Join us for a live performance and recording of the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour featuring live music by the Jericho Road Show and alt-country band Lucero. Hear it live on 92.1 or www.myrebelradio.com. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and our house band, The Yalobushwhackers. Live music. Live literature. Hear Mississippi on the radio.
This edition of the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is in conjunction with the statewide Americana Music Night series.
Tickets to Lucero’s full concert after Thacker at the Lyric Oxford can be purchased here.
The Jericho Road Show is an all-acoustic group specializing in vintage country/blues. The band is led by vocalist Steve Gardner and guitarist Bill Steber of the Jake Leg Stompers. Slide guitarist Wes Lee, and blues musician Libby Rae Watson round out the quartet. Their CD is Times Ain’t Like They Used to Be (Hoo Doo Records).
Lucero is a country-punk rock band based in Memphis that has been described as a “synthesis of soul, rock, and country [that] is distinctly Memphian.” Their 11th CD, is All A Man Should Do (ATO Records). Following their Thacker appearance, Lucero will perform a full concert at the Lyric at 10 pm. Tickets for the full concert are available at the door.
Randy Pierce is author of the novel, The Peter Bay (Dogwood Press), a southern thriller set in Mississippi featuring lawyer Grant Hicks who is hired to help a childhood friend wrongfully accused of murder. Pierce’s previous books include, Pain Unforgiven and Mississippi Mud. A former Justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court, Pierce is currently the Director of the Mississippi Judicial College at Ole Miss Law School.
