Biography for
T-Model Ford More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

1924, Forest, Mississippi, USA

Birth Name

James Lewis Carter Ford

Nickname

The Taildragger

Mini Biography

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 has recorded four fabulously lowdown rough and dirty albums for 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 brings a gloriously raw and blunt ferocity to Mississippi Delta blues music that's both passionate and powerful in equal measure. T-Model appears 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 Ford lives in Greenville, Mississippi with his girlfriend Stella.

IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders

Trivia

His father was a sharecropper.

Personal Quotes

I hit Greenville in 1953 and so far I love it.

[on how often he's been in jail] Every Saturday night there for awhile.

[on his younger hell-raising days] I could really stomp ass back then, stomp it good. I was a sure enough dangerous man.