On air and online: Wednesday, Oct. 22- Sunday, Oct. 26
Author – Rick Jervis – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, The Devil Behind the Badge – True-crime story of a 2018 Border Patrol serial killer who terrorized Laredo, TX
Music: Charlie Mars – Album: “Times Have Changed” – Mississippi troubadour, Yalobusha Countian!
Music: Ghalia Volt – Album: “Shout Sister Shout” – One woman band! International blues sensation!
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers – “Best Live Radio Band in the Land!”
Airtimes:
Thursday, Oct. 16 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, Oct. 22 – 10 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday – Oct. 23– 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Oct. 25 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Oct. 26
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
Archived here: Thacker Mountain Radio Hour / WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Rick Jervis is the author of The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer (Harper Collins) a nonfiction narrative account of the 2018 serial murders in Laredo, TX by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
“A thrilling ticktock on the borderland slayings and the effort to solve them.”—Texas Monthly
The book is a shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.
Rick Jervis is a National Correspondent for USA TODAY based in Austin, Texas.
He began his journalism career at the Miami Herald, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism for a series on voter fraud.
He has also worked at the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Chicago Tribune.
Rick was USA TODAY’s Baghdad Bureau Chief from 2005-2007, where he covered the Shiite-Sunni conflict and the trial of Saddam Hussein and participated in more than 25 military embeds.
He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters. The Devil Behind the Badge is his first book.
Charlie Mars is a journeyman-songwriting troubadour, who, over two decades of touring and recording, has amassed a loyal, national fanbase.
His latest album is, Times Have Changed.
“Mars’s country and folk-inflected pop is topped by his warm vocal croon and his knack for crafting poignant, earthy songs.” – Rolling Stone
His previous albums include, Beach Town, The Money, Like a Bird, Like a Plane and Blackberry Light.
Mars lives in an undisclosed location deep in the wilds of Yalobusha County.
Ghalia Volt is a slide guitarist/vocalist from Brussels, Belgium now based in New Orleans.
Her latest release is the album, Shout Sister Shout!
Her previous CD, Mississippi Blend (Ruf Records), debuted at #3 on the Billboard blues charts. The disc was recorded in Coldwater, MS at the Zebra Ranch and features Cody Dickinson, Lightnin’ Malcolm, Cedric Burnside and Watermelon Slim, of nearby Clarksdale, on harmonica.
Her CD, Let the Demons Out, was a Top 25 hit on the Living Blues chart.
