David Edwards
David Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
blues good man people played plays stack supposed top
You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
people sung verses
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
watched whenever
I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.
The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.
robert
I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
blues delta dirty left people sad shame wide women
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
alone bad
I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
blues lonesome people sung verses
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.
care famous found guitar guitarist learn learned somewhere
I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.
across blues dirty mama papa rock roll shame shuffle supposed
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.
boy cold fell love played songs
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.
buy expect good opportunity raise smart time
I wouldn't expect them to buy something immediately. It was a good opportunity to raise capital. It was smart to do it in this time frame.
busy eating enjoyed good life plus since social
So life was busy and good, and since we're very social people, Vickie and I enjoyed going out often, eating at good restaurants, plus we enjoyed entertaining, and I thought appetizers consisted of lard, flour and sugar,