Thursday, May 29 – 6 pm – The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the long-running public radio showcase for music and literature, is coming to Greenwood, MS. The show will record an episode at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, May 29 at 6 pm.
Outdoor show – FREE Admission! Lawn chairs encouraged! (No coolers, please). Beer and wine for sale.
Doors at 5:30 pm – Show: 6 pm
7 pm: Live music/book signing
The museum is located at 1608 Highway 82 West, Greenwood. Phone: 662-453-0925.
Author: Boyce Upholt, The Great River – The Making & the Unmaking of the Mississippi
Musical guests: Songwriter (and Leflore Countian) Anne Freeman and blues dynamo Nikki Hill.
Hosts: Jim Dees with house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
NOTE: Nikki Hill will perform a brief after-show set at 7 pm and Boyce Upholt will sign copies of The Great River.
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, now in its 27th year on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, will not broadcast live but will record the May 29th Greenwood program for air later this summer.
In 2005, Thacker Mountain Radio Hour received the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for Broadcast Excellence. In 2017, the show was awarded a “Citation of Merit” from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
On October 20, 2022, The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour celebrated 25 years on the air.
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Special NOTE: We at the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour love guitars, half our crew are dedicated fret freaks.
We take particular pleasure in performing at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta the same opening weekend as a super cool, very comprehensive exhibit on guitars, America at the Crossroads.
From the National Guitar Museum, the show is a must see for guitar fans, history buffs or just plain folks who love a good song… and a story.
Tickets and details on the exhibit in Greenwood, MS here.
The exhibit’s tour schedule here.
Rock on!
Boyce Upholt is author of The Great River – The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (Norton).
In this landmark of natural history, Upholt tells the epic story of a wild and unruly river and the centuries of efforts to control it.
Boyce Upholt is a journalist and essayist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications.
He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, and he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“The Great River is easily one of the best books ever written about the Mississippi.” – John Barry, author, Rising Tide.
“[A]n exceptional natural history that never loses sight of the human players involved.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review).
“… fascinating lore alongside jolting conservation truths.” (Garden & Gun)
Blues/rock musician Nikki Hill, originally from Durham, NC, has honed her gritty blues/rock/punk style after years living in musical Mississippi River towns such as St. Louis, New Orleans, and, currently, Memphis, TN.
Her releases include the EP Soul Meets Country, Heavy Hearts Hard Fists and Feline Roots.
“Think Tina Turner fronting AC/DC and you’ll have half of the picture. She’s a machine…you’ve got no excuse if you miss seeing her…
Nikki Hill is a revelation, her band masters of rocket-fueled bluesy swing, her voice the beacon which calls you home… a vocal powerhouse who don’t mess around.” — Rolling Stone
Anne Freeman is a singer-songwriter based in Oxford, MS, originally from the Mississippi Delta.
Her releases include the single, “City Watched Me Burn” from her album, Keep It Close, which bridges indie pop and alternative country.
