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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This Sunday, June 5 at 6 pm in the Grove, we’ll present two authors with direct ties to Oxford, including Taylor Brown, whose latest novel, Wingwalkers, has Oxford as its setting for at least half the book and William Faulkner as a main character. In Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s, World of Wonders, the opening essay, Catalpa…
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It’s been said there was a “Golden Age” in Oxford, perhaps roughly from the 1980s, through the early 2000s. In the late 80s, early 1990s, across a three-block area, one could wonder at the magic-filled shelves of Square Books; enjoy a $2.99 plate lunch at the Gin; snag some 89 cent rolling papers from Willie…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to live performances on Thursday, March 24 at 5:30 pm at the The Lyric Oxford. The show will be a “Pop Up Partnership” with the Oxford Film Festival and will feature Oxford author/screenwriter Michael Farris Smith and the 926 Alumni Band of the Stax Music Academy of…
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The party’s back! The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will host its 8th Annual Holiday Membership party on Friday, Dec. 3 from 6-8:30 pm at The Lyric Oxford. The event will feature an online auction of unique gifts to raise funds for the show, plus live music by the Yalobushwhacker Big Band with the Holiday Horns!…
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At age 87 he still has better hair than you. More hit records too. In fact, 2021 has brought more acclaim than ever to bluesman Bobby Rush and his astonishing 70-years in show business. This year Bobby won his second Grammy for Best Traditional Blues for his album, Rawer Than Raw. He also published his memoir, I…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, like people and businesses everywhere, has been forced into changes to adapt to the Covid pandemic. The Oxford-based music and literature show features performances by musicians and authors in front of a live audience and all that came to an abrupt halt in March 2020. “We had a packed house…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will perform in the Grove, Sunday, June 27 at 6 pm in the show’s first Oxford appearance with an audience since the Covid pandemic began last year. Admission is free and lawn chairs and picnics are welcome. The Grove is located at 1848 University Ave, Oxford, MS 38655. The show…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the award-winning music and literature show based in Oxford, MS, will bring its program to Meridian, MS for that city’s Threefoot Festival, Saturday, May 15th at 6 pm. The performance will take place at the historic Temple Theater as the finale of Meridian’s two-day arts and music event. (State health…
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By Jim Dees – The careers of writer David Sheffield and blues musician Christone “Kingfish” Ingram (pictured) – are case studies in how to go for it, reach the pinnacle of your profession and stay true to the heart of your hometown. You can hear them both Saturday May 1, along with roots duo, Sugarcane…
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