The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour kicks off its 2025 spring season on Thursday, Feb. 6. at 6 pm at the Powerhouse Arts Center.
Guests for the Feb. 6 season premiere will include Memphis poet Maria Zoccola, country songwriter Amber Rae Dunn and Oxford-based blues singer, Edna Nicole. The show is hosted by Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns.
Admission is free and the public is invited. Doors are 5:30. Refreshments will be available and showtime is 6 pm.
The Powerhouse Arts Center is located at 413 S 14th St, Oxford, MS.
The show will be broadcast live (and every Thursday in Oxford) on WUMS 92.1 FM – University of Mississippi.
In Mississippi, the show can also be heard on air and online every Saturday night at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB).
The show is also available on public and community radio stations in Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville, TN as well as on the stations of Alabama Public Radio.
The show’s newest affiliate is KNCE (93.5 FM) True Taos Radio – KNCE Radio in Taos, New Mexico.
All shows are archived at WYXR Memphis.
Highlights of the upcoming season include two local road trips:
Thursday, Feb. 13 – 6 p.m. show in Water Valley – Old Hendricks Building – FREE Admission! – 102 Main Street, Water Valley, MS
Guests: Memphis musician Marcella Simien, poet A.H. Jerriod and country rockers, Joe Austin and the Tallahatchies.
Thursday, March 13 – 6 pm show Taylor, MS at the Wonderbird Spirits Distillery – 618 County Road 303 (aka Old Taylor Road)
Guests: Author Sanjena Sathian (“Goddess Complex” – darkly comic psychological thriller); blues dynamos, Heartbreak Hill
and Memphis guitarist, Lina Beach
Other season highlights:
Feb. 20 – 6 pm – Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square) Old stomping grounds!
Author: Montana fly-fishing guide Callan Wink and his thriller novel, Beartooth, with blues singer Candice Ivory
Feb. 27 – 6 pm – Powerhouse:
Mississippi roots show! Rocking blues duo, slide guitarists, Heavy Drunk and Watermelon Slim; with acoustic trio FERD
March 6 – Alvin Youngblood Hart – Grammy winning blues/roots guitarist at the Powerhouse – FREE Admission!
March 20 – 6 pm – Songwriter Claire Holley and lefty cigar-box guitarist Bear Ryan
** Save the Date – Thursday, April 3 – 6 pm – Oxford Conference For The Book – Powerhouse Arts Center
FREE Admission! Public invited!
Author/musician Elijah Wald (New book: Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories also author of Dylan Goes Electric! – basis for film, “A Complete Unknown”);
Music historian Preston Lauterbach, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King;
plus Grammy nominated blues performer Jontavious Willis
April shows:
April 10 – 6 pm – Memphis musicians Rachel Maxann and Wildwood Reverie and Wyly Bigger
April 17 – 6 pm Rocking blues duo Cash’s Juke Joint
April 24 – 6 pm Season Finale – The Great Dying (full band); soulful vocalist, Damein Wash; and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band with the Thacker Horns!
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