The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford, Mississippi’s longtime literature and musical showcase, performs its show in Water Valley, Mississippi, this Thursday, October 16 at 6 pm. The show will take place at the Hendricks Building located at 102 Main St. Admission is free and the public is invited. Doors open at 5:30 pm with refreshments, including beer and wine, available for sale. Showtime is 6 pm.
Performers for the show will include songwriter Charlie Mars, one-woman blues powerhouse, Ghalia Volt, and Pulitzer Prize winning true-crime author, Rick Jervis.
The show is hosted by Jim Dees with Paul Tate and house band, The Yalobushwhackers.
Charlie Mars is a journeyman songwriting troubadour, who, over two decades of touring and recording, has amassed a loyal, national fanbase. His latest album is Times Have Changed. Mars lives in rural Yalobusha County.
Ghalia Volt is a slide guitarist/drummer/vocalist (all simultaneously!) from Brussels, Belgium, now based in New Orleans. Her latest release is the album, Shout Sister Shout!
Rick Jervis is the author of The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer (Harper Collins). The book is a shocking true-crime story of a US Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.
Jervis is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was USA TODAY’s Baghdad Bureau Chief from 2005-2007, where he covered the Shiite-Sunni conflict and the trial of Saddam Hussein and participated in more than 25 military embeds. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters.
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to Oxford next week for a October 23 show at the Powerhouse Arts Center at 6 pm. More info at the show’s website: https://thackermountain.com/.
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