T-Model Ford

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T-Model Ford

Background information
Birth name	James Lewis Carter Ford
Genre(s)	Blues Delta blues
Instrument(s)	Guitar Vocals
Label(s)	Fat Possum

For the motor vehicle, see Ford Model T

T-Model Ford (born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forest, Mississippi, 1924) is a blues musician. He records for the Fat Possum Records label.

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. During the time he spent driving and working in a log camp, T-Model ran into trouble, and was eventually sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder.

He also writes an advice column for Arthur magazine.