Today (Thursday, Jan 23) at 6 pm, when The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour takes the stage at Off Square Books to start a new season, we’ll have Nashville singer-songwriter David Olney (above, right) in our hearts. Olney, as reported this week, died onstage last Saturday in mid-performance at a songwriter’s festival in Seaside, Florida. For…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford’s award-winning music and literature show, will open its spring season of live performances this Thursday, Jan. 23 at 6 pm at Off Square Books, located at 129 Courthouse Square. Guests for the first show will include debut short story author, Ashley Wurzbacher, (pictured, left) pop-rockers…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the award-winning music and literature show broadcast every Saturday night on Mississippi and Alabama public radio stations, is bringing its mix of books and bands to Livingston, MS for a live performance this Saturday, October 26 at 6 pm. The show will take place at The Lake at Livingston. Admission…
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At some point, a hot, frisky Saturday night becomes Sunday morning. The blues wail turns into a gospel moan as sin and salvation start a foot race to dawn. We’re going to explore that mercurial moment this Thursday at 6 pm at The Lyric Oxford on The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour. The Barnes Brothers, Chris…
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We always have a good, solid Thacker Mountain Radio Hour with our friends at Sarahfest from the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at Ole Miss. Over recent years we’ve done this show at Mr. Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, outdoors under the stars, in front of his stable on his paddock, channeling the ghosts…
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This week’s featured book, Stories From 125 Years of Ole Miss Football (Nautilus), takes the reader back to a time before party decks, charging stations and “gameday enhancements.” The stories in the book, edited by bestselling author Neil White, cover 1893-2017 and are for anyone who enjoys a good sports story along with a little…
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Thacker will fire up its 22nd year on-the-air tonight at 6 pm at Off Square Books and my buddy Ron “Ronzo” Shapiro won’t be there. We lost Ronzo over the summer after 75 loving-life years. He supported our show but he loved all art, showing up at most any opening, reading, or concert, wearing a…
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In the past year Julian Rankin has 1) moved to Ocean Springs, MS, 2) been named Executive Director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, 3) taken a six-day canoe trip to Anderson’s favorite barrier island, Horn Island, and 4) won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for ‘Best Non-Fiction Book of the…
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by Jim Dees – This Saturday, onstage, in front of a roomful of sweaty but cheerful book folk – and probably several dozen children – I’ll be obliged to talk sex with Candace Bushnell (pictured) the woman who literally wrote the book on the subject. Bushnell is the author of Sex and the City, the…
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Author Paige Williams grew up in Tupelo and recently told an interviewer her interest in reading and writing was sparked in that All-American City by the “sweet smell of the Lee County Library.” Williams will return to her hometown this Saturday, August 3 at 7:30 pm at Tupelo’s Link Centre as the literary guest on…
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