Blues

T-Model Ford - Pee-Wee Get My Gun (1997)

2011-03-08T09:29:21Z

T-Model Ford - Pee-Wee Get My Gun (1997)


1. Cut You Loose
2. T-Model Theme Song
3. Been A Long Time
4. Turkey and the Rabbit (selected track)
5. Can't Be Touched
6. Nobody Gets Me Down
7. I'm Insane                play
8. Where You Been
9. Feels So Bad
10. Sugar Farm
11. Let Me In                play

Personnel: 
T Model Ford (vocals, guitar); 
Frank Frost (keyboards); 
Spam, Sam Carr (drums)

With band members named T Model Ford (guitar, vocals, songs) and Spam (drums), the casual observer might mistake PEE WEE GET MY GUN for a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion-style re-appropriation of the blues. But this debut album is straight-up and stripped-down blues, Ford's guitar and Spam's drums joined only by occasional and unobtrusive piano and organ by Frank Frost.

Ford's voice is a deceptively simple instrument, equally capable of the controlled emotion of Delta blues pioneers like Son House or even Robert Johnson, and, when necessary, the squalling yowls of R.L. Burnside or even Captain Beefheart, as on the powerful "I'm Insane." The songs are mostly originals, based on traditional Delta instrumental forms. And lyrically, though the songs are couched in more modern terms, they still explore the same kinds of cultural details that make the older Delta blues chestnuts resonate. PEE WEE GET MY GUN is a strong and intriguing debut.

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T-Model Ford And Gravelroad - Taledragger (2011)

2011-01-26T19:53:25Z

T-Model Ford And Gravelroad - Taledragger (2011)


1. Same Old Train
2. Comin' Back Home
3. Someone's Knocking On My Door
4. How Many More Years
5. Big Legged Woman
6. I Worn My Body For So Long
7. Red Dress                   play
8. Little Red Rooster          play

Personnel:
T-Model Ford (vocals, guitar)
Brian Olive (guitar, baritone saxophone, piano, organ)
Stefan Zillioux (guitar)
Matthew Smith (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, slide guitar)
Mike Weinel (slide guitar)
Martin Reinsel (drums).

James Lewis Carter Ford (born c. 1920, Forest, Mississippi) is an American blues musician, using the stage name T-Model Ford. Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early seventies and has continuously recorded for the Fat Possum Records label. His musical style melds traditional Chicago blues and juke joint blues styles with the rawness of Delta blues and a rebellious attitude. Alternately known as "The Taildragger", Ford, in reference to his age, has been known to tell studio musicians, "T-Model Ford is going to remember you sorry fuckers how it's done." In 2008, Ford worked with the Seattle-based band, GravelRoad. The project began as a single event, with Ford needing assistance to play the Deep Blues Festival in Minnesota in July 2008. GravelRoad, long time fans of Ford and performers already scheduled for the Deep Blues Festival, agreed to provide support for a ten show US tour for Ford through July. GravelRoad continues to be T-Model's touring band, and is scheduling a Summer Tour for 2010.

T-Model had a pacemaker inserted at the end of that tour, but appeared on stage again with GravelRoad in 2008, 2009 and 2010. T-Model Ford suffered a stroke in the Spring of 2010, and despite difficulty with right-hand mobility, managed to complete a very successful Summer 2010 tour with his backing-band GravelRoad. This tour concluded with a high profile appearance at Pickathon Festival and a private recording party back in GravelRoad's hometown of Seattle. In addition, T-Model Ford and GravelRoad spent an afternoon in Los Angeles and recorded what will become a new album, to be released on Alive Naturalsound Records early 2011.

T-Model Ford and GravelRoad were hand picked by acclaimed American Independent film-maker Jim Jarmusch to open the 3rd day of the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in New York over Labor Day weekend, 2010. So if you enjoy juke-joint jostlin’ and smoky-cool Delta blues, or if you’re captivated by their novelty, you’ll dig Taledragger. Especially “How Many More Years.” Hinging on a distorted, crunchy, low-end riff, it makes a perfect anthem for shooting heroin in a dive-bar bathroom.

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T-Model Ford - The Ladies Man (2010)

2011-01-26T10:07:51Z

T-Model Ford - The Ladies Man (2010)


01 - Chicken Head Man 
02 - Two Trains 
03 - I'm Coming To Kick Yer Asses       play
04 - I Love You Baby 
05 - 44 Blues 
06 - Sallie Mae 
07 - My Babe                            play
08 - I Was Born In A Swamp 
09 - That's Alright 
10 - Love Me All Night Long 
11 - Hip Shaking Woman

Musicians:
T-Model Ford – Guitar, Vocals
Dustin Arbuckle - Harmonica
Starr Harris - Percussion
Aaron Moreland - Guitar
Martin Reinsel - Percussion
Stefan Zillioux – Guitar

Bluesman T-Model Ford (James Lewis Carter Ford) started playing late in life, releasing his debut album Pee-Wee Get My Gun in 1997 at the age of 74 years (give or take a year or two). Ford's unique take on the music is an inspired mix of rough-n-tumble, Delta-born juke-joint jams and stripped-down Chicago style blues, with a side helping of the hypnotic Mississippi Hill country rhythm. During his lengthy life, Ford has lived the blues as well as sung about them...he's worked in sawmills and logging camps, driven a truck, and experienced more than his share of run-ins with "Johnny Law."

T-Model Ford's The Ladies Man. --While much of Ford's back catalog has the bluesman accompanied only by his drummer Spam, working with a full band has done little to temper the primal fury of Ford's mournful wail or sparse, albeit complex style of guitarplay. The sound of "Two Trains," for instance, is forged in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, Ford's vocals accompanied only by his fractured chords and Arbuckle's gritty harp blowing. "I'm Coming To Kick Yer Asses" is an interesting spoken-word interlude with Ford talking about the early days of his career.

With the spry, mid-tempo "44 Blues," Ford's voice raises to an almost-yodel as he embroiders his angular guitar notes on top of Moreland's circular rhythm, Arbuckle's harp embellishing the song with Sonny Boy Williamson charm. "That's Alright" is an engaging shuffle with a slow-walking guitar line and staggered percussion that's heavy on the brushes, the instrumentation complimented by Ford's soulful vocals on intermittent verses. The album-closing "Hip Shaking Woman" is the sort of indigo-hued blues on which Ford has built his reputation, a juke-joint rocker with heavy guitar, almost shouted vocals, a slight boogie rhythm and, lurking near the surface, the shadow of menace.

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