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About Me:: Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is the last living practitioner of the famed Bentonia blues style made famous by Skip James and Jack Owens. Holmes, 60, is also the owner of the legendary Blue Front Cafe, Mississippi's oldest juke joint. He has recorded two acclaimed CDs for Broke & Hungry Records.

Website Address: http://brokeandhungryrecords.com

Favorite Artists and Bands: Jack Owens, Skip James, Tommy West, Henry Stuckey.

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Bentonia Blues Festival Scheduled to Coincide With 60th Anniversary of the Blue Front Cafe

Bentonia Blues Fest Scheduled to Coincide With 60th Anniversary of Blue Front Café (Bentonia, MS) – If you lived in the tiny town of Bentonia, Mississippi a few decades ago, you could barely step outside of your home without hearing the sound of blues music floating through the air. “When I was a kid, sometimes you could sit on the porch and hear two, maybe three guitarists playing on different sides of town. The summer air would just carry that sound for miles,” said Bentonia blues guit… Continue

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Unreleased Jimmy "Duck" Holmes Song Available For Free Download!

Broke & Hungry Records is making available a previously unreleased recording of Jimmy "Duck" Holmes performing his song, "Take A Trip." The recording, available in mp3 format, is ONLY available through LiveBluesWorld. And it's absolutely FREE.

The recording stems from the session for Jimmy's sophomore CD, Done Got Tired of Tryin', which was held at his rural juke joint, the Blue Front Cafe in July 2006. Just as the song was reaching a full head of steam, a freight train blasted pas…

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Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 10:18pm — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 10:31pm on June 8th, 2008, Eric said…: Thanks for coming all the way up to Brooklyn Jimmy. Your show Thursday night was incredible. You sounded great...and the crowd loved every minute of it. Hope we can get you back up here sometime.

At 12:34pm on April 2nd, 2008, Poe said…: Mr. "Duck":

Please send your material to WABG-AM Radio 2001 Garrard Avenue Greenwood, MS 38930. www.jamespoe.com

At 4:52pm on March 5th, 2008, Mississippi Blue said…: Your Biscuit Roller Is Really Cool!
Your Picking Is Great :-)
I Love Your Blues!

At 1:53pm on February 20th, 2008, Sugar Blue said…: More power to you Mr.Holmes!!!!

At 10:02am on February 16th, 2008, Pappa D said…: jimmy, your fantastic. god bless you and keep you well

At 8:41pm on January 30th, 2008, Sue Burkhart said…: maybe...only maybe...could I hope to have a tiny bit of this type of mojo....maybe in my next life....amen.

At 4:39pm on January 27th, 2008, Ed Vadas said…: Jimmy, You are one of the few whose performance seems to embody what I feel is important in the blues...
I love it! Keep em comin'

Ed Vadas

At 12:08pm on January 26th, 2008, Stefan Z said…: Jimmy - Very much looking forward to hearing you play in July at the Deep Blues Festival.

At 9:57am on January 26th, 2008, Eric said…: There's a Bentonia Blues Festival planned for June? Jimmy, can you post up some details? Would love to get the info up on the site, so folks can start making plans now!

At 9:50am on January 26th, 2008, Roger Stolle at Cat Head said…: Hey Jimmy, It amazes me that the Blue Front has Wi-Fi. Even your buddy Konkel still uses dial-up. Seriously... keep up the incredible work. 'Can hardly wait for your Bentonia Blues Festival in June. -- Roger at Cat Head