Thacker Mountain Radio returns live! Thursday, Feb. 2 at 6pm at Off Square Books.

Free admission or tune in live to 92.1

Tom Franklin-  Tom Franklin is the author of the acclaimed story collection, Poachers, as well as the novels, Hell at the Breech, Smonk and his latest, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. That book won England’s prestigious Golden Dagger award for crime fiction. Previous winners of the Dagger, awarded annually since 1960, have included John LeCarre, James Lee Burke, Patricia Cornwell and Dick Francis. Paste magazine said, “Reading and immersing yourself in Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter feels the same way a long afternoon and evening listening to a great blues singer in a juke joint feels—like you have tapped into an elemental and profound part of your soul you hadn’t really understood before.”

Beth Ann Fennelly- Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of the poetry collections, Unmentionables, Tender Hooks and Open House and the essay collection, Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother. Fennelly teaches poetry and writing at Ole Miss where she was named the 2011 Humanities Teacher of the Year. In 2009, she won a Fulbright grant to Brazil and spent six months there with her husband, Tom Franklin, and their three small children. The family makes their home in Oxford. 

The Bill Perry Trio- The Bill Perry Trio is Bill Perry on piano, Keith Fondren, on bass and Fred Dunlap III on drums. The group’s funky jazz sound includes shades of hip hop, reggae and electronica. Their latest release, available on i-Tunes, is Beyond the Darkness. The group will perform at Proud Larry’s on Feb. 11.

Star & Micey-  Star & Micey’s self-titled 2009 debut album on Ardent Records was a homegrown Memphis affair with guests Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars,  Jody Stephens of Big Star and Rick Steff of Lucero. Their newest CD is Emerge Memphis Sessions and showcases the band’s strong melodies and soul-driven folk music, what they affectionately call, “Pofolk.” Star and Micey perform as a trio led by songwriter Joshua Cosby on guitar, banjo and vocals, with brother Geoff Smith on bass, and Nick Redmond on guitar, banjo and vocals. They are often joined by Jeremy Standfill on drums, Adam Woodard on accordion and Jessie Munson on violin.

Join host Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers, at Off Square Books or tune in to Rebel Radio, 92.1 FM. Also on Mississippi Public Broadcasting  (90.3 FM) every Saturday night at 7 PM immediately following A Prairie Home Companion, or listen Saturday online: (http://www.etv.state.ms.us/radio/index.html). 

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