The World Don't Owe Me Nothing

Download or read book The World Don't Owe Me Nothing written by David Honeyboy Edwards and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.