POPMATTERS T-Model Ford and Gravelroad: Taledragger By Alan Brown 21 April 2011 T-Model Ford is making up for lost time. Twelve months after his excellent Alive Records debut The Ladies Man, the 90-something bluesman from the North Mississippi hill country is back with a vengeance. And this time he’s not alone. Gravelroad have been backing […]

ALL MUSIC Review by Thom Jurek There is a compelling tension on T-Model Ford’s Taledragger, with his rawer-than-gravel blues style that has always staggered between the styles of his native Mississippi Delta and those of Chicago. This doesn’t mean the record is tense, but merely that its cultural lines blur consistently between the above styles […]

The PHOENIX By BARRY THOMPSON | January 7, 2011 An approximately 90-year-old ex-convict has persuaded hipsters everywhere to pretend to give a fuck about Mississippi blues, and that’s not even the most interesting thing about T-Model Ford. He has lost a testicle, totally killed somebody back when, been arrested a shit-fuck-ton of times, isn’t sure […]