Jimmy “Duck” Holmes: Cypress Grove

Jimmy “Duck” Holmes

Cypress Grove

Easy Eye Sound

In a musical sense, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is a direct descendant of Skip James – Holmes is one of the last surviving practitioners of the Bentonia School of blues guitar playing, as pioneered by the unrecorded Henry Stuckey and passed down to Skip James, Jack Owens and “Duck”; players like Arthur Cruddup, Bukk…