Jamie Posey:<\/strong> We\u2019re planning on it being loud and raw! We\u2019re calling it J.R., for Jamie and Rosie. I\u2019m playing an electric guitar wide open. She\u2019s playing drums. So it\u2019s just going to be us so \u2026 our mind meld is more on display. Our telekinesis, I guess you could say. No, not telekinesis, telepathy. We\u2019re not moving shit around.
Rosamond Posey:<\/strong> I guess we kinda are, though \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have to move it with your mind. Well, what made y\u2019all decide to do the duo thing? That sounds cool. Well, I hope you do more gigs as J.R. because that sounds killer and I hate to miss it. Yeah, that is a great idea. What\u2019s your favorite thing about the Picnic? Why does it stand out compared to other festivals? Who are some of your favorite Hill Country artists? Who would you love to sit in with or collaborate with at the Picnic? What else is Rocket 88 up to? I know y\u2019all play every other Sunday at Rafters for brunch. Rocket 88 will play at the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic Saturday, June 24 at 10 am JR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7887],"tags":[2271,4412,435,5,397,7067,4,25647,2277,4411,3],"class_list":["post-129505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","tag-garry-burnside","tag-jamie-posey","tag-kenny-brown","tag-mississippi","tag-north-mississippi-hill-country-picnic","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-proud-larrys-5","tag-rocket-88","tag-rosamond-posey","tag-the-local-voice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Rocket-88-band.jpg?fit=1200%2C719&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
J:<\/strong> We\u2019ll play some songs from our catalog from Rocket 88 that are really just unrecorded originals. And then we\u2019re going to play some Hill Country for sure because, you know, there needs to be more Hill Country played. You know, we\u2019ve got Garry [Burnside], but really most [Hill Country] players are touring outward, you know, not in town. We\u2019re billing it as a Hill Country Picnic preview. So, we\u2019re going to have Garry and then Kenny [Brown], after that, solo. Both of them solo. And then we\u2019ll close it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J:<\/strong> Well, we had Jimbo\u2019s drums in the house \u2026
R:<\/strong> During Covid.
J:<\/strong> So we both learned to play drums because they were there \u2026 I learned to play piano also during Covid. Sometimes it\u2019s just she and I, and that\u2019s what we would do. Switch up too. It\u2019s pretty loose and fluid. And you know, we\u2019re gonna do some covers that we\u2019ve never done. Like I want to do \u201cRiders on the Storm.\u201d I want it to sound hard and edgy, and then like you\u2019re walking into a Quentin Tarantino movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Yeah, we\u2019re going to. And plus, here\u2019s I want to encourage Rosie to do\u2014and she\u2019s on the fence\u2014I want her every show to do something funky with her hair. Like one that\u2019s some big poofy pigtails \u2026
R: <\/strong>No!
J: <\/strong>Maybe the next one has some cornrows or whatever. Like every show I want her to do something crazy with her hair, make that part of the deal, because I think that\u2019d be bad ass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R: <\/strong>Now just find me a hairstylist, that\u2019ll be step one.
J: <\/strong>Well we all know what she can do with that hair. She can twist it and do all kinds of stuff with it. She\u2019s a master braider.<\/em>
[Everyone laughs]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R: <\/strong>I like kicking it off on Friday. We\u2019re always the first band, Rocket 88. We\u2019re going to be first or second this year, too, but I like starting the festival.
J: <\/strong>I like the family part of it. It\u2019s a big family reunion. It really is. All those people I was telling you about earlier that are playing out [on tour]. Well, they come back for [the Picnic], so it\u2019s like a family reunion. [Lots of] hugs and laughs and stories, smiles. Oh man, sitting in front of that big fan, watching the next band get ready, and going out front and looking at looking at it there. Of course, you got the crafts and everything on the top of the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J: <\/strong>R.L. Burnside. You know Junior Kimbrough, of course. T-Model Ford. I\u2019ve played with Garry [Burnside] a few times. Me and Garry went to Garry\u2019s bar [in Ripley] with Patrick Mcclary and Nathan [Robbins] and played. Garry played drums, and man, it\u2019s one of the best shows I\u2019ve played, we just absolutely crushed it. I love playing with Garry. On Thacker Mountain Radio, me, Garry and Kenny [Brown] all played together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J:<\/strong> We do, and that\u2019s kind of like our unplugged version\u2014me, Rosamond, Nathan, and Eric Carlton. And we do a lot of gospel, like moving gospel, hopping, whatever you want to say. It\u2019s not the boring [kind of] gospel. We do it like Duff would sing it. You know, we did some Duff covers. It\u2019s a lively acoustic set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20220624-IMG_3667.jpg\")
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