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Jimmy "Duck" Holmes Announces New Record "It Is What It Is" On Blue Front Records, Tour Dates

4/19/2016

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by Sharon Gissy

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, celebrated country bluesman, has announced the launch of his new label Blue Front Records, and its first release, his own It Is What It Is. Holmes is the last bluesman to have been taught by Henry Stuckey, who also taught Skip James and Jack Owens. The particular dark, haunting brand of blues called Bentonia blues that Stuckey developed involved an open D-minor and E-minor tuning he learned from British soldiers during World War I. Skip James, Jack Owens, and others who followed used this method to create the brooding country blues that Holmes now plays and seeks to release through Blue Front Records.

Blue Front Records is named for the Blue Front Cafe, a juke joint in Mississippi founded by Jimmy's parents Mary and Carey Holmes. The cafe became famous for featuring Bentonia blues when Jimmy took over in 1970 and frequently met with Jack Owens, Bud Spires, and Tommy West to play for each other. Jimmy's goal with Blue Front Records is to help record and preserve the acclaimed Bentonia blues sound for future generations.

It Is What It Is is due out on June 17th. Jimmy frequently tours with his legendary sound, and tour dates are available below.

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes on Tour:


April 16                Juke Joint Festival                                        Clarksdale, MS
April 24                New Orleans Jazz Festival                            New Orleans, LA
April 24                Chickie Wah Wah                                          New Orleans, LA
April 28                Smoot’s                                                        Natchez, MS (Album Preview party)
April 29                Beale Street Music Festival                         Memphis, TN
June 10                TBA                                                              Lexington, KY
June 17                Blue Front Café                                             Bentonia, MS – (Release Party)
June 18                44th Annual Bentonia Blues Festival            Bentonia, MS
June 25 – July 3    Tour                                                               Bolivia
July 8 – 9                Briggs Farm Blues Festival                        Nescopeck, PA
July 22, 23             John Brown’s Smokehouse                           Long Island City, NY
July 31 – Aug 7     Port Townsend Blues School & Festival        Port Townsend, WA
August 12-14        Sunflower Blues Festival                               Clarksdale, MS 
October 8             Woodville Music Festival                                Woodville, MS
October 15            Crescent City Blues & BarBQ                        New Orleans, LA



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