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Jimmy "Duck" Holmes: Cypress Grove
by C. Michael Bailey
Cypress Grove is the tale of two very different artists following well-tested and successful professional trajectories. While none of the Ur-bluesmen (Charlie Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Skip James, Ishmon Bracey) are living, there remain a few musicians who knew them while they were still alive. One such musician is Jimmy Duck Holmes of Bentonia, Mississippi. One listen to the opening Hard Times" will reveal the Ur-bluesman Holmes knew as one Nehemiah Curtis Skip" James (1902 -1969). The flavor of ...
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