RIP T-Bone Ford: Bluesman, philosopher, pshychopath, all round good brother. Some snippets of his life: There was his first wife, whom he married when he was a teenager, and who left, Mr. Ford said, to run off with his father. There was another wife, who he said drank poison to try to end a pregnancy but died instead. “I heard her thump down on the floor, stone dead,” Mr. Ford told an interviewer in 1999. “I was sad, I loved that woman, but I didn’t let it get me down.” There was still another wife — either the third or the fifth; the number varied with Mr. Ford’s recollection — who gave him his first guitar before decamping. One day, his wife brought home a Gibson electric guitar. “I said: ‘What are you spending my money on that for, baby? I can’t play no guitar,’ ” Mr. Ford told The Chicago Tribune in 2002. “She said, ‘You can learn.’ She was all the time running off, leaving and coming back. And I said, ‘If I play it, will you stay?’ And she said yes. She left the next Friday night.”
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:39:20 +0000
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