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James Lewis Carter Ford (born c. 1920, Forest, Mississippi, United States)[1] is an American blues musician, using the name T-Model Ford.[2] Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early seventies, and has continuously recorded for the Fat Possum label, then switched to Alive Naturalsound Records. His musical style melds the rawness of Delta blues[2] with Chicago blues and juke joint blues styles. According to records, Ford's year of birth is between 1921 and 1925. According to his half-sister (still alive in Tennessee), he was born in 1922.[citation needed] Starting with an abusive father who had permanently injured him at eleven, Ford has lived his entire life in a distressed and violent environment, towards which he is quite indifferent.[6] Ford, an illiterate, had been working in various blue collar jobs as early as his preteen years, such as plowing fields, working at a sawmill, and later in life becoming a lumber company foreman and then a truck driver. At this time Ford was sentenced to ten years on a chain gang for murder. Allegedly Ford was able to reduce his sentence to two years.[1] He ensuingly spent many of his years in conflicts with law enforcement. Currently, Ford resides in Greenville, Mississippi and for a time wrote an advice column for Arthur magazine. Reportedly, he has twenty six children.[6][7] T-Model Ford at Tea Bazaar in Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 1, 2010 According to music writer Will Hodgkinson, who

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Taledragger

Let's Move - A Heavy Blues Collection

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Taledragger [Dave Cooley #1]

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Let's Move: A Heavy Blues Collection

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Mojo Presents Let's Move - A Heavy Blues Collection

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Mojo Presents Let's Move

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Let's Move

Mojo presents: Let's Move - A Heavy Blues Collection

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Spring 2009 Tour

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Mojo Presents Let's Move: A Heavy Blues Collection

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2013-03-30 1958

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Taledragger [CD]

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