Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Cypress Grove
Easy Eye Sound
the 72-year-old bluesman’s Dan Auerbach-produced authentically captures the raw, explosive sound of the real Mississippi Juke-Joint Blues of today.
"Cypress Grove" is an aural postcard of a typical Saturday night at Holmes’ Blue Front Café, America’s longest operating juke joint. The album is anchored by tradition — which is natural, since Holmes is the last of the original torchbearers of the rural style known as Bentonia blues—but it’s also explosive, raw, and unpredictably in the moment. Featuring an all-star cast of players including Auerbach, Marcus King, Eric Deaton and Sam Bacco, as well as Holmes’ repertoire of songs spanning nearly a century, the adventurous 11-song set is an untamed bridge between the present and the classic sounds of the Delta.
Tracklist
- Hard Times
- Cypress Grove
- Catfish Blues
- Goin' Away Baby
- Rock Me
- Little Red Rooster
- Devil Got My Woman
- All Night Long
- Gonna Get Old Someday
- Train Train
- Two Women