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Thacker Mountain Radio


After a long summer holiday, Thacker Mountain Radio returned to Mississippi airwaves on Thursday, September 11. Now in its eighth year, the popular live music and author reading series is reaching more listeners than ever from its home base in Oxford, Mississippi, where it is broadcast live on Bullseye 95.5 FM and statewide on the Mississippi Broadcasting Networks.

Coming off a successful summer edition on June 19 in the Gertrude C. Ford Center on the University campus—a show that focused on filmmaking, fine art, music, and even a radio drama written by novelist Larry Brown—the show’s hosts, Jim Dees and the Taylor Grocery Band, welcomed back its regular crowd to Off Square Books in downtown Oxford, featuring author Sena Jeter Naslund, who read a moving excerpt from her new novel, Four Spirits, and an uplifting performance by Oxford-based gospel singers the Jones Sisters. The show was balanced by Naslund’s frank rendering of a scene involving civil rights-era violence and the Jones Sisters’ reverent a cappella gospel, and the whole show ended notably with a memorable version of John Anderson’s “Swingin’,” sung by the Jones Sisters and the Taylor Grocery Band with Duff Dorrough.

The staff, joined this season by Center for the Study of Southern Culture graduate assistant Angela Watkins, is looking ahead toward another big season with a full slate of guests. Among the authors scheduled to read are best sellers like Elmore Leonard (October 16), Kevin Baker (October 9), and Larry Watson (September 25), and hot up-and-comers like Adam Johnson (October 2), Adrian McKinty (October 23), and Jack Pendarvis (November 6). Musicians scheduled to appear include Drive-By Truckers (September 25), the Burnside Explosion (October 2), Sid Selvidge (October 30), Old Crow Medicine Show (November 20), and Marshall Chapman, the rare guest who performs both as a musician and as an author, reading from her new memoir Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller on October 9.

The stations of the Mississippi Broadcast Networks continue to broadcast Thacker Mountain Radio on Sunday afternoons at 5:00 p.m. The signal has reportedly reached from Memphis down to Mobile and even down near New Orleans. The show can be heard live over the Internet at www.bullseye955.com.

The show is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Square Books and is funded by a handful of local and state supporters and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. Learn more about the show at www.thackermountain.com.

Jamie Kornegay


 

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