Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (Band)

Biography:

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is one of the most celebrated rural blues musicians performing today and owns the Blue Front Cafe, Mississippi's oldest juke joint. Jimmy has lived a life steeped in blues. Today he is the last living practitioner of the celebrated style of Bentonia blues made famous by Skip James and Jack Owens.

In addition, Holmes operates what is arguably the oldest juke joint left in Mississippi with the Blue Front Café which was started by his parents in 1948 and is the organizer of one of the longest-running festivals in the state - the Bentonia Blues Festival.

Learning directly from Henry Stuckey (the Bentonia musician who introduced that style of blues playing) and influenced by other blues masters from Bentonia, especially Skip James and Jack Owens, Holmes sings his own compositions as well as classic blues from the local repertoire, and he accompanies his performances on acoustic guitar tuned to open D minor or open E minor, yielding a particularly mournful, haunting sound.

Holmes’ family tree was deeply rooted in the blues. In 1972 Holmes’ mother Mary started the Bentonia Blues Festival, which each year draws thousands of blues fans to Bentonia. While Holmes was recorded by folklorists Alan Lomax and David Evans in the 1970s, his first album, entitled Back to Bentonia, was released in 2006. He has subsequently released several other albums and has been featured in such documentary films as I Am the Blues (2016).

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