Order Jimmie Rodgers Teeshirt

Order Jimmie Rodgers Teeshirt
M , L ,XL, for $10.00
2X $12.00
3X $14.00
4X $16.00.
Dead line for ordering is Aug 8th. Should be ready by Jimmies birthday celebration on September 13.
Annie Crimm 601 776 6269
Quitman, Ms 39355

Virginia Shine Harvey

I met Mrs. Shine and Judge Harvey back in the mid to late 60's. Judge Harvey was in the Shrine with my dad, Robert Wiggs. (Bob to his friends). Mrs. Shine, as she had me call her taught my brother and I to play the guitar in the back of her house on Poplar Springs Drive. It was a tin shed like building that we practiced in, as I recall it was real small. I never saw or heard for that matter Mrs. Shine say a bad word or talk unkind about anyone. She was always real jolly and laughed alot with my brother and I. I can remember one day asking Mrs. Shine why she wore her hair on top of her head like she did and she told me it was called a beehive and it kept bees away from her. Later when I was grown I met her daughter Ann. She was Ann Landrum then. My dad found out he was kin to Jimmie Rodgers, when he found a letter Jimmie's mom wrote my grandmother. From that time on we were involved in the Jimmie Rodgers week. That to me was alot of fun when they had it at Ray Stadium. The singers tour buses would be on the field and we could go out and see them on the field. I will never forget meeting Ernest Tubb. He has Jimmie Rodgers guitar, on the back it said THANKS. Mr. Tubb told me he had a daughter name Karen to and he let me sit on his lap in the tour bus. My head was swelled for days. Mrs Shine was the one who introduced me to country music and to Jimmie Rodgers music. She was one of a kind. A very sweet and loving lady.

Karen Palmer
4826 Old 8th ST RD NMeridian MS 39307
601-483-1726
wonderfulgranny@bellsouth.net

America's Premier Traditional Acoustic Music Event!

America's Premier Traditional Acoustic Music Event!

33rd NATIONAL OLD TIME COUNTRY & BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL AND PIONEER AG EXPOSTION and ARTS AND CRAFTSAUGUST 25-31, 2008This incredible event is held annually the week before Labor Day in collaboration with the Ag Expo. We are located at larger quarters in LeMars, Iowa, August 25-31, 2008. The music festival is held at the Plymouth County Fairgrounds in LeMars, Iowa. Click up "Map To LeMars" for specific directions.Now in it's 33rd year, it boasts seven days of old-time and traditional acoustic music performed on eight different stages.

More info
http://www.oldtimemusic.bigstep.com/listofservices.html

Thacker Mountain Radio is on the road!

Thacker Mountain Radio is on the road! Join us this Saturday night, July 26, at the Neshoba County Fair, located ten miles outside of Philadelphia, Miss. Our show will begin at 7:30 PM under the big Pavilion on the fairgrounds’ historic Founder’s Square. The Neshoba performance will run approximately 90 minutes and present a raft of Mississippi writers and musicians.
Steve Stubbs, author of The History of the Neshoba County Fair, will appear along with Clarion Ledger political columnist Sid Salter (Coming of Age in Mississippi) who will recount some of the famous political speeches – from Bilbo to Barnett - that have been delivered at the site. Author Tom Franklin (Smonk, Poachers, Hell at the Breech) will read from his highly acclaimed work. Our musical guests will include a special appearance by the Charlie Mars Band, bluesman Kenny Brown, and the recently re-formed Blue Mountain, who will play an extra set after the radio broadcast concludes. Our inestimable house band, the Yalobushwhackers, will open the show.
Saturday’s program will not be broadcast live but will be recorded for replay later this fall on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
For those who can’t travel to Philadelphia, you can still get your Thacker fix. Tune in this Saturday to Mississippi Public Broadcasting (90.3 in Oxford) at 7PM for Thacker Mountain Radio’s Summer Sessions. This week you’ll hear a classic show from Fall 2002 featuring steel guitar wizard Robert Randolph. Our author will be Mississippi writer Joe Edd Morris (Land Where My Father Died). Thacker Mountain Radio’s Summer Sessions can be heard every Saturday night at 7PM for the rest of the summer immediately following A Prairie Home Companion.
For more information go to www.neshobcountyfair.org or www.thackermoutain.com
Thacker Mountain Radiowww.ThackerMountain.comBroadcast live on Thursdays,5:30PM on Rebel Radio 92.1 FM

Hortense Harvey aka Virginia Shine Harvey

Hortense Harvey aka Virginia Shine Harvey
Over the years I have heard lots of stories about Hortense Harvey and her husband Judge Harvey. About the pickin' and grinin' at their house. A lot of talent came through those sessions. Also about how they opened their house during the Jimmie Rodgers Festivals here in Meridian, Mississippi.

