The historic Blue Front Café in Bentonia will celebrate its 75th anniversary this weekend with a line up of live blues performers that includes the café's owner and proprietor, Grammy-nominated ...

BENTONIA, Miss. -- With calloused hands, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents started more than 70 years ago. He checks the cafe's inventory: jars of pickled ...

BENTONIA, Miss. — With callused hands, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents started more than 70 years ago. He checks the cafe's inventory: jars of pickled ...

In 1948, Mary Holmes saw a need and decided she and her husband Carey Holmes would fill it. Black workers at the cotton gin in the heart of Bentonia, a town that sits on a stretch of U.S. 49 in Yazoo ...

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby calls his latest album an “authentically made modern-day analog field recording of a century-old blues tradition.” The new album, “At the Blue Front,” was released ...

Jimmy Charles Holmes was born in Bentonia, MS in 1947. His father was a farmer and his mother ran a juke joint called the Blue Front Cafe. Jimmy took it over in 1970, and it was at the Blue Front ...

The Blue Front Café is a historic old juke joint made of cinder block in Bentonia, Mississippi on Highway 49, approximately 30 miles northwest of Jackson, which played an important role in the ...

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