This Thursday February 25th T-Model Ford will be performing at PA's Lounge in Somerville. For those of you who do not know Mr. Ford, he one fantastic classic-style blues musician who is just too badass to leave this world behind.
T-Model is on Fat Possum Records, the same label as the Heartless Bastards and Andrew Bird. Here is an excerpt from Fat Possum's page about Mr. Ford:
T-Model's credentials are impeccable; if anything he's over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. T-Model thinks he's seventy-five but isn't sure. He was plowing a field behind a mule on his family's farm by age eleven, and in his early teens he secured a job at a local sawmill. He excelled and was later recruited by a foreman from a bigger lumber company in the Delta, near Greenville, and eventually got promoted to truck driver. Between that and working in a log camp T-Model was sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder. He lucked out and was released after serving two. He says, grinning, "I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enough- dangerous man."
You can still buy tickets here, but there are very few left so HURRY!
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