I just recently heard from Rattlesnake Annie. She is writing a biography on herself. Her memories of Virginia Shine Harvey will be included. Visit her site at http://www.rattlesnakeannie.com/ .

I would like to hear from anyone who has stories to tell about the Harveys. From what I understand. They reached out and helped a lot of folks. I would like to post the stories on this site and the other blogs I have. Will put the stories in your words. I do request that you post your name and location with your story. I you would like me to post your email address just let me know. Otherwise your email address will be kept confidential.

It is also my intention to have a Hortense Harvey reunion as soon as one can be put together. to submit a story and or help to put a reunion together email myrick52@hotmail.com .

Jim Myrick
Meridian, Mississippi
http://www.tisba.net/
The International Singing Brakeman Association "TISBA".

Hortese Harvey

Hortense Harvey
MY MEMORIES OF THE PICKIN AND GRINNIN AND HORTENSE AND JUDGE HARVEYFIRST, MY BROTHER WHO IS 4 YEARS OLDER THAN ME WENT TO THE PICKIN BEFORE I DID AND MANY TIMES I WOULD ASK HIM TO TAKE ME WITH HIM. BUT HE WAS"NT HAVING ANY OF THAT LITTLE BROTHER STUFF. SO I FINALLY WENT A COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER HE LEFT AND WENT IN THE NAVY.IF I REMEMBER RIGHT IT WAS IN THE FALL OF 1958 WHEN I MET A FELLOW AT NORRIS CYCLE SHOP ON FRONT STREET NAMED AL HEMMING III. ONE FRIDAY NIGHT WHILE WE WERE OUT GETTING INTO TROUBLE AL SAID SOMETHING ABOUT GOING TO MS. HARVEY'S AND I DIDN'TMAKE THE CONECTION TO THAT AND THE PICKIN AND GRINNIN, BUT WHEN WE GOT THERE .MS HARVEY'S DAUGTHER ANN WAS HAVING A SLUMBER PARTY AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN 10-15 GIRLS THERE AND I TOLD AL " SON I AM IN HEAVEN AND IF I AM DREAMIN DON'T BOTHER WAKING ME UP".ALSO MOST OF THE GIRLS WHO WERE OLDER THAN ME WERE FASINATED THAT I WAS REALLY BILL GRAY'S LITTLE BROTHER. THAT STARTED MY GOING TO THE PICKIN AND GRINNIN AND CONTINUED UNTIL I WENT IN THE NAVY IN 1960 AND EVERY TIME I CAME HOME ON LEAVE I WENT OUT THERE.ONE NIGHT IN LATE 1959 I STOPPED AT MS HARVEY'S HOUSE AND SHE SAID I WAS JUST WHAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR, SHE NEEDED SOMEONE TO DRIVE HER TO THE TRAIN STATION BECAUSE ELVIS WAS COMING THROUGH ON A TROOP TRAIN AND SHE WANTED TO SEE HIM AND WE ONLY HAD 15 MINUTES TO GET THERE.I WAS DRIVING DADDY'S 1951 BUICK AND WE LOADED UP, ME, MS. HARVEY, ANN AND I AM NOT SURE WHO ELSE. I MADE IT TO THE TRAIN STATION IN RECORD TIME, ABOUT 8 MINUTES. WHEN WE GOT TO THE STATION THE TRAIN WAS PULLING IN, THEY WERE USUALLY ON TIME THEN, BUT WE FOUND OUT THAT ELVIS WAS NOT ON THE TRAIN.MS. HARVEY TOLD ME SHE WOULD RIDE HOME WITH SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE SHE WOULD"NT RIDE WITH ME AGAIN IF SHE HAD TO WALK HOME. I THINK SHE DIDN'T LIKE MY DRIVING. WONDER WHY?????

Bob Gray
Meridian, Mississippi

MORE TO FOLLOW//////

Hortense Harvey's Pickin' and Grinin'

I am looking to hear from people who have stories about the pickin' and grinnin' at Hortense Harvey's house in Meridian, Mississippi. I would like for people to email their stories to me so I can put them on my blogs and the TISBA site. I know there are a lot of great stories out there.

If you would. Please help me out by passing the word. I am also trying to get at Hortense Harvey reunion organized. Your participation is greatly appreciated.

Please email your stories to me at myrick52@hotmail.com

Jimmie Rodgers 111th Birthday Celebration

Jimmie Rodgers 111th Birthday Celebration
Saturday September 13, 2008
Admission $6.00
$6.00 plates will be sold
At the Hospitality Room at the Best Western Hotel
South Frontage Road
Meridian, Mississippi
More info coming soon.

www.tisba.net

TISBA Hospitality Night

Welcome to "TISBA"
The International Singing Brakeman Association is in Meridian, Mississippi.
Our next hospitality night will be Thursday August 21, 2008. 6:30 meeting for members only. 7:00 open to the public. Admission -$ 5.00
This will be Steel Guitar Night.
Artist Lineup coming soon.
Please bring a covered dish.
Good local entertainment.
Hospitality Room at the Best Western Hotel on South Frontage Road in Meridian , Mississippi.
Membership Dues are &10.00 per year.
If you would like to perform at TISBA. Please contact us.
You can also sell your CD's and tapes.
TISBA does not pay for perfomers.

