David "Honeyboy" Edwards, born in Shaw in 1915 and nicknamed by his sister, became a rambling bluesman after starting guitar at age 12 with lessons from his father, Henry Edwards, and as a teenager encountering early bluesmen such as Tommy Johnson and Charley Patton. In 1932 Big Joe Williams took him under his wing and taught him how to survive on the road, and Edwards later traveled widely, hoboing on freight trains, avoiding arrests for vagrancy, gambling, and playing blues for tips. In 1937-38 he worked some with Robert Johnson and attended Johnson's final performance near Greenwood in 1938, when Johnson was allegedly poisoned. He also worked with the Memphis Jug Band, Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2 (Rice Miller), Tommy McClennan, and Little Walter Jacobs in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Memphis. A Library of Congress-Fisk University research team recorded him in Clarksdale in 1942, and in 1951 he made his first commercial recordings in Houston for the ARC label as "Mr. Honey." He also recorded for Sun and Chess in the 1950s, though those sessions were not issued until the 1970s. After settling in Chicago with his wife in 1956, he worked as a laborer and performed with Big Walter, Carey Bell, and others, later appearing on a 1969 Fleetwood Mac album and recording many albums over subsequent decades. Revered both for his music and for his colorful accounts of early Delta bluesmen, he captured the itinerant bluesman's life in his 1997 autobiography The World Don't Owe Me Nothin', was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996, appeared in the 2002 documentary Honeyboy, shared the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, toured worldwide in his final decades, and died in Chicago on August 29, 2011. Shaw also had blues activity centered in juke joints such as the White House, the Riverside Inn, the One Minute, and Fox's, hosted small local blues festivals since the 1990s, and was the birthplace of Louis Satterfield and Michael "Dr. Mike" James.