{"id":152593,"date":"2025-10-14T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152593"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:18:16","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-visits-water-valley-thursday-october-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-visits-water-valley-thursday-october-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour Visits Water Valley Thursday, October 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour<\/strong>, Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>\u2019s longtime literature and musical showcase, performs its show in Water Valley, Mississippi<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performers for the show will include songwriter Charlie Mars<\/strong>, one-woman blues powerhouse, Ghalia Volt<\/strong>, and Pulitzer Prize winning true-crime author, Rick Jervis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show is hosted by Jim Dees<\/strong> with Paul Tate<\/strong> and house band, The Yalobushwhackers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong><\/em>. Mars lives in rural Yalobusha County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghalia Volt is a slide guitarist\/drummer\/vocalist (all simultaneously!) from Brussels, Belgium<\/strong>, now based in New Orleans. Her latest release is the album, Shout Sister Shout!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Jervis is the author of The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer<\/strong><\/em> (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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jervis is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was USA TODAY\u2019s<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s website: https:\/\/thackermountain.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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