T-Model Ford

James Lewis Carter Ford, known as T-Model Ford, was a Mississippi juke joint blues musician who did not begin his recording career until he was in his seventies, becoming one of the signature artists on the Fat Possum label alongside R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. His raw, distorted guitar style and gravel-voiced singing captured the unreconstructed spirit of the deep South juke joint tradition. He claimed to have killed a man, served time at Parchman Farm, and to have been born anywhere between 1920 and 1925. His albums 'Pee-Wee Get My Gun' and 'Bad Man' introduced his wild, anarchic performances to international audiences. He continued touring into his nineties.