The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour kicks off our 2024 Fall Season in typical fashion: we’re all over the map!
Author: Tobi Ogundiran – In The Shadow of the Fall – Epic fantasy novella by Nigerian-born, Russia-educated, current University of Mississippi Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing graduate student
Music: Memphis songwriter, Mark Edgar Stuart – new album Never Far Behind
Music: Blues singer Peggy “Lady Trucker” Hemphill Lesueur – Rollin’ Up on Ya
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band with the Thacker Horns and vocalist Mary Frances Massey!
Airtimes:
Thursday, Sept. 12– 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN
Saturday, Sept. 14 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Sept. 15
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
Tobi Ogundiran is the author of In the Shadow of the Fall (Tor Publishing/Macmillan), the first entry in a novella duology.
“A masterful fantasy epic of lost faith, found family and a cosmic war.” – P. Djeli Clark
Ogundiran is the award-winning author of Jackal, Jackal, a collection of dark and fantastical stories. His work has been nominated for the British Science Fiction Association, Nommo and Shirley Jackson awards.
His short fiction has been featured on the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, and journals such as Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in several Year’s Best anthologies.
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Ogundiran is in his third and final year as a graduate student at the University of Mississippi’s MFA Writing program.
Peggy “Lady Trucker” Hemphill Lesueur is a member of the blues-singing Hemphill family that includes late patriarch Sid Hemphill (1878-1961) and the late Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006).
Lady Trucker’s latest CD is the rocking blues disc, Rollin’ Up On Ya (Reverb Unit Records).
She often gigs with her husband, drummer Artemas “King” Lesueur, who won a Grammy for his work with his global touring mate, Cedric Burnside.
Ms Hemphill-Lesueur is an actual long-distance trucker. Her driving takes her through Texas and Louisiana and on these trips, she buys school supplies to give away to schoolchildren in her adopted hometown of Holly Springs, MS as well as the MS Delta.
Memphis songwriter, Mark Edgar Stuart’s latest album is Never Far Behind. The album was produced by Memphis guitarist Will Sexton and features a host of Memphis session stalwarts including Jim Spake, Susan Marshall, and a duet (“We Better Call it a Day”) with Memphis vocalist Amy LaVere.
“It’s the record I’ve always wanted to make,” Stuart writes in the liner notes.
“Just holed up in a studio with good friends, no clock, and lots of Coke Zero & Cozy Corner. These songs sweep the entire spectrum of life. Some extremely personal, and some kinda goofy. There’s songs about love, midget wrestlers, miscarriages, and turning 50. There’s even a song about getting fired by my therapist.”
“…equal parts Roger Miller and Eudora Welty…” – Facebook reviewer
