David Edwards
David Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
dead god raise ready
I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
home
I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
I drive every day. I like to gamble.
money nobody running
When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
I knew BB King when he first started out.
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
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.