The word “legend” gets tossed around rather loosely (ditto, “iconic”) but if ever those words apply it would be to Dorothy Moore, a Mississippi rhythm and blues master of 50 years and counting. This Saturday in Clinton, MS, you can see -and hear- for yourself. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will play host to Moore…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour has announced its 2019 summer schedule and the slate includes a series of live performances across Mississippi as well as archival Saturday broadcasts. At the same time, Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) will introduce its re-shuffled Saturday line-up this Saturday, June 1. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour’s summer season of live…
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This Saturday, May 11 – Pulitzer prize-winning author Rick Bragg reads from his evocative southern food memoir, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table on The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting http://www.mpbonline.org/ and at 9 pm on Alabama Public Radio https://www.apr.org/. Musical guests include…
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Bestselling author Rick Bragg will appear in Mobile, AL on Saturday, May 4 at 7 pm as part of The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, an award-winning, Mississippi-based music and literature show. Bragg’s latest book, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table, has just been released in paperback. The “food memoir”…
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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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