The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS Friday, April 12 at 6 pm at the New Roxy Theatre, located at 363 Issaquena Ave. Admission is free. The New Roxy is a unique venue: there is no roof so it is basically an outdoor venue. Lawn chairs and weather…
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by Jim Dees – “I had never had a gun pulled on me,” author Lovejoy Boteler writes in “Crooked Snake – The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard,” a harrowing account of his own kidnapping. In the book, from University Press of Mississippi, Boteler describes his kidnapping in 1968 at age 18 at the hands…
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There’s a party in the Delta and you’re invited! The Delta Music Institute (DMI) entertainment industry program at Delta State University will once again host the award-winning Thacker Mountain Radio Hour Saturday, March 2 at 3 p.m. The show will take place in Studio A of the Whitfield Building on the campus of Delta State…
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by Jim Dees – Late Mississippi author Willie Morris didn’t talk to cows (dogs, yes) but he would recognize the poor, rural characters in One Good Mama Bone. The novel, by South Carolina writer Bren McClain, was given the 2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and will be featured on this week’s Thacker Mountain…
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by Jim Dees – An enigmatic piano is at the center of a brilliant new novel we’ll feature this week on The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour. (Thursday, Jan 31 at 6 pm at Off Square Books in Oxford. Admission is free). In, The Weight of a Piano (Knopf) by Chris Cander, the titular instrument haunts…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford’s award-winning music and literature show, will open its spring season this upcoming Thursday, Jan. 24 at 6 pm at Off Square Books. Guests for the first show will include acclaimed debut novelist Garth Greenwell and Mississippi blues musicians Ben Wiley Payton and Watermelon Slim. Admission is free. Off Square…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour has issued a statement thanking all of its supporters and donors and the show’s executive producer/director says the show is primed to have an “even bigger and better year” in 2019. “On behalf of the Friends of Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, we’d like to thank our Thacker family and the…
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by Jim Dees – An author reads from their work and a band plays their latest tunes. It’s a pretty simple formula. The catch is, the author and the band have to be sincere, talented and hard-working and, while they’re at it, show us a new way to see truth. For the past two decades…
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It’s the party of the year – and you’re invited! The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will host its annual holiday/membership party, including a very unique silent auction, on Friday, Dec. 7 from 6-9 pm at Southside Gallery at 150 Van Buren Avenue. The event will feature live music by Thacker’s house band, the Yalobushwhackers, as…
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by Jim Dees – We are reeling over the news that Snooky Williams of Water Valley has passed away. He was 87 and had been very sick but prior to his illness, Snooky was so very much alive. He and his sweet (and unnaturally funny) wife, Mary Lou, were the earliest supporters of our show,…
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