Sample quote from the man himself, "T-Model Ford is going to remember you sorry ****ers how it's done". Fat Possum recording artist and Mississippi blues legend T-Model "Taildragger" Ford, still in rude health, is very definitely THE most hardcore and authentic Mississippi gangster blues player still playing. Born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, Mississippi, he thinks he's seventy-five but isn't sure. Ploughing fields behind a mule on the family farm by age eleven, and then sawmill duties in the Delta near Greenville. Between that and working in a log camp he served two years of a ten year sentence on a chain-gang. For murder. "I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good", he says, "I was a-sure-enough-dangerous man." Appearing with longtime drummer Spam (Tommy Lee Miles to the authorities), T-Model is the opposite of the romantic bluesman image. No a-strumming on the porch in the evening sun; he's still playing on Nelson Street, often up to eight hours a night.  Want the real thing? He's here tonight ...

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