Live show! – Off Square Books! 6 pm – FREE Admission!

A heist thriller, Memphis blues and Nashville tunes at our old stomping grounds!

Off Square Books 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS 38655 February 20, 2025 at 6 pm

Thursday, Feb. 20 – 6 pm Off Square Books! Return to our former broadcast home! Join us for a great book and cool tunes!

FREE Admission! Public invited! Off Square Books is located at 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS

Doors: 5:30 pm – Show: 6 pm

Guests:

Author: Callan WinkBeartooth – “fierce heist story” set in the grandeur of the American West

Music: Candice IvoryWhen the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie

Music: Jeff BlackA Walk in the Sun

Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers

Airtimes:

Thursday, Feb. 20 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi

Thursday, Feb. 28 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.

Saturday, March 1 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN

7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting

9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio

Sunday, March 2

3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville

2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico

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Featuring

Author

Callan Wink

Beartooth is “One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you’ve been looking for.”–Junot Diaz

Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel.

In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, the siblings are struggling to keep up with their debts. Desperate for money, they are approached by a shadowy out-of-towner with a dangerous proposition that will change both of their lives forever.

Beartooth is a fast-paced tale with moments of surprising poignancy set in the grandeur of the American West. A bracing, masterful novel about survival, revenge, and the bond between brothers.

Callan Wink is the author of a novel, August, and a collection of short stories, Dog Run Moon. He lives in Livingston, Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River.

Music

Candice Ivory

Memphis vocalist Candice Ivory pays respects to her roots with her latest release, When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie (Little Village).

Raised in Memphis and based in St. Louis, Ivory hails from a musical family that shaped Memphis’s secular and sacred sounds. (Her great-uncle was the singer and guitarist Will Roy Sanders of the Fieldstones).

When the Levee Breaks brings together all of her formative musical experiences in a tribute to Memphis Minnie (1897-1973), whose powerhouse vocals and compositional creativity served as inspiration for Ivory’s own innovations as the Queen of Avant Soul.

Produced by singular guitarist-bassist Charlie Hunter, the album is a midnight run to the crossroads, where jazz, blues, gospel, and R&B all converge.

Jeff Black

Jeff Black, of Nashville by way of Kansas City, has been voted one of the Top 100 folk artists of the last 25 years by Boston’s WUMB listeners. His songs have been covered by a diverse group of artists including Alison Krauss & Union Station, Waylon Jennings, Black Hawk, Dierks Bentley, Jon Randall, and John Oates.

His most recent album, A Walk In The Sun features such Music City stalwarts as Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Dave Roe, Jerry Roe and Kenny Vaughan.

A new album is forthcoming.