Mystery in the Mountains

A heist thriller, cool jazz and Nashville tunes!

On air and Online! Thursday, Feb. 27 – Sunday, March 2.  Roaring into March with a great book and cool tunes!

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

Music: Bill Perry, Jr. – Jazz, hip-hop, pianist, composer/filmmaker – Billy Perry Trio; POW! – Live action online series 

Music: Jeff BlackAnthology – career-spanning, fan-selected collection, drops March 2025

Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers

Airtimes:

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

Archived here: Spotify, SoundCloudGoogle PodcastiHeart Radio

 

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

Bill Perry, Jr.

Bill Perry, Jr. is a jazz/hip-hop pianist, composer and filmmaker. His most recent project is the live-action mini-series, POW!

His musical releases include, Beyond The Darkness and Phantom. He also wrote and produced Mother Universe and All Her Children, a visual concept album which features five musical movements.

Perry appeared on the ABC-TV civil rights drama, Women of the Movement, NBC’s Young Rock as well as in the 2022 Morgan Freeman film, Paradise Highway.

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.

Anthology, a collection of Black’s songs going back to 1998, curated by fans and listeners, will drop March 2025.