Search - T-Model Ford :: Jack Daniel Time

Low-down blues from a living legend

Jeffrey Konkel | St. Louis, Missouri USA | 07/14/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Full disclosure: I was fortunate enough to be a fly-on-the-wall during the recording sessions for this record, so I might be a little biased. But let's face it, it's hard NOT to get excited about a new T-Model Ford record. The man is an irrepressible, incorrigible force of nature.



As on his previous offerings for Fat Possum, T-Model serves up a healthy dose of raucous, juke-ready blues on Jack Daniel Time. But this record - the inaugural disc for Kari Jones' Mudpuppy Recordings imprint - offers a couple of new twists in the T-Model canon. For starters, it's great to finally hear him on record with harmonica accompaniment. Terry "Harmonica" Bean of Pontotoc, Mississippi blows a mighty harp on several tracks here. Terry and T-Model have known each other for ages and played together for several years prior to T-Model's rise to blues fame in the late '90s. The other great surprise on this disc are the handful of wonderful solo acoustic tracks. The Taildragger of Greenville, Mississippi (as he likes to call himself) has never sounded more intimate or vulnerable. But don't tell T-Model I said that. He's liable to cut me for it."