Thacker Mountain Radio

Make plans to attend the Neshoba County Fair, outside of Philadelphia, MS, next Saturday night, July 26, at 7:30 PM for a live performance of Thacker Mountain Radio at Founder’s Square. Our guests will be Fair historian Steve Stubbs, Jackson Clarion-Ledger columnist Sid Salter, author Tom Franklin and musical guests, the Charlie Mars Band, Blue Mountain and Kenny Brown. More information at neshobacountyfair.org.
Until then, don't miss this Saturday night on Thacker Mountain Radio when we’ll revisit a show from September 2007 which will feature three very distinct storytellers.
Author JEFFREY LEWIS was the credited writer on dozens of episodes of the acclaimed TV series Hill Street Blues (1981-87) which earned him two Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild Award. In an ambitious departure, the Yale/Harvard Law graduate left screenwriting to document American culture in a four novel series. The first two, Meritocracy: A Love Story and The Conference of the Birds, covered the 1960s and 70s and received great reviews. Lewis has published the third in the series, Theme Song for an Old Show (Other Press). Turning on the aftermath of the 1970s, Theme Song approaches the 1980s by drawing on Lewis’s own coming of age as a successful television writer at a time when television began to define modern American culture. Publisher’s Weekly recommends Old Show as “consistently entertaining.”
First time novelist WILLY VLAUTIN will also join us to read from his debut, The Motel Life (Harper Perennial). The London Times called The Motel Life a “rough, disturbing, heartbreaking piece of work.” Esquire said the book, is “a hugely compassionate, wildly original road movie of a novel.” Book Munch, a literary website, said, “If you like boozy frazzled Americana, this is a book to get VERY EXCITED ABOUT!” Of special interest is Vlautin recounting his memories of meeting the late Mississippi author Larry Brown.
In the past decade, singer/songwriter AUSTIN CUNNINGHAM has been making himself heard – from Nashville’s Music Row to kicking up dust on the Texas music scene. He has also found time to write or co-write songs for top recording artists, such as Hank Williams, Jr., Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, Wynonna, and Del McCoury. He has produced three CDs on his own Senior Partner label: Let That Poor Boy Sing (1999), Where I Come From (2002), and Music in the Money Biz (2005). Austin joined us on Thacker before heading out for an evening set at Taylor Grocery.
Tune in this Saturday to Mississippi Public Broadcasting at 7PM (90.3 in Oxford) immediately following A Prairie Home Companion.
---Thacker Mountain Radiowww.ThackerMountain.comBroadcast live on Thursdays,5:30PM on Rebel Radio 92.1 FM

Henry Young and the Jimmie Rodgers Stamp

How many of you have heard about or saw The Jimmie Rodgers postage stamp??Heres the story about how it all came about in a nut shell ! I came across this article written by a friend of this man and thought it worth sharing.................. let me take you back a little to the middle 70's when a man that was soon to become a good friend of ours sent us a piece of notebook paper with a sketch drawn out on it of a man, on the man's head was a railroad cap and the man had both his thumbs sticking up kinda leaning over his guitar.
Of course the man was supposed to be Jimmie Rodgers and what this man had drawn was supposed to be a stamp, and while I was looking at this crude drawing, I was thinking, it will be a cold day in St. Petersburg before this is ever something we'll be lickin' and stickin' on a letter, because in those years people were sending the Postmaster pictures of everything from their dog to their grandmother hoping they would soon see it on a stamp.
BUT my friend was no quitter, he made copies of that drawing and sent it to everyone he thought would read his letter, from the President on down. He never mentions the fact about how much he knew about Jimmie Rodgers, but he did mention that he to had been a brakeman for the railroads..The truth is, this man probably knows more about Jimmie Rodgers than any one else living today, not only was he doing a radio show in Delano, California playing all of Jimmie's records, and we mean the original 78's scratches and all, and they were all his, and he had a story to go with every single record, like when they were recorded, where they were recorded and probably how Jimmie was feeling and the clothes he was wearing on that particular day.
My friends name is "HENRY YOUNG" age has caught up with him now, but unlike most of us that never quite reach that one big dream, Henry did, because on May the 24th. 1978 Henry was sitting on a stage in Meridian, Mississippi, also on that stage and standing before a packed house in front of a microphone was the daughter of the great Jimmie Rodgers , Anita Rodgers Court, and almost the first words out of her mouth were these, "If it had not have been for Henry Young, there would have been NO stamp of my father".
Of course after others could see how far this had gone, naturally they tried to take credit for it, but Henry knew and the Rodgers family knew, and as I watched that show from the video that Henry had sent us, that old piece of notebook paper flashed through my mind, with a man and a guitar and two thumbs up, and I thought to my self, by god you did it Henry.
On November the 3rd. 1961 Jimmie Rodgers name was placed at the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee, as the first entrant into the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME.
Like Jimmie Rodgers, Henry Young's life centered around the Railroads, he to was a brakeman and he to loved the music, but I think Henry thought most about the honesty of Jimmie's music and how much it was a part of the people, a real part. People were poor in those days and usually only a few could afford the price of a record, but that seemed to be o.k., Henry would either go to a friends or stop by a store where they happened to be playing the latest J.R. record and a few times more of hearing it would know all the words and of course the first thing he would say when he ran across another friend was, "Have you heard Jimmie's new record" ?.

