The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

From sharecropper's son to itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's life is like a distillation of the classic blues legends. His good friends and musical partners were blues pioneers Charlie Patton, Tommy McClennan, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson, among many others. Honeyboy went on the road to play guitar at age 17 under the tutelage of Big Joe Williams.

Historians will delight in the firsthand accounts of his upbringing as a sharecropper's son, the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, the racial problems and economics of southern blacks, and the Depression. It also contains comprehensive appendices that provide the history behind Honeyboy's words including information on all the musicians and songs he mentions.