On air and online Thursday, Sept. 19 – Sunday, Sept. 22 – The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour welcomes back an old friend, author Richard Grant (“Dispatches From Pluto”) with his latest dispatch; plus Scottish baker (and Tik Tok sensation) Coinneach Macleod with musical guests, Memphis songwriter Jeff Hulett and R&B vocalist Effie Burt.
Guests:
Author: Richard Grant – In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona
Author: Coinneach Macleod – The Hebridean Baker at Home
Music: Memphis songwriter, Jeff Hulett and the Hand Me Downs – Little Windows
Music: Soul/jazz/gospel singer Effie Burt – Koko Taylor tribute with the Yalobuswhackers
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Airtimes:
Thursday, Sept. 19– 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN
Saturday, Sept. 21 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Sept. 22
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
Richard Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in his latest book, In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy – Dispatches From Arizona (Simon& Shuster).
He reports on the world’s largest machine-gun shoot; takes readers on a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; and does a ride along through the desert with a Border Patrol agent.
Southern readers will fondly recall Grant’s previous memoirs, Dispatches From Pluto and The Deepest South of All.
Grant lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and daughter.
Coinneach Macleod is the international bestselling author of The Hebridean Baker: At Home: Flavors & Folktales from the Scottish Islands (Source Books).
Macleod shares stories and adventures alongside his best selection of recipes.
MacLeod was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Inspired by traditional family recipes and homegrown produce, Coinneach rose to fame as the Hebridean Baker on TikTok.
He has motivated his worldwide followers to bake, forage, learn Gaelic, enjoy a dram or two of whiskey, and to seek a more wholesome, simple life.
Jeff Hulett & the Hand Me Downs of Memphis, have a new album, Little Windows, forthcoming. A single, See Her Again, is now available.
The band has also released a two-song EP, Live From the Blue Room, which includes the John Prine-ish, Facebook Feed.
Also available is a collection of Hullet’s “back in the day” cassette tape releases, A Mixed Bag of Collected Works, and a two-song EP, Sun Recordings and the 2018 album, Around These Parts.
Hullet can also be heard as part of the Bad Move Heathers on their release, The Tributes EP.
Effie Burt was born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi and worked in security for John Deere in Iowa for 27 years. Her composition, “I’ll Make Me a World in Iowa” was adopted by the 79th Iowa General Assembly to become the companion to the official state song.
She has been singing since the age of 13 with her family at churches and local musical events in Mississippi and Tennessee; at one point as a young singer, often earning extra money winning karaoke competitions.
Since retiring from John Deere and moving back to Oxford, she has continued her activism, working against racism wherever she sees it.
She’s also a proven performer at festivals and concert halls. Burt brings excitement to jazz, her first love, and engages audiences by belting R&B, blues and the homegrown sounds of gospel.