Hospitality Night

Welcome to "TISBA"
The International Singing Brakeman Association is in Meridian, Mississippi.
Our next hospitality night will be Thursday July 17, 2008. 6:30 meeting for members only. 7:00 open to the public. Admission -$ 2.00
Please bring a covered dish.
Hospitality Room at the Best Western Hotel on South Frontage Road in Meridian , Mississippi.

EMCC HOSTS THE SUCARNOCHEE REVUE

EMCC HOSTS THE SUCARNOCHEE REVUE




The Sucarnochee Revue is coming to East Mississippi Community College Scooba, Mississippi on Friday, July 18. The Revue, a celebration of musicians from the Black Belt region of Mississippi and Alabama, played to a sell-out crowd last summer during its first visit to EMCC. And Revue founder Jacky “Jack” White says he plans to make a habit of visiting the college’s Scooba campus.
Show time is 7 p.m. at Stennis Auditorium; tickets are $10. If you want to make a night of it, come early and have dinner on campus at the cafeteria. Dinner will be served from 5 p.m. until 6:15 p.m.; meal tickets are $6.
The lineup of Sucarnochee Revue talent includes: Nash Street of Starkville, winner this year of the 26th Annual Colgate Country Showdown at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville; Jacky “Jack” White; Second Mile; Carl Ray; Karen Elmore; Track 45; the Watermill Opry Band; Britt Gully; J. Burton Fuller; “Mississippi” Chris Sharp and the Jang-a-Lang String Band and Greg Mangum. EMCC alum George Cummings will also perform, as well as two current EMCC employees – bluesman Frank Rogers, who debuted with the Revue last year, and gospel singer Chuck Luke, making his first appearance.
Seating is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance. For ticket inquiries, call (662) 476-5063 or drop by one of these outlets:
Century 21, 4622 Poplar Springs Drive in Meridian
Funky Monkey, 4908 29th Ave. in Meridian
Napa Auto Parts, Highway 16 West in DeKalb
Town and Country, Main Street in DeKalb
City Drug Store, Jefferson Street in Macon
Joy’s Gifts and Flowers , 404 Main Street in Columbus
Galloway Chandler McKinney Insurance, 128 Commerce Street in West Point
Book Mart, 120 East Main Street in Starkville
Click here for more details about the Sucarnochee Revue … and EMCC employee Chuck Luke’s debut!

The Sucarnochee Revue "REVISED"

The Sucarnochee Revue
Tapes live at the Bibb Graves Auditorium at The University of West Alabama in Livingston.
The Show Producer is Jacky Jack White .
Next live tapeing
July 18, 2008 - Sucarnochee Revue - East Mississippi Community College - Scooba, MS 7:00p.m.
Dinner will be $6 per plate and the Review Admission will be $10. Dinner tickets must be bought in advance. They can be purchased at several locations. One location is Century 21, Howell Realty, 4266 Poplar Springs Drive in Meridian, Mississippi.
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The Sucarnochee Revue

The Sucarnochee Revue
Tapes live at the Bibb Graves Auditorium at The University of West Alabama in Livingston.
The Show Producer is Jacky Jack White .
Next live tapeing
July 18, 2008 - Sucarnochee Revue - East Mississippi Community College - Scooba, MS 7:00p.m.
Admission - $5.00

TISBA

The International Singing Brakeman Association is in Meridian, Mississippi.
Our next hospitality night will be Thursday July 17, 2008. 6:30 meeting for members only. 7:00 open to the public. Admission -$ 2.00
Please bring a covered dish.
Hospitality Room at the Best Western Hotel on South Frontage Road in Meridian , Mississippi.
Membership Dues are &10.00 per year.
If you would like to perform at TISBA. Please contact us.
You can also sell your CD's and tapes.
TISBA does not pay for perfomers.