Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
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Christmas Alone / Merry Christmas, Baby
Broke and Hungry Records
45rpm 7"
$7
Stark, brooding holiday blues from Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, a great Bentonia blues artist and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe, one of the last jukes in the state.  "Duck's somber yuletide original 'Christmas Alone' is backed with a down-home version of 'Merry Christmas, Baby.'  Available on super cool red vinyl 45 housed in a nifty green sleeve." - Broke and Hungry. Hear a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXDn5aPlmlU
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 Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Gonna Get Old Someday
Big Legal Mess
CD
$12
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes seems to be the last guitarist/singer in the Bentonia Mississippi school, made famous by exponents such as Skip James, Jack Owens, and Cornelius Bright. Roughly speaking, it’s haunting, brooding music that found its apex in tunes such as “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” and “Devil Got My Woman”. Holmes plays these numbers and others from the regional repertoire, but he’s not monogamous to this style, as evidenced by his grooving “Done Broke Down,” which certainly ain’t moody nohow, even if Duck is singing about how he can’t get no grindin’. Occasionally backed by the great Calvin Jackson and Bud Spires, this session was recorded in 2003 and predates Duck’s subsequent Broke & Hungry output.