This week: Get right with the rockin’ gospel of Rev John Wilkins!

Plus: Tales of Amish spaceships, animated Faulkners and Cary Grant in a cornfield, and songwriter Love Moor!

Crank it on your couch! Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 7:00 pm Mississippi Public Broadcasting - 9 pm Alabama Public Radio

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour reaches back into the vault for this classic show from September 22, 2018. Our headliner is our dear friend, the Reverend John Wilkins. We ask that you lift up the Reverend as he remains hospitalized (per his Facebook page, as of April 30) while continuing his long recovery from the coronavirus.

This show also features good humor and laughs courtesy of whacko science-fiction author Michael Martone and cool tunes from songwriter Love Moor (bios below).

Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers

Air dates:

Thursday, April 306 pm (CT) Radio: WUMS 92.1 FM (Oxford) and online

Saturday, May 27 pm (CT) – Mississippi Public Broadcasting

9 pm (CT) – Alabama Public Radio

Stay safe, everybody. Thanks for listening!

 

 

Featuring

Music

Rev John Wilkins

Born and raised in Memphis, Reverend John Wilkins has roots in North Mississippi. On his latest CD, You Can’t Hurry God (Big Legal Mess) his music rocks with a nod to Memphis beats and Mississippi hill country blues. His rousing live performances now feature Wilkins’s three daughters adding soulful back-up vocals.
Wilkins’ father was the influential musician, the Rev. Robert Wilkins, whose song “Prodigal Son” was later covered by the Rolling Stones.

Author

Michael Martone

Michael Martone’s latest book is the quirky story collection, The Moon Over Wapakoneta – Fictions and Science Fictions From Indiana and Beyond (Univ. of Alabama Press). Martone chronicles his native Midwest with a keen eye, his trademark experimental story structures and his gift for finding the marvelous in the mundane. These off-beat stories include time travel across time zones from Ohio to Indiana; the “death” of baseball’s Derek Jeter, a convention of reanimated William Faulkners, how a beer bottle can serve as a telescope, and a story about how the Amish power their spaceships with windmills.
Said one reviewer: “Once again, the Mark Twain of metafiction offers us a collection of fictions and beautiful universes—including our own.”

Marton’s previous books include Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins; Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft And the Craft of Art; Michael Martone, a collection of fake contributor’s notes; and The Blue Guide to Indiana. Quarry Press has also recently published Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone, which includes five of his earlier books: Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List, Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, and Seeing Eye.

Music

Love Moor

Love Moor (Erica Andrew) was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Miami, and is now based in Birmingham. Her neo-soul tunes reflect those various geographical locales and revolve around themes of sexuality, nostalgia, abandonment, and self-love. Her album, Simp Girl was produced by Robot House’s Angel “Suaze” Perez. Her previous CD is Blu Polka Dots.

“Erica Andrew makes assured and ingratiating R&B that doesn’t hit a nerve so much as slide under the skin when no one’s looking.” — NPR

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