Willie Ford has been played on NTS shows including BRWN w/ Ahwlee & Pink Siifu, with Just Shopping (Not Buying Anything) first played on 10 April 2018.

Willie Mae Ford (June 23, 1904 – February 2, 1994), also known as Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith, was an American gospel singer. Biography[edit] Early years[edit] Born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi on 23 June 1904, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee as a child. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri at the age of 12. Raised in the Baptist church, she began singing with her sisters, Mary, Geneva, Lucille, and Emma, in a family group known as "The Ford Sisters". The group,…