Thacker’s back! Oxford’s “Original Literary and Musical Showcase” kicks off its 27th year Thursday, Sept. 5 at 6 pm, at Oxford’s Powerhouse Arts Center. Admission is free and the public is invited. Guests for the Sept. 5 show will include science fiction novelist Tobi Ogundiran with Memphis songwriter Mark Edgar Stuart and blues rocker Peggy…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is truly lit for the month of August highlighted by the return of Jesmyn Ward, the two-time National Book Award winner who will join us on Saturday, August 24 at 7 pm at the Walter Anderson Museum (WAMA) in Ocean Springs, MS. Ticket info/details here. No worries if you can’t…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the Oxford, MS-based, music and literature program, returns to the Neshoba County Fair on Saturday, July 27 at 8 pm at the Founder’s Square Pavilion stage. Guests will include author/photo-journalist Kate Medley, Grammy-nominated bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Mississippi-native keyboardist/songwriter, Beth McKee. The show is hosted by Jim Dees…
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When the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) gave out their 45th annual awards this June, Thacker Mountain Radio Hour was well represented. Tim Lee, who serves as Thacker’s production director, shared the Music Composition (Contemporary) Award with his wife – and bandmate – Susan. The couple, who record and tour under the name,…
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Summer’s here and we’ve got the buzz! Listen at your leisure! Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Podcast, iHeart Radio. OR on good old-fashioned radio! Catch up – and cool off! – with some of our favorite recent shows, including: Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (airs weekend of July 11-14) 1980’s…
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Stephen Hundley, a graduate of the Ole Miss MFA writing program, has published his first novel, Bomb Island (Hub City Press). The setting is a barrier island paradise off the coast of Georgia featuring a hippie commune of treehouses, wild horses on the beach, fishing for food, and tranquil sunsets. A Hawaiian shirt come to life….
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“One of the happiest surprises of my travel life has been Mississippi. Elvis’s birthplace in Tupelo, Rowan Oak-William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, the Delta and the blues in Clarksdale (where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil), the tragedy of Emmett Till and all that led to. “Complicated” is a word you hear throughout…
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The classic rock hit, “Hound Dog,” usually associated with Elvis, was actually written and became a phenomenon years earlier. In 1952, Big Mama Thornton needed something fresh to sing which led her manager, (pistol-toting) Don Robey, to approach Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who had just penned the smash hit, “Kansas City.” Stoller: ” When…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to live performances on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 6:00 pm at the Powerhouse Arts Center. Guests for the season premiere will be Memphis novelist Eric Schlich, Oxford-based jazz/soul vocalist, Effie Burt and Delta bluesman (and great-nephew of Muddy Waters) Keith Johnson. Admission is free and the public is invited. Doors…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to the 2023 Neshoba County Fair with a very special guest performer. Grammy-winning bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart will be the featured artist for Thacker’s performance at the event. The show takes the stage at Founder’s Square Pavilion at 8 pm on Saturday, July 22. Hart will be joined by…
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