If you want to see one of the last great Mississippi blues men, then get your heine down to the Grey Eagle tonight to see T Model Ford. He’s a legend. Do not miss this. I’m telling you.
July 3 – 9PM Asheville, Grey Eagle. Blues singer and guitarist T-Model Ford was born as James Lewis Carter Ford in 1924 in the small rural town of Forest, Mississippi. By age eleven T-Model was plowing a field behind a mule on his family’s farm. Ford got a job at a local saw mill in his early teens. T-Model eventually secured an even better job as a truck driver for a bigger lumber company. Moreover, Ford was sentenced to a chain gang for ten years for murder. Luckily, he was released after serving only two years of his sentence. Tickets:$10 advance / $12 day of show.
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T-Model is the last of the original N. Mississippi Hill Country style blues players. I’ve seen him before, but I still hated to be out of town and miss this.
Jack Daniels Time
Man, I shoulda been there…good stuff!