Saturday, July 26 – 8 pm – Founder’s Square Pavilion, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, MS
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the award-winning, Oxford, MS-based, music and literature program, returns to the Neshoba County Fair on Saturday, July 26 at 8 pm at the Founder’s Square Pavilion stage.
Guests will include author/illustrator Marshall Ramsey, roots rocker Webb Wilder and fife and drum duo, the Rising Stars.
The show is hosted by Jim Dees with the Thacker house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers.
(No live broadcast. Show will be recorded for air July 30 – Aug. 3. See below).
Tickets and parking information: https://neshobacountyfair.org/.
Airtimes:
Wednesday, July 30 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday – July 31 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Thursday, July 31 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Saturday, Aug. 2– 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Aug. 3
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
Marshall Ramsey is a two-time Pulitzer Finalist (2002 and 2006), a 2022 Southeastern Emmy winner, and a former editorial cartoonist.
He’s also the author several successful books including three cartoon collections, two short story collections (Fried Chicken and Wine and Chainsaws and Casseroles) and the delightful children’s books Banjo’s Dream and SAVING SAM! A Banjo the Dog Story.
He is the former host of the award-winning weekly radio program, Now You’re Talking with Marshall Ramsey that aired on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Currently, Ramsey is the Director of the Mississippi Media Lab and the Director of Engagement for the Jordan Center at the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi.
He lives in Oxford, MS.
Webb Wilder returns with Hillbilly Speedball, his first new album in five long years. The album’s 10 songs balance tempered restraint with raucous abandon.
Webb Wilder, the “Last of the Real Men” is a 40-year veteran of rock and roll, who brings wit and grit to every performance.
“Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need ’em.”
To which he adds: “Trust your gut, even if it’s a beer gut.”
The Rising Stars are duo Sharde Thomas (fife/vocals) and Chris Mallory (bass drum).
The Stars are keeping alive a centuries-old musical tradition handed down to Sharde by her grandfather, the late Othar Turner, a leading practitioner of North Mississippi fife and drum music.
Among the Stars’ recent successful collaborations was the Voices Of Mississippi tour that included Luther and Cody Dickinson, Cedric Burnside, Bobby Rush, Ruthie Foster and Bill Ferris.
The pair also recently toured Africa, particularly across Senegal.
Their new show and album is The Evolution of Fife and Drum Music. The album won the Memphis Blues Society’s Self-Produced CD competition.
NOTE: Sharde continues Otha Turner’s long tradition of goat roast picnics in late August at the Coldwater Shrine Club in Coldwater, MS.
More info: G.O.A.T. PICNIC .
The New York Times has called Thomas and the Rising Stars, “the last living link to fife and drum music.”
