Season Premiere! Authors Tim Gautreaux and Diane Williams, music by the Nellie Mack Project and The Nightowls

Live from Off Square Books on January 26, 2017 at 6pm

Join us Thursday, Jan. 26th at 6 pm at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS 38655) for our season premiere of The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour in conjunction with Pop-up Oxford and the Fiber Arts Festival! FREE Admission.

Guests: Authors Tim Gautreaux and Diane Williams with music by Mississippi blues band, the Nellie Mack Project and R&B/Soul band, The Nightowls from Austin, TX.

Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, The Yalobushwhackers.
Radio: WUMS 92.1 FM (Oxford) Online: www.myrebelradio.com.

Featuring

Author

Tim Gautreaux

Tim Gautreaux’s latest book is the short story collection, Signals (Knopf). The twenty-one stories (new and collected) take place mostly in the bayou country of Louisiana. They are populated by Gautreaux’s signature working class characters who wrest with affairs of the heart as well as “heat, humidity and bugs.” His previous books include the novels, The Clearing, The Missing and The Next Step in the Dance. His previous story collections include Welding with Children, Same Place, Same Things and Waiting For the Evening News. Gautreaux lives in Chattanooga.

Diane Williams

Diane Williams is an oral historian, performance artist and storyteller. Her book is Mississippi Folk and the Tales They Tell: Myths, Legends and Bald-Faced Lies (The History Press). Williams traveled across the Magnolia State to gather these local legends and has compiled them into an inquisitive, laugh-out-loud collection. Williams also serves as the director of grants for the Mississippi Arts Commission. She teaches at Millsaps College and at Jackson State University.

Nellie Mack Project

Mississippi blues artist, Nellie Mack (Nellie McInnis) has been playing bass since she was a teenager. She now fronts her own blues trio, The Nellie Mack Project as well as a gospel group, Soft Wind. Mack is a high-energy performer who dances as she plays. With a master’s degree in music, Mack also presents workshops to children, both gifted, as well as physically challenged. Nellie Mack is a roster artist with the Mississippi Arts Commission.

The Nightowls

The Nightowls are a soul band from Austin, Texas, formed in 2011. Their debut album, Good As Gold, was named one of the Top 10 Austin Albums of the Year. Their follow up was FAME Sessions. Texas Music Magazine calls their music, “a dancing-in-the-street spirit straight outta Motown.” Their latest release is the EP, The Royal Sessions recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis. The band has performed at South by Southwest as a “Showcase Artist” for the past two years in a row.

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