I found these bits about blues man, T-Model Ford, at Alternative Reel.
‘I play the blues . . . I don’t ever get the blues. After my sister died I prayed to God to please let me live like a tree. Tree don’t care if them other trees is dyin’. Tree don’t care about nothin’ . . . I don’t let nothin’ get me down.’ Most people can’t do this–stay happy because they’ve decided to be happy, no matter what–but it seems to work for T-Model.’
–T-Model Ford, interview, Guardian Unlimited, Nov. 16, 2003
Stay happy because you want to be happy, hard to argue against that.
“T-Model’s life reads like a horror story. At the age of eight, his father beat him so badly between the legs with a piece of firewood that he lost a testicle. His ankles are scarred from the chain gang. His neck is scarred where one of his wives slashed his throat. He has been shot, stabbed, pinned under a fallen tree with a broken ribcage, beaten unconscious with a metal chair. He watched his first wife go off with his own father, watched another die after she drank poison to try and induce a miscarriage. The only woman he ever really loved poisoned him at the breakfast table; he woke up in hospital that afternoon and never saw her again.
–”Delta Force,” The Observer, November 16, 2003
What is not clear, from this, is exactly when, the “live like a tree” policy went into effect.
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peoples_temple_of_apostolic_socialism wrote,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxudOGNRg3k
written by Nasir, Shane and performed by Nas… i think, it just about sums up conditions at present — In$ane $hane’s Version Of Nas’s Stillmatic bang…
“What Goes Around — Poison.”
One Liners –
“spending money on trees” “Karma’s a Bitch, America” and perfection in “find the soldier in the [ground]?”
from T Model Ford, is this:
I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enough-dangerous man.’
–T-Model Ford, interview, You See Me Laughin’, 2002
I don’t think we, the free and the brave, will make it if our artists are disallowed access to perform… and get paid. and the internet could be the pathway! to delivery… blashe blashe
peoples_temple_of_apostolic_socialism’s last blog post..MTC 12
Link | June 1st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Pribek wrote,
“Blues is the truth”, that’s what Willie Dixon said. How should the truth be presented? Nas’ works “sums up conditions at present”, is it because of what he’s saying or how it’s packaged.
The only kind of Karma that can be avoided is, future bad Karma.
Sometimes an angry young man, makes it to the point where he strives to be as tree, I guess.
Link | June 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
this comment written to “Country Mile” –
Well then knock on a piece of firewood: “in hopes all Karma soon coming is not polluted with blood from caned slave ancestor family members, who seem to have unreasonably brought T-Model Ford to us.”
Too much bloody baggage, like testicular residue, or ribs broken off and stuck on, makes our Karma Meter sluggish and inaccurate. Can’t go around everyday with a meter attachment on my cell phone I can’t calibrate.
Sheeeesh…!! Did you know Truth is packaged as a Tree. Call UPS and have them deliver Truth… it’ll be a tree. Yep. It doesn’t need a box either. It’s already mostly brown.
Tree don’t care if them other trees is dyin’. T-Model Ford
According to Jimmy Kimmel:
Did you know the most requested thing at T-Ford Model’s concert is “Put that piece of firewood down, Mr T, pleeeeze!”
Link | June 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm