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Story by Kerri Westenberg and Simon Peter Groebner • Star Tribune Illustration by Chiara Ghigliazza • Special to the Star Tribune April 23, 2021 Simon Peter Groebner • Star Tribune Illustration by Chiara Ghigliazza April 23, 2021 At MSP and airports across the country, security checkpoints are newly abuzz. Car rentals are selling out. Gas prices are rising as road trips rev up. Travel search site Kayak is seeing a steady rise in queries for summer travel. As more Americans get fully vaccinated, they are casting aside cabin fever and for the first time in over a year acting on their vis...

CBS News Mississippi bluesman may be the most unlikely Grammy nominee Last 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 — ...

By: Associated Press AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis Bluesman Jimmy "Duck" Holmes plays a quick ditty at the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia, Miss., Jan. 21, 2021. Holmes 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 eggs, beef jerky, pork hocks. He tends to the wood-burning stove, made from an oil-field pipe. And every morning, he eventually settles in on a stool behind the counter, waiting — hoping — that someone ...

In the small town of Bentonia, Mississippi, juke joint owner Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is the last carrier of a dying musical storytelling tradition.

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. H...