Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes – All Night Long

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Track Listing:
1. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - 4:02   2. Train Train - 4:34   3. I'm Going To Leave You 6:53   4. All Night Long - 3:56   5. Someday Baby - 6:45   6. Blues Ain't Nothing - 7:10   7. Red Rooster - 5:07   8. Devil Got My Woman - 5:39   9. Don't Get Mad - 4:59   10. Rock Me - 5:01   11. Six Little Puppies - 4:28   12. Hurry Hurry - 3:32   13. Rock Me [Take 2] - 4:11

Personnel:
Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes (vocals, guitar)

Reviews:  

1. lahoradelblues.com - 2013.10.05
Blues auténtico, profundo y lleno de intensidad, a cargo de un bluesman de sesenta y seis años con un bagaje tan importante a sus espaldas que le convierten en un verdadero sobreviviente y representante del mas puro estilo de blues de Betonia. Discípulo directo de dos de los más grandes y reputados creadores de dicho estilo, como son Skip James y Jack Owens. Estamos hablando del cantante y guitarrista Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes, quien se ha pasado una buena parte de su vida recorriendo los ‘juke joints’ del Mississippi para entretener al público con su arte y su sabiduría, todo ello a través de su voz, su guitarra y sus canciones. Jimmy regenta también su propio ‘juke joint’, el Blue Front Café, que actualmente, es uno de los últimos locales de estas características que quedan en el Mississippi,. En este álbum váis a descubrir todo el aroma, la firmeza, el hipnotismo y la cadencia del blues más auténtico de Betonia y ello con el único respaldo de la voz y la guitarra acústica de Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes. El magnífico trabajo de Hannes Folterbauer, propietario de Wolf Records, es digno de admirar, pues se ha dedicado con amor a preservar los down home blues de tipos como Jimmy Holmes y otros muchos que figuran en su catálogo. Si no fuera por el buen hacer de compañías como Wolf, los aficionados no podríamos degustar todo el arte y el sentimiento de estos músicos, la mayoría desconocidos mas allá de sus lugares de nacimiento o condados. MUY BUENO. 

Real genuine deep and intense blues by a sixty-six years old bluesman with a huge background behind him, which makes him become a true survivor, representing the most pure Betonia blues style. He is also a direct follower of two of the most reputed great names of such style, Skip James and Jack Owens. We are talking about singer and guitarist Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes, who has spent a good part of his life going around Mississippi juke joint to delight the audience with his clever artistic qualities, thanks to his expressive voice, his guitar and his songs. Jimmy also runs his own juke joint, the Blue Front Cafe, which is currently one of the last ones that still remains open in Mississippi area. In this album you will discover all the flavour, strength, hypnotism and cadence of the most genuine Betonia blues, with only Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes voice and acoustic guitar. The incredible work of Hannes Folterbauer, Wolf Records owner, deserves a huge recognition, as he has been completely dedicated to preserve with great care and love the work of down home blues guys like Jimmy Holmes and many others listed in Wolf catalogue. If there were not such great record companies like Wolf, fans could not taste the fine art and amazing feeling of musicians like Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes, most of them quite unknown except in their birth places or in their own counties. VERY GOOD.
Here comes a real bluesman, a blues musician who plays Mississippi downhome music and he does it from the most open clear and straight perspective, because he has soaked up and lived with blues from his early childhood. Singer and guitarist Pat Thomas was born in Yazoo City, Mississipp forty-one years ago His father was the great James 'Son' Thomas, a real outstanding legend of rural blues in Leland, Mississippi. When he was only ten years old, Pat was already playing with his father,. In fact they performed in practically all Mississippi blues and other surrounding states festivals, from Sunflower River Blues Festival to King Biscuit Festival. In this album, Pat Thomas displays a collection of classic country and back porch blues, with his special, usual and tiresome way to keep the beat and strum guitar strings. This is work of an old time bluesman, a great musician with an amazing warm originality, which becomes very difficult to find nowadays. VERY GOOD.

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