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Classic Album Review: T-Model Ford | You Better Keep Still

Shut up and listen up to the Delta bluesman — if you know what's good for you. 

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


At 77, Mississippi bluesman T-Model Ford is still has as much bite as a sackful of rattlers. Actually, on this worthy followup to 1997’s Pee-Wee Get My Gun, he’s pretty much a whole menagerie of dangerous critters.

Backed by the backwoods bashing of his drummer Spud, Ford roars like a lion, snorts like a bull and growls like a dog fixing to chomp on your leg. Most of all though, he likes to lay down a John Lee Hooker boogie with his guitar and work it like a rented mule. Shut up and listen up — if you know what’s good for you.