Honeyboy Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born in Shaw in 1915 and fled the rising waters of the 1927 flood. His father bought him a used guitar for eight dollars in the fall of 1929, as the stock market collapsed. Edwards kept playing for eight decades, through New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago and abroad, and knew the Delta elite: Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and B.B. King. His memoir, The World Don't Owe Me Nothing, appeared in 1997, and a documentary, Honeyboy, followed five years later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dockery Farms — 13 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 13 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 16 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Winterville Mounds — 18 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.

More markers nearby

• Peavine — 7.6 mi
• Gospel and the Blues — 10 mi
• The Marshall Plan — 10 mi
• Adath Israel Temple — 10 mi