Hasil Adkins
Hasil Adkins was a one-man blizzard of weird American music. A firm favourite of the Cramps (who covered his song “She Said ”) he threw everything but the kitchen sink into his demented recordings and sounded like nothing heard before or since.
Everything about him is weird including his death, mown down by a rampaging adolescent on a killing spree atop a quad bike. He made his first guitar from a bucket and although he eventually moved on up to real instruments that bucket always made itself heard.
T Model Ford is a crazy bastard
There can sometimes be an image of the bluesman being a kindly old gent who is a bit too partial to wreck the hoose juice, always down on his luck but generally satisfied with his poor lot in life.
Screw that, Claude.
T Model Ford plays filthy scuzz blues meant for drinkin’ dancin’ fuckin’ and fightin’ The 84 year old (or 85, he cant quite remember) ex trucker, ex farm hand and ex con (Murder. 10 years. Out in two, if you’re wondering) didn’t start playing till he turned 58 and started recording at 74, on fat possum records. By all accounts this hard livin’ pensioner still plays for hours outside his house and on Nelson Street, Greenville Mississippi. “People were rough on Nelson Street. I fought a couple of times up there, but I didn’t get whupped. I win!”
Check out his page at fat possum for details of the 5 releases so far. T Model reckons he’ll keep going till 110 years old, so there’s plenty of life left in the Old Taildragger yet!
Click Play to hear She Asked Me So I Told Her