*** T-Model Ford

SHE AIN'T NONE OF YOUR'N

(Fat Possum)

On his third album in less than three years, Mississippi bluesman T-Model Ford comes closer than he ever has to capturing the raw groove and hypnotic feel of his live performances. The driving tempos favored by Ford and his partner on drums Spam match the rate at which Ford's releasing albums these days. And if it seems he's trying to make up for lost time, well, this 78-year-old didn't even start playing guitar until he was in his late 50s.

She Ain't None of Your'n opens with some typical Fat Possum fare: a guttural, clanging guitar coughs and spits all over a juke-joint boogie rhythm as Ford offers some questionable relationship advice in "So She Asked Me So I Told Her." Ford and Spam go on to offer up a couple roughed-up standards -- "Sail On," "How Many More Years"; "Take a Ride with Me" brings to mind the gnarled hill-country blues of fellow Fat Possum artist R.L. Burnside. The late harmonica virtuoso Frank Frost of the Jelly Roll Kings sits in on a pair of tracks, but there's never a doubt that She Ain't None of Your'n is Ford's forum -- yet another opportunity for him to offer up a heaping portion of his "un-urban" blues stylings in all their lo-fi glory.

-- Jon Marko