Jazz Articles about T-Model Ford

T-Model Ford: Bad Man

by Robert Jarovi
January 2, 2003

You know you're in for the real deal when 78-year-old James “T-Model" Ford shouts out the low-down truth. After a quick and dirty drum roll on this (studio) live set, he announces: “I'm a tail-dragger from Greenville Mississippi. I'm the boss of the blues. Can't read, can”t write, and don”t been to school a day in my life!" Guitarist/vocalist Ford and his drummer Spam are the only musicians on this disc, aptly entitled Bad Man, but they sound like a ...