Blues and Roots Music Links

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." -- John Muir

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes was born in 1947, and is the proprietor of one of the oldest juke joints in Mississippi, the Blue Front in Bentonia. He plays a distinctive style known as Bentonia blues made famous by Skip James and Jack Owens.

Artists
Alejandro Escovedo Ana Popovic Anne Harris B.B. King Bettye Lavette Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys Big Smith Billy Joe Shaver Bill Kirchen Black Joe Lewis Bobby Rush Bobby Watson Buckwheat Zydeco Buddy Guy Carolina Chocolate Drops Carrie Rodriguez Cassandra Wilson Cathy Richardson Band Cindy Cashdollar Cowboy Junkies Dale Watson Dave Alvin Dave Rawlings Machine Eilen Jewell The Fabulous Thunderbirds Fernando Jones The Flatlanders	Fruteland Jackson Gary Clark Jr. Gillian Welch Guitar Shorty Imelda May Jakob Dylan James Cotton Janiva Magness Jenny Lewis Jimmie Vaughan Joanne Shaw Taylor Joe Ely Joe Louis Walker John Hiatt Johnny Winter Junior Brown Justin Robinson Karrin Allyson Kasey Chambers Kelly Willis Lee Rocker Lonnie Brooks Los Lobos Los Straitjackets Lucinda Williams Lurrie Bell Lyle Lovett	Maceo Parker Magic Slim Michelle Malone Michelle Shocked Nanci Griffith Neko Case The Nighthawks Otis Clay Patricia Barber Ray Wylie Hubbard Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band Robert Cray Robbie Fulks Rosanne Cash Rosie Flores Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles Shelby Lynne Shemekia Copeland Sonny Landreth Steve Earle Sue Foley Super Chikan Valerie June Wanda Jackson Watermelon Slim Webb Wilder

Throughout the mid to late 1950s, blues, country, and rockabilly artists, including Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis, recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee.