First up is Holmes singing and playing solo on his variation of Skip James’ classic Hard Times.. As his passion for the guitar developed he became infatuated with pre-war acoustic blues. Cypress Grove Blues (Remastered) 5. 359.3K. The music is a mixture of blues of all sorts, dance tunes and religious songs. I would rather be buried in some cypress grove. 2. Fistful of Desert Blues, the collaboration between Lydia Lunch and guitarist Cypress Grove, features a dozen songs united by two topics: the dark side of love and escape.These broken romances explore in richly atmospheric detail the frustration of unrealized and/or thwarted desire, shattered commitment, betrayal, devastating loneliness, psychic breakdown, and violence. 72-year-old Bentonia, Mississippi bluesman back with a new album produced by Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) with an 11-song set of raw Juke-Joint blues. South Austin Blues 7. In 2010, Cypress Grove and Lydia Lunch recorded A Fistful of Desert Blues. [23], In 2019 he wrote and performed the song "The Singing Tree" for the feature film Lucania by Gigi Roccati. Auerbach's band of pros accentuates Holmes' full-blooded, deeply etched blues, lending dimension to both his guitar and voice. our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Menu. Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is one of the last practitioners of old-fashioned Mississippi blues, playing a variation that belongs to the Yazoo county town of Bentonia. ... 8 Things You Didn't Know About Drake; XXXTENTACION - SAD! Special Rider Blues #5. Cheese makes everything better. Illinois Blues #3. Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is one of the last practitioners of old-fashioned Mississippi blues, … Crow Jane (Remastered) 4. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (Remastered) 8. Train Train 2. Long Road To Travel 9. Goin' Down Album Review – Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes – Cypress Grove – Released via East Eye Sound. Homebound 3. 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Levy Camp Moan 6. Drunken Spree #7. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Cypress Grove Blues. Drunken Spree (Remastered) 6. [7], Ten years after, Pierce died of a brain hemorrhage in 1996, Cypress discovered a tape of them rehearsing songs that Jeffrey had written. Hard Luck Child (Remastered) 7. 1,206 12. more tracks from the album Today! Grove has recorded with a number of musicians including Nick Cave,[17] Debbie Harry,[18][19] Chris Stein, Mark Lanegan, Iggy Pop, Isobel Campbell, Thurston Moore, Warren Ellis, The Raveonettes, Crippled Black Phoenix, Mick Harvey, David Eugene Edwards, Hugo Race, Bertrand Cantat, Barry Adamson, Lydia Lunch, Jim Sclavunos, Mark Stewart and James Johnston. At times, he has Holmes perform with a full band, sometimes emphasizing King's vivid, greasy slide, but at all times, Auerbach lets Holmes set the pace and flavor, grounding every one of the 11 tracks in the spooky stomp of the Delta. 2 (3/30/68) #2. Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues (Remastered) 10. However, his recording for the film went unused, as Beck also did a version of James' song, "I'm So Glad" at the same time.That's the song the movie used. [8][9] This series became known as The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Session Project,[6][10][11][12][13] an endeavour that has currently produced three albums.[14][15][16]. 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. Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues #7. 1,206 12. more tracks from the album Complete Bloomington Indiana Concert, Vol. Cypress Grove Blues. Compartilhar no Facebook Compartilhar no Twitter. This led to an encounter in 1988 with Jeffrey Lee Pierce from The Gun Club who shared similar interests and which grew into a collaboration on an album of roots material, Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee and Cypress Grove with Willie Love in 1992. At the very least, it's certainly the liveliest and boldest album he's made. These were works in progress, and while the quality was deemed too poor for release, Cypress invited a number of musicians to record the songs properly and help him complete them. SONGBOOK. Delicious cheeses that make you do the happy dance. 02 Cypress Grove 2:08 03 Catfish Blues 4:11 04 Goin' Away Baby 4:37 05 Rock Me 4:16 06 Little Red Rooster 3:22 07 Devil Got My Woman 3:18 08 All Night Long 2:59 09 Gonna Get Old Someday 3:59 10 Train Train 2:58 11 Two Women 4:08 Ballin' the Jack 13. It's a modernization of his sound but not a bowdlerization; if anything, it's perhaps the finest realization of Holmes' blues. 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