Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes Cypress Grove (CD)

(Easy Eye Sound) 11 tracks, digisleeve


The 72-year-old bluesman Jimmy "Duck" Holmes' new album, "Cypress Grove", produced by Dan Auerbach, captures the raw, explosive sound of the real Mississippi Juke-Joint Blues. "Cypress Grove" is an acoustic postcard of a typical Saturday night at Holmes' Blue Front Café, America's longest working juke joint. The album is traditionally anchored - which is natural as Holmes is the last of the original rural style torch runners known as Bentonia blues - but it's also explosive, raw and unpredictable at the moment.

With a top-class cast of players like Auerbach, Marcus King, Eric Deaton and Sam Bacco as well as Holmes' repertoire of songs from almost a century, the adventurous 11-songset is an untamed bridge between the present and the classical sounds of the Delta. Recorded at Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville, TN.