T-Model Ford

Many years ago I went to a small roadhouse in Cincinnati to listen to an old bluesman by the name of T-Model Ford.  Sitting on the stage was a very simple drum set - snare, cymbal, bass - and a chair.  Young dude comes out and sits behind the drums and then an employee helps T-Model to his chair.  He's not moving quickly and his movement is not fluid.  He's old and in failing health.  He plops down in his chair and gathers himself.  He is so afflicted with arthritis that he can't use his fingers on the fretboard of his guitar.  Instead, he has a piece of kitchen cutlery and I am not making this up.  I don't remember exactly which utensil he had but I seem to remember a fork.  He proceeds to blow my mind.  I like the blues anyhow but the sight of this old man playing some really simple, very basic, very arresting blues music with a fork, no bass player, and a drum set that looks like it came out of a children's store has never left my mind.