The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to Ocean Springs, MS on Saturday, August 22 at 7 pm at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA)!
WAMA is located at 510 Washington Avenue, Ocean Springs, MS, 39564 (Phone: 228-872-3164).
Guests for the show will include Mississippi author Erin Austen Abbott, and her new national guidebook, Waterfront Living (includes chapter on Ocean Springs!) with New Orleans jam band/honky-tonkers, Greazy Alice, plus gospel group The Veal Brothers of Gloster, MS.
The show is hosted by Jim Dees and Thacker house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobusuhwhackers.
Doors are 6:30 pm | Show: 7 pm | Book signing: 8 pm
Tickets: $50 VIP | $20 General public
(No live broadcast – Show will be recorded for later air.)
Guests:
Author: Erin Austen Abbott – Waterfront Living – Inspired Coastal Homes & Small Town Lifestyles (Running Press)
Despite gas prices and global upheaval, Erin Austen Abbott says, “There’s still good in this country. I found it in these communities across the country. [Chapter on Ocean Springs included.]
“I feature towns you wouldn’t immediately think of as water communities, near rivers, lakes, oceans, and on islands. I photographed homes and places as they are- not high gloss magazine images, but real, attainable places across four seasons. I hope you love it!” – Erin Austen Abbott
Previous book, Small Town Living (“An idyllic celebration of the rural life.” —Publishers Weekly)
Erin’s writing and photography has been published in Esquire, Bon Appetit, Design Sponge, Southern Living, First + Main, and more, and she’s been featured in The New York Times, Anthology Magazine, Domino, and Sage Living by Anne Sage, among others.
The Veal Brothers began their gospel music career in 1975. The group has established their own record label, Prosperity Records.
Their latest album is Live at Home, an uplifting set of tunes that features hot guitar, horns and the group’s incomparable harmonies. Highlights are, “Joy,” “The Price is Right” and Help Me.”
Their previous album was Feel the Spirit.
Greazy Alice is a New Orleans-based, honky-tonk/Americana band in the tradition of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, led by songwriter, Alex Pianovich. (The band name comes from a 1975 Terry Allen song, Border Palace).
The band is a rotating collective that includes, in addition to Pianovich on songs, guitar, vocals; Will Repholz on bass and Lee Garcia on drums with harmony vocals by Jo Morris.
The group wrapped up a successful UK tour this spring and will be hitting select US cities his summer, including Ocean Springs!
Greazy Alice’s latest release is the album, As Time Goes By which includes the heartbreaking single, Last Beer in the Fridge.
Save the date! “Feel the spirit!” Saturday, August 22, 2026!
