Your Regular Be (Arc Records). He later moved to the Windy City and cut many records. Despite the Chicago setting, his singing and guitar playing never lost that rural rawness—characteristics that mark his music to this day. In 1998 he published his critically acclaimed autobiography, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin'. We are proud to present an artist who has left his indelible mark on the foundation of the blues.