Jimmy “Duck” Holmes ‎– Cypress Grove (Vinyl LP)

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Description

*This is a Vinyl LP*

Release Date:  2019

Label:  Easy Eye Sound

 

Track List

Side A

  1. Hard Times
  2. Cypress Grove
  3. Catfish Blues
  4. Goin’ Away Baby
  5. Rock Me

Side B

  1. Little Red Rooster
  2. Devil Got My Woman
  3. All Night Long
  4. Gonna Get Old Someday
  5. Train Train
  6. Two Women

 

Notes

72-year-old bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ new album, the Dan Auerbach produced Cypress Grove, captures the raw, explosive sound of real Mississippi Juke-Joint Blues today. Cypress Grove is an aural postcard of a typical Saturday night at Holmes’ Blue Front Café, America’s longest operating juke joint. The album is anchored by tradition — which is natural, since Holmes is the last of the original torchbearers of the rural style known as Bentonia blues—but it’s also explosive, raw, and unpredictably in the moment.

As the last of the Bentonia Blues musicians, Duck would also like to pay tribute to and honor Henry “Son” Stuckey, Jack Owens, Cornelius Bright, Skippy James, Tommy Lee West, Bud Spires, Adam Slater, Jacob Stuckey, Dodd Stuckey, and Bird Slater.

Duck has devoted his life to the Bentonia Blues.
He owns and operates Mississippi’s oldest surviving juke joint – The Blue Front Cafe, runs the oldest blues festival – The Bentonia Blues Festival, and recently started his own blues record label – Blue Front Records.
For more information, Duck said to “look it up on the computer.”

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