T-Model Ford(1924-2013)
- Soundtrack
Blues singer and guitarist T-Model Ford was born as James Lewis Carter
Ford in 1924 in the small rural town of Forest, Mississippi. By age
eleven T-Model was plowing a field behind a mule on his family's farm.
Ford got a job at a local saw mill in his early teens. T-Model
eventually secured an even better job as a truck driver for a bigger
lumber company. Moreover, Ford was sentenced to a chain gang for ten
years for murder. Luckily, he was released after serving only two years
of his sentence. In addition, T-Model also worked at a logging camp. He
recorded four fabulously lowdown rough and dirty albums for the label
Fat Possum Records: "Pee-Wee Get My Gun," "You Better Keep Still," "She
Ain't None of Your'n," and "Bad Man." With his savage moan of a ragged
voice and gritty guitar playing style, Ford brought a gloriously raw
and blunt ferocity to Mississippi Delta blues music that was both
passionate and powerful in equal measure. T-Model appeared as himself
in the charming comedy short feature "Lohues Gets the Blues" and the
excellent documentary "You See Me Laughin'." In 2008 Ford released the
albums "Jack Daniel Time" and "Don't Get Out Talkin' It." T-Model lived
in Greenville, Mississippi with his girlfriend Stella. He died on July
16, 2013 in Greenville.