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Mississippi bluesman may be the most unlikely Grammy nominee


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Mississippi bluesman may be the most unlikely Grammy nominee
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Updated Mar 12, 2021 7:15 PM EST
About 2,000 miles from Los Angeles, where the red carpet turns to dust, we found this year s most unlikely Grammy nominee. Every day, 73-year-old Jimmy Duck Holmes welcomes customers to his Blue Front Cafe and juke joint in Bentonia, Mississippi. 
Holmes doesn t read music. He doesn t write music. He doesn t write lyrics. Yet he s up for a Grammy Award. 
I mean, I guess it s a divine thing. I don t know, Holmes said. 
Holmes is the last of the old Bentonia bluesmen a brand of blues known for its haunting, hypnotic style. For decades he has played mostly at Blue Front Cafe at events like the annual Bentonia Blues Festival. But a couple years ago, his friend and manager planned a trip to Tennessee, for what Holmes thought was a sightseeing tour. ....

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The Great Migration In Reverse
In the early 1990s, I often took a cheap Southwest Airlines flight from my native Dayton, Ohio to Chicago in search of down-home blues venues like Lee’s Unleaded and Rosa’s. Then, in 1995, my advertising career moved me to St. Louis. A year later, I was sitting in Junior’s Place a rural juke joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi, a.k.a. the middle of nowhere. And my life was changed.
Old bluesmen, young bluesmen. Folk art on the walls, moonshine in plastic jugs. And a local African American audience bursting from an ancient structure clearly built without the aid of an architect. That was Junior’s (which burned down in 2000). ....

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