Thacker's Back! Powerhouse Thursday, Sept. 4 - FREE Admission!

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is back! Fall 2025 begins this Thursday, Sept. 4 at 6 pm at the Powerhouse Arts Center!

All Oxford shows are FREE and open to the public.

**Full Fall 2025 schedule click HERE **

Read on for more info…

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Season Premiere: Thursday, Sept. 4 – Powerhouse Arts Center

Thacker Backers Doors: 5:00 pm (Food/cocktails – Be a Thacker Backer! Join at the door!)

General public doors: 5:30 pm – Frosty Refreshments

Show: 6 pm

*Kentucky novelist Hannah Pittard If You Love It, Let It Kill You

(Buzz: Pittard and her ex-husband have published competing books about their marriage. Discuss!).

*Acclaimed international blues singer Candice Ivory New Southern Vintage

*Nashville “cosmic roots” band, Coyote Motel – The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South

General public doors: 5:30 pm – Refreshments – Show: 6 pm

Admission: Free! Free! Free!

Come early, snag a frosty refreshment and a seat!

Hosts: Jim Dees with house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers: Paul Tate (guitar, vocals), Ricky Burkhead (drums), Slade Lewis (bass) and Keon Love (piano). Executive Director: Lucy Gaines Production Director: Tim Lee Sound wizard: Jeffrey Reed – Back house sound: Blake Gardner. Production assistants: Brittney Cable and Brady Rees. (Extra Special Thanks: Susan Bauer Lee).

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Broadcast live: 6 pm Thursdays WUMS 92.1 FM – University of Mississippi

On air and online: Saturdays 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting

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Affiliates: WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga – Wednesdays – 9 pm (CT)

WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN. Thursdays – 8 am (CT)

Alabama Public Radio Saturdays 9 pm (CT)

WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville Sundays 2 pm (CT)

KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico Sundays 3 pm (CT)

**Archived at WYXR Memphis here. (Big Thanks!)

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Save the Dates! FREE Admission – All shows Powerhouse except noted:

Highlighted shows include…

Sept. 11 – Mississippi’s newest novelist, Clarksdale-native, Addie E. Citchens (“Dominion”), veteran songwriter Keith Sykes and blues singer, Prayer Bailey.

Sept. 18 – Memphis roots duo Amy LaVere and Will Sexton

Sept. 25 – Memphis blues/rockers Southern Avenue, John Prine memoirist Tom Piazza (Living in the Present with John Prine)

Oct. 9 – Off Square Books – Jimmie Rodgers tribute with author/musician Paul Burch (“Meridian Rising”)

Oct. 16 – Water Valley with songwriter Charlie Mars and one-woman blues rocker Ghalia Volt at the Hendricks Building

Oct. 30 – Happy Bad Halloween show!

Nov. 6 – National Folk Festival show – Hal and Mal’s, Jackson, MS – Mexican romance trio, Trio en Punto and Zydeco rocker, Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys

Nov. 20 – Season Finale! Powerhouse, Oxford, MS – Author/food travel guide Robert St. John, eclectic Southern songwriter Jim White and Memphis second line masters, Mighty Souls Brass Band!