On air and online: Wed. Sept. 10 – Sun Sept. 14
Author: Hannah Pittard – If You Love It, Let It Kill You – “…sharp, funny, moving, and strange in the best possible way.”
—Emily St. John Mandel, NYT bestselling author of Station Eleven
Music: Coyote Motel – The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South – Soundtrack to the Nashville “cosmic roots” band’s debut film!
Music: Candice Ivory – New Southern Vintage – New album from the Queen of Avant Soul!
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Airtimes:
Thursday, Sept. 4 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, Sept. 10 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday – Sept. 11 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Sept. 13 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Sept. 14
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
Archived here: Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Podcast, iHeart Radio
In Hannah Pittard’s darkly comic new novel, If You Love It, Let It Kill You (Macmillian), a novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently in her ex-husband’s debut novel. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body.
Recommended: The New York Times, Elle, Zibby Owens, and the Minnesota Star Tribune
“A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about.”
—The New York Times
Hannah Pittard is the author of the novels Listen to Me and The Fates Will Find Their Way and the memoir (kind of), We Are Too Many.
She lives in Kentucky.
Grammy-nominated blues/soul singer, Candice Ivory, has been wowing audiences around the world.
This September, she’s set to release her highly anticipated new album, New Southern Vintage (Blue Nola).
The album’s first single is “Catfish Blues.”
Among the many guest musicians playing on the album are Bentonia bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Public Enemy’s Khari Wynn.
Dubbed “The Queen of Avant Soul,” Ivory’s previous release was When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie.
Raised in Memphis and based in St. Louis, Ivory hails from a musical family that includes her great-uncle, the singer and guitarist Will Roy Sanders of the Fieldstones, one of the premier Memphis blues bands from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Nashville’s “cosmic roots” band, Coyote Motel’s latest album, is the soundtrack to their new film, The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South.
The film and soundtrack explore the lives, lore, and locales along the Cumberland, Mississippi, and Tallahatchie rivers. The film includes musical performances, storytelling, psychedelic light art, aerial dance, and cultural history.
Coyote Motel’s previous releases include the albums, Still Among the Living, Learn to Love the Moon, and Coyote Motel.
The band is Ted Drozdowski, vocals and guitars; Sean Zywick, bass; Kyra Curenton, drums; Luella, vocals, guitars, and percussion; and Laurie Hoffma, Theremin and glockenspiel.
“A dream journey that teases out why and how music means so much to so many of us.”—Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life
Band photo: Bonnie Aldcroft
