- Blues singer.
- Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996.
- Received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.
- The album "Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen -- Live in Dallas" won the 2007 Grammy Award for best traditional blues album. Edwards shared this award with Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr. and Henry Townsend.
- He was still playing 70 shows a year when he was in his 90s.
- His nickname Honey-Boy was a term of endearment from his sister, when he was a toddler.
- He left home at age 14 to hit the road with Delta Blues musicians, including Howlin' Wolf (aka Howlin' Wolf) and Little Walter.
- Cousin of J.D. Short.
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