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Anya Groner's essay , Black Nanny and the Tale Dragger, published at Oxford American, The Southern Magazine of Good Writing August 2, 2013, relates an encounter with the late and infamous Mississippi bluesman T-Model Ford, whose songs "revved up quickly, clattering along like a procession of old Cadillacs, their motors jimmied together with wire hangers, the rhythms more beautiful for their brokenness."