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T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

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T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 765 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 318 Mb | Scans ~ 412 Mb
Blues, Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues, Electric Delta Blues | Time: 02:19:18

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist T-Model Ford (James Lewis Carter Ford) played a raw-edged, visceral style of blues from the Mississippi Delta, accompanied much of the time by his drummer, Spam (Tommy Lee Miles). Ford caught a break when he opened up on a national tour for Buddy Guy and his band, playing respectable theaters and some festivals, but he was chronically under-recorded. He began playing guitar late in life and hadn't really toured much outside the Mississippi Delta until the 1990s and into the new millennium. He was well received at Antone's nightclub in Austin during the South by Southwest Music Festival, at the Chicago Blues Festival, and on tour with Guy and his band. When not on the road, playing mostly blues nightclubs, T-Model Ford and Spam set their instruments and amps up on Nelson Street in Greenville, Mississippi, where they would play for as much as eight hours straight. Ford's sound was raw, unadulterated Delta blues, and the music on his albums tends to sound sparse but is very rhythmic, given that his sole accompanist was the drummer Spam. His albums, all for the Fat Possum label, now based in Los Angeles, include Pee-Wee Get My Gun (1997), You Better Keep Still (1999), She Ain't None of Your'n (2000), and Bad Man (2002). After a six-year break from recording – though he toured regularly – Ford returned to the bins on the Alive imprint with Ladies Man in 2010; he followed it with Taledragger in 2011. Two years later, he died at home of respiratory failure after a short time in hospice care.

Biography by Richard Skelly, Allmusic.com

T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)





T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford - Bad Man (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 236 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 94 Mb | Scans ~ 81 Mb
Label: Fat Possum Records | # 80363-2 | Time: 00:41:12

What goes around comes around in the blues world. Although T-Model Ford is from Mississippi, not all of his influences are Mississippi Delta influences – his dusky, moody electric blues also owe something to Chicago (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf), Detroit (John Lee Hooker), and Texas (Lightnin' Hopkins). Of course, Waters, Hooker, and Wolf were all born in Mississippi; they were Southern bluesmen who moved north, plugged in, and became identified with electric post-World War II Northern blues. But Hooker wasn't born in Detroit any more than Waters and Wolf were born in Chicago. So again, what goes around comes around in the blues world. Whether you describe Ford's approach as Northern or Southern – and truth be told, it's a combination of the two – Bad Man is a compelling slice of tough, gritty, genuinely lowdown blues. The things that make Ford so compelling are his soulfulness and his lack of slickness. The singer/guitarist doesn't clean things up; he just digs in, lets the emotion flow, and tells you exactly how he feels. As a result, tunes like "Black Nanny," "Ask Her for Water," and "Let the Church Roll On" have the sort of rawness and honesty that are missing from some of the slicker blues albums of the 21st century. Equally memorable is Ford's performance of Wolf's "Back Door Man"; although this Chicago blues standard has been recorded countless times, Ford manages to make the tune sound vital and alive rather than worn out and overdone. Bad Man (which is Ford's fourth Fat Possum outing) may not be the most innovative or groundbreaking release of 2002, but it certainly doesn't come across as contrived or formulaic either. And it's a disc that is easily recommended to anyone who likes his/her electric blues rugged, unpolished, and totally sincere.

Review by Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com

Tracklist:

01. Ask Her For Water (04:36)
02. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (04:22)
03. Yes, I'm Standing (04:37)
04. Bad Man (03:31)
05. Somebody's Knockin' (04:09)
06. Let The Church Roll On (02:59)
07. Black Nanny (04:38)
08. Backdoor Man (03:15)
09. The Duke (03:14)
10. Sallie Mae (05:27)


Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 4. July 2014, 11:55

T-Model Ford / Bad Man

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T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)




T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford - The Ladies Man (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 273 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 131 Mb | Scans ~ 127 Mb
Label: Alive Naturalsound | # 0103-2 | Time: 00:57:28

On The Ladies Man, T-Model Ford comes off more than ever as a living testament to the sustaining power of the blues. Pushing 90 (though his exact age is a bone of contention), Ford had just experienced severe heart problems and had a pacemaker installed when he recorded the album, but to say he sounds full of life here would be an understatement. It doesn't hurt that Ford was recorded in the optimum manner to capture his real, raw Mississippi sound – he laid down these tracks live in the studio, accompanied with just the right amount of looseness by members of his frequent backup band GravelRoad and others, in one session, with no overdubs or second takes. Snatches of his conversations with the musicians are interspersed between some of the tracks, filling in the picture with even more vivid colors; he reminisces about being inspired to play by the music of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, enthusiastically shouts "It's Jack Daniels time!" (an album photo shows him happily hoisting a bottle of Jack), and instructs the band to "Let it all hang in, don't let it hang out." Playing tunes associated with Muddy Waters ("Two Trains") and Muddy's right-hand man Little Walter ("My Babe"), and revisiting quirky original tunes he has recorded in the past like opening cut "Chicken Head Man," Ford brings to bear his rough-and-ready vocal style and forceful acoustic fingerpicking with an intensity that suggests a performer a good few decades younger. Ford first came to fame during the ‘90s heyday of Fat Possum Records, alongside Mississippi hill country contemporaries like R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, but at a time when many of his peers have died off and even Fat Possum has embraced rock over blues, Ford's first studio album for a new label shows him to be not just a survivor, but a solid rock supplying a living, breathing foundation for his brand of blues.

