his autobiography, touring well into his 90s. Between 1996 and 2000, he was nominated for eight W. C. Handy/Blues Music Awards, including for his albums White Windows, The World Don't Owe Me Nothin''', Mississippi Delta Blues Man, and a 2007 album on which he appears with Robert Lockwood Jr., Henry Townsend and Pinetop Perkins titled Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas. The latter album won a Grammy Award in 2008. He also won the W. C. Handy Blues Award in 2005 and the Blues Music Award in 2007 for Acoustic Blues Artist. In 2010, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. On July 17, 2011, Frank announced that Edwards would retire because of ill health. Edwards died of congestive heart failure at his home on August 29, 2011, at about 3 a.m. According to events listings on the Metromix Chicago website, he had been scheduled to perform at noon that day, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park. Discography "Build a Cave"/"Who May Be Your Regular Be" (ARC, 1951) "Drop Down Mama" (Chess, 1953) I've Been Around (Trix Records, 1978, 1995)Mississippi Delta Bluesman (Folkways Records, 1979) Old Friends (Earwig, 1979) White Windows (Blue Suit, 1988) Delta Bluesman (Earwig/Indigo, 1992) Crawling Kingsnake (Testament, 1997) World Don't Owe Me Nothing, recorded live (Earwig, 1997) Don't Mistreat a Fool (Genes, 1999) Shake 'Em On Down (APO, 2000) Mississippi Delta Bluesman (reissue of 1979 album: Smithsonian Folkways Records, 2001) Back to the Roots (Wolf, 2001) Roamin' and Ramblin (Earwig, 2008) Film In the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, Edwards recounts stories about Johnson, including his murder. Edwards is the subject of 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 his 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. Awards and honors 1996: Induction into the Blues Hall of Fame 1998: Keeping the Blues Alive Award in literature, for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing1999: Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Classics of Blues Literature, for The World Don't Owe Me Nothing2002: National Heritage Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts