Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: T-Model Ford Title: Bad Man Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Fat Possum Release Date: 9/10/2002 Genres: Alternative Rock, Blues, Pop Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Electric Blues Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 045778036325, 8714092036329 |
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 | T-Model Ford Bad Man Genres: Alternative Rock, Blues, Pop
Legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson has nailed the vibe of this octogenarian Delta bluesman's rag-tag club and juke-joint gigs. That's good for purists, but not necessarily for fans of Ford's previous Fat Possum album... more » |
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Amazon.com Legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson has nailed the vibe of this octogenarian Delta bluesman's rag-tag club and juke-joint gigs. That's good for purists, but not necessarily for fans of Ford's previous Fat Possum albums. The foot-stomping irrationality and whimsical violence of earlier numbers like the barking "To the Left, To the Right" and "If I Had Wings" have been traded for Ford's dusty-throated Howlin' Wolf imitations ("Ask Her for Water" and "Backdoor Man"), low-key dynamics, and meandering tempos. The sole surprise is "The Duke," an instrumental with Dickinson providing moonshine-inspired barrelhouse piano. Strip away Ford's legitimate eccentricities, which the label's house production team has played up in the past, and he's merely a competent guitarist with a drummer-sidekick, Spam, who knows just two patterns. The roughly autobiographical title track does tap Ford's reserve of twisted energy a bit as it totters over a dizzy roadbed of drunken chords and slide licks while he groans about his lost gun. But too often, Ford sounds more tired than tough here. --Ted Drozdowski Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsI'm still a Chicken-Head Man. Brett Lemke | www.maximumink.com | 03/07/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "T-Model Ford has been through the mill more than once, and at 80 is still working hard to get the dying message of the Mississippi Hill Country Blues out to those who will listen. With drummer Spam, James "T-Model" Ford plays an endless boogie reflecting the hardships of being shot, stabbed, poisoned, and working on a chain gang. "Bad Man" is a driving reflection of a man who won't quit, and his interpretation of the chaos around him. Featured with R.L. Burnside in the February 2002 Issue of the New Yorker, T-Model & Spam are currently touring on the Fat Possum Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan. With more stamina than most young artists today, his style is reflective of artists like Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters; but is stripped-down and brutally honest. All the tracks are originals, produced live by Memphis legend Jim Dickinson. It's T-Model, his guitar, Spam and nothing else. T-Model doesn't complain here, it's just his way of saying that he learned the hard way. This album does not reflect a relic of the past, nor does it want sympathy; it's an interpretation of a bluesman that celebrates the will to keep going despite adversity of any kind." Good One When You Need Something Heavy and Real Www.SubjectiveArt.Com | Miami, FL USA | 04/01/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Not for a back ground music for your sophisticated afternoon. Too heavy for that. This one is good for sit-down-and-listen - really listen. He is not singing. He is not playing. Instead, his LIFE is singing and playing, not for you, but for his LIFE itself. It's that kind of music you find in this CD. His LIFE is in it." By far my favorite T-model ford album N. Langston | Sarasota, Florida United States | 07/01/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "When T-model ford get's going he's unstoppable His raw riff oriented Guitar and amazingly raw voice go together perfictly. On most T-Model ford albums there are couple songs that arn't really that good and make the album alittle less enjoyable. But there is none of that on this record. Like T-Model himself say on this Record, "That's some good soundin' music there""
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