R.I.P. Honeyboy
Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton, Kansas City Red, Floyd Jones; 1980-81 [Earwig Records]
Honeyboy’s music was so straightforward. It is amazing he carried on right up to just recently. He outlasted them all. And became pretty big. A fellow in Chicago named Michael Frank did a great job to get Honeyboy out on the road…to the Smithsonian, and everywhere… Michael formed a studio combo group around Honeyboy [despite the fact that he was a timebreaker from his heart] in the early 80s…Included Walter Horton, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, and Sunnyland Slim. They made a record called “Old Friends” on Michael’s Earwig label. Through Slim I got to meet Honeyboy. He invited us into his house (my wife Cecelia, Slim and Homesick James or Floyd Jones) and was very kindly cordial. Like a lot of South Side homes, they got the bottle of cold tap water out of the refrigerator and poured water for all. Old times. Good times. I am off today…we are moving about two doors down fro...