Thursday, Oct. 9 – Off Square Books – 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS
Doors: 5:30 pm – Show: 6 pm – FREE Admission!
Join us as we return to our former broadcast home, Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, for a unique evening of acoustic music and a fictional trip into the world of country music’s Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers!
Author: Paul Burch – Meridian Rising – Country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers’ tumultuous life in story and song – “Jimmie Rodgers comes a -yodelin’ out of Paul Burch’s novel as if he were with us today.” – Roy Blount, Jr., Save Room for Pie
Music: Autumn Nicholas – On A Sunday – Nashville songwriter’s new country music message
Music: Oakwalker – Tiger Sun Moon – Swinging, rocking, Memphis roots duo
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Airtimes:
Thursday, Oct. 9 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, Oct. 15 – 10 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday – Oct. 16– 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Oct. 18 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Oct. 19
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
Archived here: Thacker Mountain Radio Hour / WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Paul Burch’s 2016 album, Meridian Rising, was an imagined musical autobiography of American music pioneer, Jimmie Rodgers.
Now, Burch has expanded the album into a novel, a bio-fictional tale, Meridian Rising (University of Georgia Press).
The book imagines how Rodgers might have recalled his boyhood in Meridian, Mississippi in the early 1900s. Back then, the city was a thriving railroad hub that saw 40 trains a day; had pro baseball (the Meridian Mets of the Cotton States League), two segregated Carnegie libraries, and fine department stores like Winner & Kline’s and Marks Rothenberg,
Meridian Rising is a brilliant literary puzzle, deftly blending history and fiction to create a vibrant alternative life-tale of the entertainer Howling Wolf called “my man that I really dug.”
Paul Burch, a native of Washington, D.C., is a writer, composer, and recording artist.
His albums include Last of My Kind, a companion to Tony Earley’s best-selling novel Jim the Boy.
His previous album was Light Sensitive, produced with Dennis Crouch (T-Bone Burnett, Ringo Starr). The disc received 4-star reviews in American Songwriter, No Depression, and All Music and was named “Best of Nashville” by the Nashville Scene.
Light Sensitive features guests Luther Dickinson, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Robyn Hitchcock, and Amy Rigby.
Photo: Mark Yacovone
Autumn Nicholas (she/he/they/them) is a gifted Nashville songwriter and performer whose powerful voice and poignant lyrics have moved audiences across the country.
Their releases include the singles, On A Sunday, Be Gentle, Baggage, Slow Down and Made Yet.
Recent appearances include Bonnaroo, Nashville Pride Fest and at the fabled Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, opening for Jason Isbell.
This past summer they appeared on the bill with Brandi Carlisle’s Mothership concert where she shared the stage with Alanis Morissette. This month she will head to Denmark to take part in the Nashville Nights series which connects songwriters with global audiences.
Oakwalker is a Memphis-based pop/Americana duo: Victoria Dowdy (guitar, vocals) and Ethan Baker (violin). Their latest release is the album, Tiger Sun Moon.
Past releases include a four-song eponymous EP in 2022 as well as singles Alone in My Mind, Future Lover, and LoveLier.
Listeners may recall Victoria from her previous appearance on Thacker as part of the trio, Wildwood Reverie, with Montana Jones and Rachel Maxann.
