JAMES 'SON FORD' THOMAS

James "Son Ford" Thomas: The Devil and His Blues, 80WSE Gallery (New York) 2015

Black Folk Art in America, 1930–1980, Corcoran Gallery (Washington D.C.) 1982

David Serlin, Jonathan Berger, James "Son Ford" Thomas: The Devil and His Blues, edited by Jessica Iannuzzi Garcia, Jonathan Berger, 80WSE Gallery, 2016

William R. Ferris Jr. “‘If You Ain’t Got It In Your Head, You Can’t Do It In Your Hand’: James Thomas, Mississippi Delta Folk Sculptor.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 3 (1970): 89–107.

THE MUDDY YAZOO RIVERBANKS GAVE THEIR CLAY TO THIS ROWDY DELTA BLUESMAN AND ONE-TIME GRAVEDIGGER, TO MOULD IT UNFIRED INTO HOODOO SKULLS AND FURNISH WITH WIGS, SHADES AND REAL TEETH.