---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:44:38 From: Mary Katherine Aldin <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [pre-war-blues] Re Honeyboy, from Andy Cohen He passed at three this morning, MK. I wrote this for FB, and also the Folk Alliance listserv: I am at the bottom of about ten postings of Honeyboys passing, close to tears. I did not know until this minute that he was gone, but knew that he had congestive heart failure and gout, not a good combination. Know that he could still play, until his final hour. I am truly sorry for his family and for Michael Frank, who managed him and built a genuine career for him, for almost forty years. Know also that he was the very last, truly 'pre-war' bluesman, left alive, recorded by Alam Lomax in 1941. So that's the end, folks. He knew and played with Robert Johnson, and in fact was the one who reported that he had been poisoned by a jealous husband, and was witth him as he was on his knees howling like a dog in his final hours. He also knew and played with Big Joe Williams, Robert Jr Lockwood, Tommy McClennan, Pinetop Perkins, Mad Dog Lester, Kansas City Red, Aaron Moore, John Dee Holeman and Fris Holloway, Rev. Dan Smith, Johnny Shines, 'Shaky' Horton, many members of the Memphis Jug Band, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, Frank Frost, Sam Carr, Big Jack Johnson, and in fact, most of the people listed in the Blues Who's Who and the vareious Blues encyclopedias. If you have read Dave Evans's 'Big Road Blues' and Elijah Wald's 'Escaping the Delta', also read Honeyboy's 'The World Don't Owe Me Nothing', in which he tells parallel, personal accounts of most everybody researched in those two books. Goodbye, Honeyboy. With you gone, the last vestige of the formative period of blues is now a memory. Please feel free to post this anywhere you may. It was not unexpected, but I'm kinda stunned at the moment with the gravity of it all. Andy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group To join our &quot;sister&quot; list, post-war-blues, send an email to [email protected] er&quot; list, post-war-blues, send an email to [email protected] Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest * Unsubscribe * Terms of Use . [stime=1314665091] __,_._,___
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