Review by James Allen, Allmusic.com

Tracklist:

01. Chicken Head Man (07:50)
02. Two Trains (03:57)
03. I'm Coming To Kick Yer Asses (02:00)
04. I Love You Baby (06:43)
05. 44 Blues (03:26)
06. Sallie Mae (06:48)
07. My Babe (02:49)
08. I Was Born In A Swamp (01:56)
09. That's Alright (06:20)
10. Love Me All Night Long (05:12)
11. Hip Shaking Woman (10:23)


Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 29. March 2015, 17:05

T-Model Ford / The Ladies Man

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T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)




T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford & GravelRoad - Taledragger (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 93 Mb | Scans ~ 204 Mb
Label: Alive Records | # ALIVE 0115-2 | Time: 00:40:37

Recorded during a 14 show US tour in 2010, the groove on this new studio album is pure T-Model Ford. Backed by his regular touring band GravelRoad, and with stellar guest appearances by Brian Olive and Matthew Smith, ''Taledragger'' is a perfect party album with the feel and honesty of a night at the juke joint. Despite a mild stroke in April 2010, T-Model still plays with an intensity and consistency that belies his age. Now 90-years old, the self proclaimed ''Boss of the Blues'' continues to show his strengths. Playing the blues is his life, he knows no other way. The well-documented Bad Man can be noted to, at times, simply have it bad, man.

There is a compelling tension on T-Model Ford's Taledragger, with his rawer-than-gravel blues style that has always staggered between the styles of his native Mississippi Delta and those of Chicago. This doesn't mean the record is tense, but merely that its cultural lines blur consistently between the above styles as well as those of his sidemen – his backing band of the last few years, GravelRoad, is augmented by guest musicians from Detroit – who all came of age in the post-punk to indie rock eras. Produced by Brian Olive, Matthew Smith, and Arthur Alexander in Glendale, CA, the set was mixed by Jim Diamond in Detroit. Suffice to say, the addition of baritone saxophone, Hammond B-3, and 12-string acoustic guitars to these extremely basic tunes makes for interesting listening. The set opens with "Same Old Train," a choogling shuffle that is "Mystery Train" with (some) different words. Ford's delightfully rough, front-charging guitar playing is supported by Stefan Zillioux's in-the-pocket pulse that bass and drums follow in sync, but Olive's upright piano is off the beat, following Ford; the entire tune ultimately slurs drunkenly. The lyrics refer to the record's muse: "a big legged mama" who appears often. On "Someone's Knocking on My Door" (one of the album's many death meditations), Ford channels the spirits of his old friend Junior Kimbrough and Howlin' Wolf in a hypnotic two-chord shuffle. The band psychs it up with Smith playing a sinister, snaky B-3, augmented by jangling single-string guitar lines played between beats; there's a stinging lead break with enough echo to add a trippy dimension. The tension on this set reveals itself best in the readings of "How Many More Years" and "I Worn My Body for So Long." The former is swampy and disorienting, full of wah-wah guitars, stuttering drums, and a heavy echo on Ford's voice. He sings with an amused acceptance of the inevitable, not dread – though the accompaniment does its best to evoke it. This is true in the latter as well, with shimmering acoustic slide and fuzzed-out bass work by Smith. "Big Legged Woman" is an all-out party rave-up with everything becoming an orgy of sound more befitting a Detroit barroom than a Delta juke joint – and does it ever work! What Ford, Olive, Smith, Alexander, and the rest have wrought on Taledragger is a modern blues album with primitive roots. The tension works. It's a far more interesting recording because of its "impurities" – paradoxically, making it a far more "authentic" blues record because it is linked to multiple historic traditions simultaneously. It's exponentially more enjoyable and exciting as blues than anything coming out of Chicago in the 21st century.

Review by Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com

Tracklist:

01. Same Old Train (07:04)
02. It's Coming Home (03:41)
03. Someone's Knocking On My Door (05:12)
04. How Many More Years (05:38)
05. Big Legged Woman (07:55)
06. I Worn My Body For So Long (04:26)
07. Red Dress (03:16)
08. Little Red Rooster (03:14)


Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 27. August 2014, 23:15

T-Model Ford & Gravelroad / Taledragger

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T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)

T-Model Ford - Albums Collection 2002-2011 (3CD)




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