Staples Jr. Singers rock season finale Thursday at Powerhouse

Everyone loves a good comeback story – and this one rocks. The Staples Jr. Singers were a small-town gospel act in the 1970s, a teen-aged family band: Annie, A.R.C., and Edward Brown from Aberdeen, Mississippi. They named themselves in tribute to Mavis Staples, according to Annie Caldwell (then Annie Brown). She was 14 in 1975…
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Thacker News – Born to be Wilder Thursday at the Powerhouse!

Webb Wilder, the “Last of the Real Men” and a 40-year veteran of rock and roll, brings his gonzo wit and grit to Thacker Mountain Radio Hour this Thursday, April, 20 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse Community Arts Center. Admission is free. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and Thacker house band, the…
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Radio show expands into New Mexico

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford, MS’s weekly music and literature show, has been picked up by a new affiliate who will begin broadcasting the show. KNCE, an independent, locally-owned, community-supported radio station in Taos, New Mexico will begin carrying the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour starting Sunday, April 2 at 2 pm (MT). The unique…
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Former SNL writer visits Thacker Thursday at the Lyric

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will welcome former Saturday Night Live screenwriter David Sheffield this Thursday, March 2 at 6 pm at the The Lyric Oxford. Admission is free and the public is invited. Other guests include Alabama country singer Jon Byrd and Delta bluesman Sean Bad Apple. Hosts of the show are Jim Dees…
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Thacker News – Holiday Members Party Friday; new affiliate announced

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour closes out 2022 with their annual holiday membership party on Friday, Dec. 2. The show is also announcing a new radio/online affiliate, WUOT, 91.9 FM in Knoxville, TN. The membership party will be held Friday at the Lyric Oxford from 6-8:30 pm and will feature an online silent auction with…
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Thacker’s back, Thursday at the Powerhouse!

Big band! Big book! Big night! – The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour kicks off its Fall 2022 season, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 6 pm, with a live show and after party at the Powerhouse Arts Center in Oxford (413 S. 14th Street). Admission is FREE. Guests will include author Matt Bondurant and his novel, Oleander…
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“Fish” Michie joins Thacker Mountain band for Book Fest show

Jim “Fish” Michie, well-known to Mississippi music fans from his days as keyboardist for the Tangents, a hard-driving R&B band from the 1980-90s, returns to Jackson, MS this Saturday, Aug. 20. Michie will perform at Hal and Mals at 7:30 pm as part of Thacker Mountain Radio Hour’s house band, the Yalobushwhackers. Admission is $10…
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Host Post: ‘Smiling from our souls’

From my vantage point, standing onstage, only feet away from the hot-as-a-rocket Mississippi country group, Chapel Hart, the frenzied crowd response felt like a tsunami of euphoria. I could actually feel the heat. Then they turned it up a notch. The ladies and their tight road band launched into their #1 hit, “You Can Have…
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