Film
In the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, Edwards recounts stories about Johnson, including his murder.
The story of Edwards' own life is told in the 2010 award-winning film Honeyboy and the History of the Blues from Free Range Studios, directed by Scott Taradash. The film features stories of Edwards' life from picking cotton as a sharecropper to traveling the world performing his music. Artists who appear in the film include Keith Richards, Robert Cray, Joe Perry, Lucinda Williams, B.B. King, Big Joe Williams, and Ace Atkins.
Edwards appeared in the 2007 film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Read more about this topic: David "Honeyboy" Edwards
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“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
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