Full Text of HR1337 95th General Assembly
HR1337 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate David "Honeyboy" | 4 |
| Edwards on the occasion of his 93rd birthday, June 28, 2008; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, He is believed to be the oldest surviving Delta | 7 |
| bluesman; in the past year he has released a new album, won | 8 |
| Grammy and Handy Awards, appeared in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox | 9 |
| Story," and done interviews for three documentaries due out in | 10 |
| 2009 and 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, He still plays about 70 gigs a year; among the | 12 |
| footloose group of blues musicians who gained fame in the 1930s | 13 |
| and 1940s, Honeyboy Edwards was known for his far-ranging | 14 |
| travels; he learned the guitar growing up in Shaw, started | 15 |
| playing professionally at age 17 in Memphis and by the 1950s | 16 |
| had played with almost every bluesman of note - Tommy Johnson, | 17 |
| Charlie Patton, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson I, | 18 |
| Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters; and
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| WHEREAS, He was recently honored by the Robert Johnson | 20 |
| Blues Foundation along with the late Ike Zinnerman, who is | 21 |
| believed to be the teacher who helped Mr. Johnson become the | 22 |
| envy of his fellow bluesmen and a touchstone for a generation |
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| of rock 'n' roll musicians; and
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| WHEREAS, His latest album, "Roamin' and Ramblin'," offers | 3 |
| the kind of music he would have played as he traveled first the | 4 |
| Delta, then the region; and
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| WHEREAS, As quoted by Honeyboy Edwards, "Blues ain't never | 6 |
| going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. | 7 |
| You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, | 8 |
| my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be | 9 |
| blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle | 10 |
| blues, that's what rock 'n' roll did with it. So blues ain't | 11 |
| going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere."; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 14 |
| congratulate legendary bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards on | 15 |
| his 93rd birthday and wish him continued success playing the | 16 |
| music he loves so much; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to David "Honeyboy" Edwards as a symbol of our | 19 |
| respect and esteem.
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