On the Shelf 203: Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Jan. 28th, 2020 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I like all genres, but of course, I like them in my own way.
I do like the Blues, but modern Blues sounds tend to go for slick production, which I am usually not a fan of, but I do like Blues. I used to attend the annual Labor Day Blues Festival in St Louis. I saw a great collection of bands.
One of the more memorable moments was seeing Jimmy "Duck" Holmes. Holmes plays authentic Mississippi Delta blues (specifically Bentonia Blues via Skip James and Jack Owens), and I do mean authentic as Holmes runs the oldest JukeJoint in Mississippi.
With one album for Fat Possum back around 2008, he is fairly obscure to mainstream rock fans. It seems logical and appropriate that he is teaming with Dan Auerbach, Marcus King and Eric Deaton; and finding a wider audience for his music.
Cypress Grove is a pretty solid blues record. Auerbach captures the true blues sound in a record that should be accessible to all rock fans, and an find some appreciation for a true blues hero.
I do like the Blues, but modern Blues sounds tend to go for slick production, which I am usually not a fan of, but I do like Blues. I used to attend the annual Labor Day Blues Festival in St Louis. I saw a great collection of bands.
One of the more memorable moments was seeing Jimmy "Duck" Holmes. Holmes plays authentic Mississippi Delta blues (specifically Bentonia Blues via Skip James and Jack Owens), and I do mean authentic as Holmes runs the oldest JukeJoint in Mississippi.
With one album for Fat Possum back around 2008, he is fairly obscure to mainstream rock fans. It seems logical and appropriate that he is teaming with Dan Auerbach, Marcus King and Eric Deaton; and finding a wider audience for his music.
Cypress Grove is a pretty solid blues record. Auerbach captures the true blues sound in a record that should be accessible to all rock fans, and an find some appreciation for a true blues hero.
