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T-Model Ford
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T-Model Ford didn't learn to play guitar until he was 58, and even then the Mississippi lumber-truck driver didn't play the way most people do. In his thick, throbbing amplifier buzz, he lengthens and shortens measures at will and allows the beat to fall wherever he feels it at the moment. Over these extremely elastic rhythms, he growls and mumbles bits of other songs and his own violent warnings against unfaithful women and musical rivals. This unusual approach is no doubt the reason Ford didn't release this debut album, Pee-Wee Get My Gun, until 1997, when he was 76.
Ford grew up, and still lives, in the Mississippi Delta where he and his longtime drummer Spam still play all-night sets at the shack-like juke joints. The Delta is as isolated geographically and economically as it ever was, and idiosyncratic talents like Ford's are allowed to assume their own strange shape without much contact with the music industry. Two tunes on the album feature Delta blues veterans Frank Frost and Sam Carr and one features Ford alone at home, but the other eight capture Ford and Spam playing as a duo as they do in the joints. There's a good-natured humor to the proceedings, for even the violent threats are delivered with a teasing chuckle and the Howlin' Wolf beats are played with a relaxed party atmosphere. Ford lacks the dark urgency and dense brilliance of his Fat Possum label-mates Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, but in a blues field dominated by sound-alikes he's one of a kind. --Geoffrey Himes
Joseph Riccardi
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2025
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frugal3
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2024
Great soundtrack rolling in my car.Recorded live in Delta night clubs..Hypnotic trance.Primitive droning. Get down.Hill Country guitar lessons on YouTube.
Tonon Denis
Reviewed in Germany on May 6, 2024
Von A bis Z alles gut gelaufen ✌️😎
Lone Wolf
Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2020
Great ol bluesman delivers with an attitude
Surfpunk
Reviewed in Germany on March 2, 2014
Respekt für jemandem, der erst mit 58 Jahren angefangen hat,aktiv Musik zu machen. Schnörkelloser, geradliniger Blues, derunter die Haut geht. Ein rauher, ungeschliffener Diamant. Wer die CD angehört hat, weiß woher RocK'n Roll kommt.These are the roots! Leider am 16.07.2013 von uns gegangen.
Wilf
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2007
Yep. He sure is one bad-tempered bad-mouthed old git. God bless him! And his guitar-playing is as mean as he is!This ol' boy is about the same age as BB King, but the similarities end there! There aint nothing clean, sweet or delicate about THIS music, as is the case, I suspect, with the man himself! In keeping with a great blues tradition, he too has served time behind bars for homicide.The sounds and rythms produced by just him and his buddy, Spam, on drums, are fantastic - totally contemporary! Best described, perhaps, as basement or garage-blues. Or grunge-blues. And he sure gives poor Spam a hard time, even though Spam's drumming is excellent - on one track you can hear him say "Spam!! I'm gonna put ma shoes in your heeed"!!As a long time fan of the blues in all its manifestations, I can't describe what a huge kick it gave me to discover that the genre was very much alive and wriggling, and sounding so fresh and modern. And, indeed, that the old Mississippi heartland should still be the well-spring of this marvellous new growth.This is a brilliant CD that has become a great favourite and has favourably impressed numerous friends and acquaintances. I will be acquiring his other CDs in due course. Very highly recommended.
Harvey Blues
Reviewed in Canada on June 23, 2003
For those that 'know' the blues, you don't need a review. To others the blues is more then just a type of music, it's a living entity of sorts, something tangible we feel inside us. It doesn't matter to us if its Chicago, Memphis, electric, delta, jump ect. large band or solo, smooth musicians able to play the same each time or the juke joint and street corner player playing more by "feel", it's the blues and it is alive. Like a family tree it has many branches, with many varied tastes and different interests but they are your family and you love them all, so it is with the blues. If you like blues music of a particular style note that T-Model is of the juke joint/street style playing from feeling inside him and not "polished" and smooth for example like Eddie Floyd. If that's not the type your looking for buy it anyway, listen and let it in, then try other styles. When you start to feel it you'll understand.God bless.
Gene Arlook
Reviewed in Canada on November 24, 2003
I don't know what to say, but as far as Juke-Joint blues goes, this album is perfect, I mean flawless. I first saw T-Model Ford perform live when he came to my college campus. His unorthodox playing style, haunting voice, and lyrics which represent his twisted personality, are all things that make up a great bluesman, a real bluesman. All of these things are expressed to the 10th degree in this album.This is his first album, which he didn't record until he was 75 years old, and in my opinion it is his best. "Cut You Loose" is in my opinion the best track on the album. If your looking for unrefined blues, the kind that makes you want to down a bottle of whiskey and howl at the moon, then this is for you.Also check out his other fantastic albums, "You Better Keep Still," "She Ain't None of Your'n," and "Bad Man." If you enjoy this type of raw music also check out Junior Kimbrough (R.I.P) and R.L. Burnside.
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