{"id":1466,"date":"2021-04-29T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=1466"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:16:18","slug":"t-model-ford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=1466","title":{"rendered":"T-Model Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>James Lewis Carter Ford<\/strong>\u00a0(probably June 24, 1923\u00a0\u2013 July 16, 2013) was an\u00a0American blues\u00a0musician, using the name\u00a0<strong>T-Model Ford<\/strong>.\u00a0Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early 70s, and continuously recorded for the\u00a0Fat Possum label, then switched to\u00a0Alive Natural Sound Records. His musical style combined the rawness of\u00a0Delta blues\u00a0with\u00a0Chicago blues\u00a0and\u00a0juke joint blues\u00a0styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 16, 2013, Fat Possum announced that Ford died at home in Greenville of respiratory failure, after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"T-Model Ford performs Chicken Head Man\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3FcxSIUgC_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"T-Model Ford - Sallie Mae\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FOIU9l4WiuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"T-Model Ford with GravelRoad - Ask Her For Water\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oc4kF389FWw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lewis Carter Ford\u00a0(probably June 24, 1923\u00a0\u2013 July 16, 2013) was an\u00a0American blues\u00a0musician, using the name\u00a0T-Model Ford.\u00a0Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early 70s, and continuously recorded for the\u00a0Fat Possum label, then switched to\u00a0Alive Natural Sound Records. His musical style combined the rawness of\u00a0Delta blues\u00a0with\u00a0Chicago blues\u00a0and\u00a0juke&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=1466\" class=\"read-more\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa T-Model Ford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}