(Contemporary) Award with his wife\u2014and bandmate\u2014Susan Lee<\/strong>. The couple, who record and tour
under the name Bark<\/strong>, he on guitar, she on drums, won for their album, LOUD<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other 2024 MIAL awardees with ties to north Mississippi and the radio show include past The awards banquet was held June 8 at the Mississippi Museum of Art<\/strong> in Jackson, Mississippi<\/strong>. \u201cThe first time we received the MIAL we were dumbfounded,\u201d Lee said in his recipients\u2019 In choosing LOUD for the 2024 award, the judges said the album displayed \u201ca uniqueness of Since 1978, the MIAL has given awards in musical composition, (contemporary and classical), LOUD<\/em> was made with producers Matt Patton<\/strong> and Bronson Tew<\/strong> at Dial Back Sound<\/strong> in Water \u201cBetween 2019 and 2022, we had dealt with a pandemic together, recording in an unfamiliar The couple, like so many, have dealt with a variety of family issues including the loss of close In addition to Bark (Motto: \u201cShake that thang \u2018till our heads explode\u201d), the radio show and \u201cWe\u2019ve enjoyed being back in Mississippi,\u201d Tim concludes. \u201cDespite the pandemic and various Visit Bark: http:\/\/bark-loud.com\/<\/a>. When the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) gave out their 45th annual awards this June, Thacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":140777,"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":[7887,19],"tags":[22183,2730,23836,3854,2734,366,8367,29313,5907,8314,4760,1603,5,14884,5851,5908,2676,22184,5993,27023,3553,7082],"class_list":["post-140776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","category-local-news","tag-bark","tag-bronson-tew","tag-charles-reagan-wilson","tag-curtis-wilkie","tag-dial-back-sound","tag-jackson","tag-jesmyn-ward","tag-kate-medley","tag-knoxville","tag-lee-durkee","tag-loud","tag-matt-patton","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-institute-of-arts-and-letters","tag-mississippi-museum-of-art","tag-susan-lee","tag-tennessee","tag-terminal-everything","tag-thacker-mountain-radio-hour","tag-this-is-noteworthy","tag-tim-lee","tag-water-valley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bark-Lost-Art-Photography.jpg?fit=347%2C347&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140776","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140817,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140776\/revisions\/140817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Thacker guests Charles Reagan Wilson<\/strong> (Nonfiction); Lee Durkee<\/strong> (Life Writing); and Curtis
Wilkie<\/strong> (Lifetime Achievement). Upcoming Thacker guests, Jesmyn Ward<\/strong> (Fiction) and Kate
Medley<\/strong> (Photography), were also honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2024 award is the second for Tim and Susan Lee and Bark. The duo won in the same
category in 2020 for their album, Terminal Everything<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
remarks. \u201cOdd ball rock and roll bands like ours don\u2019t usually get attention from organizations
with ‘Arts and Letters’ in the title.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
lyrics, a variety of textures and vocals while still maintaining a rock and roll stance and sound.\u201d
The judges also took note of Susan\u2019s album cover design (she\u2019s a graphic artist by day) in
declaring \u201cthe project overall the most engaging and interesting in the field of candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual art, and (in recent years) Youth Literature.
Judges are selected annually and must reside out of state without ties to the nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Valley<\/strong>, Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
space together, and a giant move back home together,\u201d says Susan, of the couples\u2019 2022 move
back to Mississippi after 20 years in Knoxville, Tennessee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
relatives, friends, and even beloved family pets. And yet, the beat goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Susan\u2019s graphic design, the Lees also work with an arts organization, This Is Noteworthy<\/strong>. The
group produces an ongoing live music series in the Lees\u2019 adopted town of Water Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
family issues, working with musicians and producing a weekly show is something I enjoy doing
and know how to do. The MIAL awards have been a cool validation.\u201d
Susan Lee agrees. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for the awards and the way the North Mississippi arts
community has embraced us. It\u2019s good to be home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visit Thacker Mountain Radio Hour: https:\/\/thackermountain.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\")
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