Honeyboy Edwards
Honeyboy Edwards

Honeyboy Edwards. Actor: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. "Delta blues" artist David "Honeyboy"--a nickname his sister gave him as a child--Edwards was born in Shaw, MS, in 1915. He taught himself to play the guitar as a boy by listening to such bluesmen as Tommy McClennan and Robert Petway. By age 14 he was playing in "juke joints" in the South with such artists as Big Joe Williams and...