DISCOGRAPHY 2007-2025 (9CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) is an American blues musician
and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the
oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. Holmes is known as the last of
the Bentonia bluesmen, as he is the last blues musician to play the
Bentonia School.
Like Skip James and Jack Owens and other blues musicians from Bentonia,
Mississippi, Holmes learned to play the blues from Henry Stuckey, the
originator of the Bentonia blues. Holmes' music is based in the Bentonia
tuning utilizing open E-minor, open D-minor and a down tuned variant, and
is noted for its haunting, ethereal, rhythmic and hypnotic
qualities.
His eighth album, It Is What It Is, on Blue Front Records has been
praised by fans and music critics who have called it: "addictive" and
"obsession worthy," "as gritty, stark and raw as one could imagine" and
"absolutely hypnotic," and "an essential modern recording."
Jimmy Charles Holmes was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States, to Carey and Mary Holmes at their home in Bentonia, Mississippi. Holmes' parents were sharecroppers, who opened the Blue Front Cafe in 1948, the year after he was born. They had ten children, but also raised four grandchildren when one of their daughters died..... (Wikipedia)
NEW!
2007-Back to Bentonia @FLAC+
2009-Ain't It Lonesome @FLAC
2009-All Night Long @FLAC
2011-Back To Bentonia (5th Anniversary Deluxe) @FLAC
2016-It Is What It Is @FLAC+
2025-Bentonia Blues - Right Now @FLAC