She Ain't None of Your'n
The unmistakable Fat Possum sound--rough and pumping juke-joint blues and dance tunes played by latecomers likeR.L. BurnsideandJunior Kimbrough--has brought traditional down-home blues full circle, from the Delta to Chicago and back again. With his third album of raw, relentlessly rocking songs and shouts that make his peers' nastiest efforts seem tame, 78-year-old Fat Possumer T-Model Ford takes his listeners on another adventurous journey to the dark, delirious heart of Mississippi. Clear out the furniture and check out the growling voice and guitar of "Woodcuttin' Man" and the more sensual "Sail On," the wickedness of "Chicken Head Man" and the innocent joy of "I Got a Home." Prominent amid all the grit and rowdiness is the haunting "Mother's Gone," a raw confession of pain and loss that recalls the greatBlind Willie Johnson's masterful "Motherless Children Have a Hard Time" in its rugged poetics.--Alan Greenberg