David Edwards
David Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
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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.
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I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When at my heaviest, I wore 48-inch waist pants. I bought 32-inch slacks I'm planning on wearing this weekend at my son's graduation with the Marines.
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The question is how much of a future upside is in the stock and business for 2006.
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I weigh now 162 pounds, a dramatic drop from the 250-plus pounds I weighed when I laid down on the surgeon's table, ... Since that surgery last year, I've been able not only to lose weight, but to quit taking all but one medication, down from the seven forms of meds I required daily to stay alive.