Justin Myles Holmes
From PickiPedia: A knowledge base of bluegrass, old time psychedelic jams, and other public domain music
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| Holmes, in Prague, playing a tin whistle and guitar | |
| Scene | St. Pete |
| Instrument | Error creating thumbnail: File missing guitar |
| ENS | justinholmes.eth |
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- ...is probably best known in bluegrass circles as "that throatsinging dude/guy"
- ...released his debut record Vowel Sounds using a blockchain-based application called Revealer, which was written entirely by bluegrassers and which reached the album's funding goal in six days.
- ...plays guitar, mandolin, melodica, and tin whistle in his touring, rotating bluegrass band, The Immutable String band.
- ...has been learning and practicing Tuvan Throatsinging and other overtone singing styles since 2004.
- ...has contributed thousands of patches to open source projects, in Python, PHP, Javascript, Solidity, and other langauges.
- ...first became a prominent performer through software demos, often including writing code in front of a live audience, at python and ethereum events around the world
- ...is an avid cyclist, has trained in acro yoga for several years, and holds a stale brown belt in isshinryu karate.
- ...is a founder, and the first editor, of PickiPedia.
Music
4masks
Holmes's second bluegrass record, 4masks, cut at Tunesmith Studios in Nashville in the spring of 2024. Eight of its eleven tracks are charted and play in Rabbithole, the ensemble lighting up as each picker takes a solo:[unverified]
- Silver 44 · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- Paint Exchange · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- August · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- Barlows (with David Grier) · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- Drowsy Maggie (with David Grier) · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- Swords to Ploughshares · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- Victory · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
- Cicada Song · ▶ listen in Rabbithole[unverified]
Moon Factory, Proximity and Masks are on the record too, and will join the player once someone charts them.[unverified]
Vowel Sounds
Holmes's debut, Vowel Sounds, recorded at Tunesmith in April 2024 and released through Revealer, then on Bandcamp. All ten tracks are out:[unverified]
- Lost · bandcamp[unverified]
- Hell or High Water (A Policeman and a Fortune Teller) · bandcamp[unverified]
- Cork Board · bandcamp[unverified]
- Power Underneath · bandcamp[unverified]
- The Place to Which I'll Return, Someday (return(Place) on the sleeve) · bandcamp[unverified]
- Vowel Sounds · bandcamp[unverified]
- gm☕ · bandcamp[unverified]
- The Morning of The Bank Run · bandcamp[unverified]
- Rollups and Rearview Mirrors · bandcamp[unverified]
- Barlow's Jig · bandcamp[unverified]
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With David Grier
Two guitar duets with David Grier, cut at Tunesmith on 7 May 2024 with Jake Stargel engineering. Both are on 4masks; the video of each is a Release on delivery-kid.[unverified]
Drowsy Maggie · the session · the release |
Barlow's Jig · the session · the release |