Album

Cypress Grove

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes

2019 · Blues

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Cypress Grove by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes

Cypress Grove is a Blues album by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, originally released in 2019. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked, owned by 5 collectors.

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The Mississippi juke-joint icon gets in the studio with Dan Auerbach.

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1Hard Times2:54
  2. A2Cypress Grove2:08
  3. A3Catfish Blues4:11
  4. A4Goin' Away Baby4:36
  5. A5Rock Me4:18

Side B

  1. B1Little Red Rooster3:22
  2. B2Devil Got My Woman3:17
  3. B3All Night Long2:59
  4. B4Gonna Get Old Someday4:00
  5. B5Train Train2:59
  6. B6Two Women4:09

Sound DNA

  • Blues
  • Acoustic & Delta Blues
  • gritty
  • hypnotic
  • southern

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Marcus King appears courtesy of Fantasy Records.
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes would like to thank Dan Auerbach, Vencie Vernado, Michael Schulze, Dick Waterman, Mike Munson, Robert Connely Farr, Drew Bennett, Tom Osborn, and Ted Drozdowski.
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."

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Dan AuerbachGUITAR
  • Eric DeatonBASS
  • Jimmy "Duck" HolmesGUITAR, VOCAL PERCUSSION GUITAR, VOCALS
  • Leon MichelsSAXOPHONE
  • Marcus KingGUITAR
  • Sam BaccoDRUMS, PERCUSSION

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