Currently, Jimmy Duck Holmes is 76 years, 8 months and 27 days old. Jimmy Duck Holmes will celebrate 77rd birthday on a Sunday 28th of July 2024. Below we countdown to Jimmy Duck Holmes upcoming birthday.

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Popular As	Jimmy Duck Holmes
Occupation
Age	76 years old
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Born	July 28, 1947 (Bentonia, Mississippi, USA)
Birthday	July 28
Town/City	Bentonia, Mississippi, USA
Nationality	USA

🌙 Zodiac

Jimmy Duck Holmes’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Jimmy Duck Holmes was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.

Duck was born Jimmy Charles Holmes on July 28, 1947 in Bentonia, Mississippi to Carey and Mary Holmes. His parents opened the Blue Front Cafe in 1948. Duck took over the cafe in 1970. After taking ownership, he encouraged Jack Owens and Bud Spires to play there more often.

Duck was taught the Bentonia style of playing by Henry Stuckey, the originator of the style. With encouragement from Jack and Bud, he honed his style to become one of the leading practitioners of the style.

Duck's first recording date to the late 1970s when he recorded "Devil's Blues" with Cornelius Bright for David Evans. In the 1980s, he began appearing at the Bentonia Blues Festival which had begun as a community event started by his mother, Mary, and grew into one of the longest running blues festival in America.

In 2003, recorded his first album at Pluto Plantation for Shade Tree Records, though the company would fold without ever releasing the recording. In 2005, Jeff Konkel would visit the Blue Front Cafe and record Duck and these recordings would be released in 2006 as Back to Bentonia.

The album would win to Living Blues awards for Duck.In 2007, he followed up with the album, Done Got Tired of Tryin'. The album received critical acclaim and was named by WXPN, World Cafe as one of the top ten albums of the year and was also nominated for a Blues Music Award.