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Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Bentonia, United States
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is credited on 19 releases across 5 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1988–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
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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", and "as gritty, stark and raw as one could imagine" and "absolutely hypnotic", and "an essential modern recording".
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19 releases · 5 albums · active 1988–2019
- Performance · 72
- Other credits · 4
Studios: Blue Front Cafe · Studio 61 - Vicksburg, MS · Michael Schulze · Delta Recording, Clarksdale, Mississippi
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