He hung and played with Robert Johnson, the guitarist rumored to have sold his soul to the devil for the gift of the blues. For music fans, that's the equivalent of being in the presence of God and living to tell the tale. But like each of the famous bluesmen who passed before him, David Honeyboy Edwards had to put down his guitar eventually. Believed to have been the last surviving link to the first generation of Mississippi Delta blues musicians, Edwards died Aug. 29 at 96. The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of a slave, he picked up his...
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