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The must-see show tonight in Ashvegas: T Model Ford at the Grey Eagle

Jason Sandford July 3, 2009

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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3 Comments

chall July 5, 2009

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.

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Brent July 4, 2009

Jack Daniels Time

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Dad July 3, 2009

Man, I shoulda been there…good stuff!

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