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- Date Released: November 10, 1998
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Delta Blues
- Label: Fat Possum Records
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It's tough to look bad-ass when you're 77 years old, but check out the sneer on T-Model Ford's face on the cover of You Better Keep Still. The black hat-sporting ex-con from Mississippi didn't get serious about music until he was in his late sixties and he still doesn't take anything seriously as he improvises his way through many of these songs. Musically, he keeps everything as simple and spare as can be; no solos, just jagged guitar riffs set to his partner Spam's primitively unadorned drumming. The record begins with T-Model banging on a wooden box on "If I Had Wings, Pt. 1" and talking madness about trying to get a drink of water and being attacked by various reptiles and women he attempts to hit on. Then comes the extremely catchy guitar riff from "To the Left to the Right," a frenzied, juke-joint dance number. There's also the harsh, out of tune "Here Comes Papa" and the wacked and very funny "These Eyes." Though it's not really essential to the record, producer Jim Water's noisy remix of "Pop Pop Pop," based mostly on a riff from "Here Comes Papa," is groovy. But T-Model Ford is in no need of a club remix. He's got everything down perfect and the wild blues that flow naturally from him are as real and feisty as blues music gets.
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| 01. |  |
If I Had Wings (Part 1) |
3:34 |
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| 02. | |
To The Left To The Right |
3:15 |
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| 03. | |
Look What All You Got |
4:23 |
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| 04. | |
Here Comes Papa |
4:10 |
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| 05. | |
We Don't Understand |
3:08 |
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| 06. | |
These Eyes |
2:56 |
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| 07. | |
Pop Pop Pop (Remix) |
4:26 |
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| 08. | |
The Old Number |
4:55 |
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| 09. | |
Come Back Home |
3:44 |
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| 10. | |
If I Had Wings (Part 2) |
4:03 |
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10 Total Tracks, 38:34 Total Length
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Credits
- Jim Waters - Remixing // T-Model Ford - Arranger // T-Model Ford - Main Performer // Scott Benzel - Remixing // Matthew Johnson - Producer // Matthew Johnson - Photography // Bruce Watson - Producer // Bruce Watson - Engineer // Bruce Watson - Mixing
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