The birthday of the two Honeyboys

 I'm just going to get this post in under the wire, but today is Honeyboy Edwards' 93rd birthday, and we should all tip a glass to this venerable bluesman who's still performing, still sharing his blues life,

BlueNotes has a hard enough time just getting the computer open some days, and he's not quite 93. So let's appreciate the life and times and contributions of Edwards.

Artists like him are a direct link to the origins of the music blues fans love. Lots of other music fans owe him big, too. They just don't know it.

His picture here  is one I took at the Chicago Blues Festival earlier this month, when he was a mere 92. I've seen him a few times in the past year or so, and it never fails to amaze me that he's still out and about, playing the blues. By the way, thanks to Betsie Brown of Blind Raccoon Music for the birthday reminder. Otherwise, this would have been just another rainy Saturday night.

And some of you regular readers may remember another HoneyBoy -- the official dog of the BlueNotes blog. (that's him at right).

He was rescued a while back from a puppy mill, and it seemed fitting that after his tough young life, he should have a bluesman's name, in keeping with his sweet nature. So he became HoneyBoy Dog.

And he seemed to be about a year old, but he had no official b-day. Now he does. He's chewing a chunk of rawhide right now in honor of sharing his first birthday with his namesake.