Join us for a live performance and recording of the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour featuringlive music by Kacy&Clayton and live literature by Steve Yates. Hear it live on 92.1 or www.myrebelradio.com. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and our house band, The Yalobushwhackers. Live music. Live literature. Hear Mississippi on the radio.
Kacy & Clayton are second cousins, one is taller than the other, and they hail from the Wood Mountain Uplands of Southern Saskatchewan.
Kacy Anderson on vocals, violin, and Clayton Linthicum on guitar, melodeon, and vocals. The duo interprets and composes music inspired by forms of traditional music from Southern Appalachia and the British Isles. Educated by their Grandfather/Great-Uncle respectively, Kacy & Clayton possess an admiration for music and stories of days past. Kacy’s vocals, virtuous and pure, weave seamlessly with Clayton’s finger-style guitar accompaniment. Although the pair are young in age, they’ve been playing music together for over a decade and have created a distinctive, and cohesive sound.
Kacy&Clayton will perform on the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour. Live music. Hear Mississippi on the radio.
Sean Kirkpatrick talks a lot about identity. For Kirkpatrick, who spent the better part of a decade as a guitarist in Colour Revolt before the group disbanded in 2012, that identity was squarely one thing. But along the way—as he became a husband, then a father—these roles began to expand and intersect. Now with Greater Pyrenees, he’s out to write a new future for himself, one that’s excitedly undefined and begging for exploration.
Recorded from August to November 2014, the songs on Greater Pyrenees (Procrastinate! Music Traitors) certainly mark a shift from the sound Kirkpatrick contributed to in Colour Revolt. An army of acoustic guitars gives things a bit more subtlety here, but the set is nonetheless undercut with Kirkpatrick’s urgent passion, from the haunting harmonies of “Categorize” to the driving, hooky “Homemade Blood.”
These are solely Kirkpatrick’s songs, written with his voice and his interests in mind—songs from a three-year period that are innately tied to his new identity as a more experienced and wiser songwriter.
“For a while, it felt like everything was blurred,” Kirkpatrick says. “Going back and writing these songs, it was almost like finding myself again.”
“Sandy and Wayne,” published in paperback by Dock Street Press, is a love story set in the rugged, crumbling shale of the Boston Mountains in Arkansas. Sandy Coker is the lead inspector for the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. Wayne Sheridan is the dirt foreman on the biggest heavy construction job Sandy has ever supervised. Steve Yates tells the story of two lost hearts, their harbored ambitions, and the secret that threatens to tear them apart.
Steve Yates will give and interview and reading on the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour. Live literature. Hear Mississippi on the radio.
