Thursday, Oct. 23 – 6 pm – Powerhouse Arts Center, Oxford, MS Location: 413 S 14th, Oxford, MS
FREE Admission! Come early, bring a pal, snag a beverage and a seat!
Doors: 5:30 pm – Frosty Refreshments – Show: 6 pm
Author: Eliana Ramage – To the Moon and Back – One woman’s (super serious) quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut
Music: Cameron Kimbrough – North Mississippi bluesman and his hard-earned tunes
Music: Drunken Prayer – Thy Burdens – Cosmic Gospel recorded in Water Valley, MS
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Airtimes:
Thursday, Oct. 23 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, Oct. 29 – 10 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday – Oct. 30– 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Nov. 1 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
7 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Nov. 2
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.
Eliana Ramage’s debut novel is To the Moon and Back (Avid Readers Press/Simon & Shuster).
The novel is the story of one young woman’s relentless (read: life or death) quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut. It is an examination of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder.
“Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. I loved it all.” —Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age
Eliana Ramage holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Lambda Literary, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she lives in Nashville with her family. To the Moon and Back is her first novel.
Cameron Kimbrough is an accomplished drummer and slide guitarist, originally from Potts Camp, MS.
His releases include the single, “Still Standing;” the EPs, Breakfast for Dinner (2013) and Head for the Hills (2016).
Cam has toured nationally and internationally with, among others, blues guitarist Lightning Malcolm and as one half of the duo, Memphissippi Sounds with harmonica player, Damion “Yella P” Pearson.
Kimbrough is the grandson of North Mississippi Hill Country blues legend Junior Kimbrough and the son of blues drummer, Kent Kimbrough and blues singer Joyce “She Wolf” Jones.
Cam credits his Uncle David Kimbrough with showing him his first guitar chords and his grandfather’s juke joint, Junior’s, (where he was babysat from age 4-7) with life lessons.
Drunken Prayer is a stalwart of the vibrant Asheville, NC. music scene. Morgan Geer writes songs that could be a kind of holy blues. The new record, Thy Burdens, is homage to the fiery music of the church.
Morgan learned hymns from his great-grandmother in Mobile, AL. Partnering with Drive-By Truckers’ Bobby Matt Patton, the pair recorded the album in North Mississippi with some of their friends from Appalachia and the Delta.
“Cosmic Gospel… a marriage between Otis Redding and The Band.”- Klanderman Promotion
“Drunken Prayer is Americana in the sense that America is a place of menace, hybrid vigor and unending strangeness.” – Robert Duncan, CREEM Magazine
