{"id":42239,"date":"2017-10-12T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=42239"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:04:31","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-20th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour<\/strong> celebrates its 20th year on the air, Thursday, October 19 at 6 pm at The Lyric Oxford<\/strong> (1006 Van Buren Ave, Oxford, MS 38655). Admission is free and the public is invited. Doors open at 5:15 pm. Guests will include long haul trucker-turned-author, Finn Murphy<\/strong>, Oxford native musician, Jimbo Mathus<\/strong>, north Mississippi hill country blues guitarist, Kenny Brown<\/strong> and country\/soul singer-songwriter, Bonnie Bishop<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The show will be hosted by Jim Dees<\/strong> and house band, The Yalobushwhackers<\/strong>, with a special appearance by the show\u2019s original house band, The<\/strong> Sincere Ramblers<\/strong>: Caroline Herring<\/strong>, Bryan Ledford<\/strong>, Wendell Haag<\/strong> and David Woolworth<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The program will expand to 90 minutes for this anniversary show, 6-7:30 pm. The live broadcast can be heard locally on WUMS 92.1 FM<\/strong> and online at http:\/\/myrebelradio.com<\/a>. The anniversary show will be broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting at 7 pm on Saturday, October 28. <\/span><\/p>\n

An after party will kick off following the Lyric performance at Off Square Books<\/strong> (129 Courthouse Square) at 7:30 pm. The party is free to current Thacker members; new members may join at the door. <\/span><\/p>\n

As host of the show since 2000, Dees says he\u2019s grateful to the audience for keeping the show alive for two decades. \u201cObviously we\u2019ve had a great crew, producers and musicians for 20 years. But if nobody\u2019s listening or coming out to be in the audience, there\u2019s no show. I thank the people of Oxford and our statewide audience.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Thacker Mountain Radio began in 1997 as the \u201cWords and Music\u201d show at Blind Jim\u2019s<\/strong>, a former Oxford bar (now the Summit<\/strong>). Those early shows featured an author reading and music by a visiting band as well as songs by the house band, a format that continues today. The show now broadcasts some 31 shows a year, 12 in the spring and 12 in the fall as well as 6-7 on the road in various cities across the state. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2001, the program went statewide after being picked up for broadcast by Mississippi Public Broadcasting which continues to air the show every Saturday night at 7 pm on radio and online. In 2005, Thacker Mountain Radio received the Governor\u2019s Award for Broadcast Excellence<\/strong>. This year, the show was awarded a \u201cCertificate of Merit\u201d<\/strong> by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

In his memoir of driving a truck for three decades, The Long Haul – A Trucker\u2019s Tales of Life on the Road<\/em><\/strong> (Norton), Finn Murphy<\/strong> recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kenny Brown played with the late bluesman R.L. Burnside<\/strong> for nearly 30 years. In recent years, Brown has forged his own successful career, taking the north Mississippi hill country blues sound all over the world. Each June, Brown plays host to two dozen blues acts at the annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic<\/strong>. The veteran musician was recently honored in Hernando<\/strong> by the Hill Country Blues Hall of Fame<\/strong> with the unveiling of his sculpted hands playing a guitar by noted Como sculptor Sharon McConnell-Dickerson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jimbo Mathus has been on the road this year, delighting national audiences as front man for The Squirrel Nut Zippers<\/strong>. His albums include, Band of Storms<\/em><\/strong> (Big Legal Mess) Blue Healer<\/em><\/strong>, Dark Night of the Soul<\/em><\/strong> and Confederate Buddha<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Country\/soul singer Bonnie Bishop\u2019s latest CD is, Ain\u2019t Who I Was<\/em><\/strong> (Thirty Tigers), produced by Dave Cobb<\/strong> (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbel). Bishop\u2019s song (co-written with Al Anderson), “Not Cause I Wanted To<\/strong>,\u201d appeared on Bonnie Raitt\u2019s<\/strong> 2012 Grammy-winning album, Slipstream<\/strong>. \u201cI am from Texas, but there\u2019s a lot of Mississippi in me,\u201d Bishop says. \u201cI definitely got my soul from hanging with all the black girls in choir when I lived there. That\u2019s how I learned to sing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thacker producer Kate Teague<\/strong> says the 20th anniversary show should be a special night. \u201cWe have a great mix. We have artists who\u2019ve never been on the show, like Finn Murphy and Bonnie Bishop, plus old friends like Jimbo, Kenny Brown, and Caroline Herring. We hope folks will come out and pack the Lyric!\u201d\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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