T-Model Ford

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T-Model Ford at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar in Charlottesville , Virginia on March 1, 2010

T-Model Ford (actually James Lewis Carter Ford , * 1920-1925, probably in 1924 in Forest Mississippi ; † 16th July 2013 in Greenville , Mississippi) was an American blues - guitarist , singer and songwriter .

Life

According to his own statements, Ford grew up the son of a tenant who neither went out nor let him go to school until he was 17 years old. He spent the first part of his life as a worker in various jobs, such as B. Field workers, workers in a sawmill and later as foremen. He is said to have spent two years of his life in prison for killing a man, according to his own statement it was self-defense. Up to his 58th birthday he only dealt with music as a listener, only then did his fifth wife give him a guitar and he began to teach himself to play the guitar. His recording career only began when he was around 75 years old.

Outside of the Mississippi Delta , he began touring in the 1990s. His national breakthrough came when he appeared in the opening act for Buddy Guy . When he wasn't touring the blues clubs, he and his drummer Spam (Tommy Lee Miles) performed on Nelson Street in Greenville, Mississippi, where they played for up to eight hours. T-Model Ford died after a series of strokes , as one of its record labels, Fat Possum Records, announced. According to official records, he died at the age of 94.

Discography

  • Pee-Wee Get My Gun - 1997
  • You Better Keep Still - 1999
  • She Ain't None of Your'n - 2000
  • Bad Man - 2002
  • Don't Get Out Talkin 'It - 2008
  • Jack Daniel Time - 2008
  • The Ladies Man - 2010
  • Taledragger - 2011 with GravelRoad

The albums until 2008 appeared on Fat Possum Records , the albums from 2010 appeared on Alive Naturalsound Records .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T-Model Ford: A 'bad man with a guitar'. gomemphis.com, March 5, 2010, accessed on August 9, 2010 (English): "various sources put his birth date somewhere between 1920 and 1925"
  2. ^ T-Model Ford: A 'bad man with a guitar'. gomemphis.com, March 5, 2010, accessed August 9, 2010 : "Born James Lewis Carter Ford ... in Forest, Miss."
  3. ↑ Richard Skelly: T-Model Ford. Allmusic.com, accessed on August 9, 2010 (English): "Born James Lewis Carter Ford on 1925 in Greenville, MS"
  4. ^ Obituary in USAToday
  5. ^ Andrew Perry: I killed a man, then I learned the blues. Daily Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed August 9, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Richard Skelly: T-Model Ford. Allmusic.com, accessed on August 9, 2010 (English).
  7. ↑ Blues mystery "T-Model" Ford died at 94. In: Zeit Online , dpa report from June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ Fat Possum Records Homepage (English)
personal data
SURNAME T-Model Ford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ford, James Lewis Carter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest, Mississippi , USA
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2013
Place of death Greenville, Mississippi