Going to town

The Holmes Brothers at the Ark

by Whit Hill

posted 4/15/2006

After a surfeit of sad, pretty, reflective, brainy, wordy, sarcastic, traditional, way-out, and heartfelt folk songs, the Holmes Brothers simply took their places onstage at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, opened their mouths, and took 3,000 folkies to town. Wendell Holmes (guitar and voice), Sherman Holmes (bass and vocals), and Willie "Popsy" Dixon (drums,

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