Thacker Mountain Radio

Thacker Mountain Radio had a full house last week at Nutt Auditorium for our food show, but this week we’ll be back home at Off Square Books. The cool snap is supposed to warm up by then, so stop by for our Halloween Eve show.
We’ll summon the spooks with author Michael Connelly who has become one of the nation’s bestselling crime novelists since discovering a love for writing at the University of Florida where he studied under author Harry Crews. His latest mystery novel is The Brass Verdict (Little, Brown) which features his popular character, detective Harry Bosch, in his 13th appearance. For Verdict, Connelly takes us to Hollywood for a case involving a murdered studio executive and his lover. Here, Bosch teams up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to chase the killer before he strikes again – possibly making one of the sleuths the next victim. Three of the last Harry Bosch novels have debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Connelly lives with his family in Florida. (michaelconnelly.com)
A native of the Mississippi Delta, pianist Eden Brent is known for her vast repertoire of jazz and blues standards. A protégé of the late Boogaloo Ames, she now performs extensively throughout the south and Europe. Her latest CD is Mississippi Number One (Yellow Dog Records) which is a tribute to her home on Mississippi state Highway 1. The disc features her own Memphis-style, "He'll Do the Same Thing To You," as well as urban soul, "Afraid to Let Go," the gospel-tinged "Until I Die," and the blues classic "Trouble in Mind." Also, don’t miss her mouth-watering rendition of “Fried Chicken.” (edenbrent.com)
The Lexington Brothers, Micah Ginn (aka Durant) on vocals, and Travis “Moon Pie” Curtis (aka Pickens) on guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, and vocals, wear their love for the Ole Miss Rebels on the sleeve of the red and blue blazers. Their CD, I’m for the Red and Blue is now available. Though their lyrics and subject matter are humorous, the Lexington Brothers’ sound is pure country. The duo recently made the finals of CMT’s “Do You Duet?” television show. (myspace.com/lexington brothers)
This week we’ll introduce the winner of the Thacker Mountain Fiction Contest who will read their winning entry on the air. The contest called for a partial short story to be submitted with future installments and an ending to be written by a series of guest writers.
This should be a fun show so make plans to join host Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers, at 6PM Thursday, Oct. 30, at Off Square Books. If you can’t make it in person, tune in to Rebel Radio, 92.1 FM. Don’t forget our re-broadcast every Saturday night at 7 PM on Mississippi Public Broadcasting immediately following A Prairie Home Companion.
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Railfest

October 31 - Nov. 1, 2008Event: Soule’ Live Steam Festival and Railfest “Whistlestop Weekend”Friday, Oct. 31 – “Sparks in the Dark” at duskSponsor: Soule’ Industrial Museum Association and City of Meridian RailfestLocation: Soule’ Steam and Feed Works and Union Station’s Singing Brakeman ParkAddress: Soule’ – 402 19th Avenue – Downtown Meridian, Mississippi Union Station- 1900 Front Street – Downtown MeridianTime: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.Information: Call Greg Hatcher 601-917-3471 or Lauderdale County Tourism 601-482-8001

Hospitality Night

Our next hospitality night will be Thursday November 20, 2008. 6:00 pm doors open to the public. Admission -$ 5.00Please 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.
www.tisba.net

‘Remember When’ salutes first lady legends

‘Remember When’ salutes first lady legends
Special to The StarIn chapter No. 210 of "Remember When" producer Carl Fitzgerald said: "We will salute County Music's First Ladies Carrie Rodgers and her songwriter sister, Elsie McWilliams. In helping salute his grandmother, Elsie and his great-aunt, Carrie, Meridian singer Rick McWilliams will be the special guest."This historical chapter of the 25 year old radio program will share a golden era of Meridian's musical history and will be heard on radio station AM 1010 WMOX, according to station manager Bill Smith. The time of broadcast will be from noon-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25.The show will also feature a memorial tribute to Hamasa Temple Shrine Clown "Pee Wee" Russell, who passed away last week. "Pee Wee" had entertained kids and adults for many years and "touched all our hearts over this entire area," said Fitzgerald. A few listeners will be invited to participate on the program by calling in their funny stories concerning "Pee Wee." Some other hometown stories will be shared this week and Noel Adcock is the musical co-host of the show.Call in numbers to the program are (601) 693-1010 and (601) 693-1891. "Remember When" is a copyrighted feature of Carl Fitzgerald's archives.

Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs dies at 72

Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs dies at 72
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
DETROIT (AP) — Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, who possessed one of the most dynamic and emotive voices of all the Motown singers, died Friday at 72. He had been ill recently and died in his sleep at the Detroit house he shared with his wife, said Dana Meah, the wife of a grandson. The Wayne County medical examiner's office also confirmed the death.
With Stubbs in the lead, the Four Tops sold millions of records, including such hits as "Baby I Need Your Loving," "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)."
The group performed for more than four decades without a change in personnel. Stubbs' death leaves one surviving member of the original group: Abdul "Duke" Fakir.
Stubbs "fits right up there with all the icons of Motown," said Audley Smith, chief operating officer of the Motown Historical Museum. "His voice was as unique as Marvin's or as Smokey's or as Stevie's."
The Four Tops began singing together in 1953 under the group name the Four Aims and signed a deal with Chess Records. They later changed their names to the Four Tops to avoid being confused with the Ames Brothers.
They also recorded for Red Top, Riverside and Columbia Records and toured supper clubs.
The Four Tops signed with Motown Records in 1963 and produced 20 Top-40 hits over the next 10 years, making music history with the other acts in Berry Gordy's Motown stable.
Their biggest hits were recorded between 1964 and 1967 with the in-house songwriting and production team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. Both 1965's "I Can't Help Myself" and 1966's "Reach Out" went to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart.
Other hits included "Shake Me, Wake Me" (1966); "Bernadette" and "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (both 1967).
They toured for decades afterward and reached the charts as late as 1988 with "Indestructible" on Arista Records. In 1986, Stubbs provided the voice for Audrey II the man-eating plant in the film "Little Shop of Horrors."
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Original Top Lawrence Payton died of liver cancer in 1997. Renaldo "Obie" Benson died of lung cancer in 2005.
Stubbs was born in 1936 in Detroit and attended Pershing High School, where he sang with Fakir. They met fellow Detroiters Payton and Benson while singing at a mutual friend's birthday party, then decided to form a group.
"These are four of the greatest people I have ever known. They were major pros even before they came to Motown," Gordy said when the Four Tops' star was unveiled in Hollywood.
Stubbs is survived by his wife, five children and 11 grandchildren.
Associated Press writer Jim Irwin contributed to this report.

Hope Hollow Ministries

This past summer Hope Hollow Ministries provided:
1. around 70 children, youth and young adults with disabilities a day camp experience,
2. volunteering experience to around 100 children, youth, young and older adults ( 3 who started college this fall and will be majoring in special education)
3. community members awareness of disabilities and issues affecting families

Come and enjoy the fun and help Hope Hollow Ministries expand our mission and programs.

Sweetwater Jade will perform Harmonizing for Hope a benefit concert for Hope Hollow Ministries.
October 23, 2008
6:00 p.m.
Madison Center for the Arts (across form First Baptist Church, Madison)

Tickets are $10.00
For ticket information contact
Rebecca Phelps at 601-506-6293 or rebeccakphelps@comcast.net
Mandy Rogers at 601-856-3623 or mom424@aol.com

We have a limited amount of tickets. Tickets that have not been pre-sold will be available at the door.

Harmonizing for Hope benefit concert is being sponsored by Bank Plus.

Hope Hollow Ministries is dedicated to enriching the lives of children and adults with and without special needs by providing unique camping, environmental studies and retreat experiences. This mission is accomplished based on the understanding that, as people of God, we are called to demonstrate love and compassion for one another.
http://hopehollowms.org/directory/

Sweetwater Jade Web site
http://www.sweetwaterjade.com/home.php

Mandy RogersSubscribe to the Parents United Together On Line disAbility News and events calendarwww.parentsunitedtogether.comThe most valuable commodity of today's society is information; to a person with a disability and their family it is essential."The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

Thacker Mountain Radio

Thacker Mountain Radio has been on a roll this fall and we see no reason to step off the gas now. This week’s show will offer Wild West poetry, Memphis jams, as well as a thoroughly researched look at America’s favorite redheaded stranger and bio-diesel guru.
Our featured author this week is JOE NICK PATOSKI who has written about Texas and Texans for four decades. His crowning achievement might very well be his latest book, An Epic Life (Little, Brown) his towering tome (500-plus pages) chronicling the highs and lows (and highs) of country music legend, Willie Nelson. Joe Nick was a staff writer for Texas Monthly for 18 years where he first covered Nelson, and has contributed music articles to most every major publication from The New York Times to No Depression. He also wrote the southern rock chapter for the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and the Memphis chapter for The Voices of Civil Rights, an oral history project in which he interviewed our own Jim Dickinson. Joe Nick is equally at home writing about outdoor life and his vivid reporting from Waveland, MS during the landfall of Katrina will put you directly in the eye of the storm of the century. (www.joenickp.com)
Poet JACK CROCKER is a Mississippi Delta native and the author of the poetry collection, Range Finding, as well as a new collection slated for release this November. He is also a songwriter who signed with Stax co-founder, Estelle Axton, on her Fretone Records in Memphis which later released “Disco Duck.” (Crocker claims no blame ). His eclectic career includes playing baseball for Delta State, earning a Ph.D at Texas Tech and becoming a recording artist, about which he says, “I made a good literature teacher.”
FREEWORLD has rocked the Mid-South for over 20 years with their unique brand of soul/funk-reggae/jam, all with a Memphis beat. The band’s fifth CD, From the Bluff, has just been released and was produced by Master Thacker Bushwhacker, Jim Dickinson. The Memphis Flyer says, “FreeWorld is basically a live animal with a multi-cultural groove that is consistently entertaining. The band stages a musical conversation that they share with the audience.” (www.freeworldjams.com)
Finally, we’ll hear a couple of tunes from local songwriter BRAD HAYDEN who will be accompanied by bassist, physicist and lucky husband, Dave Woolworth.
Make plans to join host Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers, at 6PM Thursday, Oct. 16, at Off Square Books. If you can’t make it in person, tune in to Rebel Radio, 92.1 FM. Don’t forget our re-broadcast every Saturday night at 7 PM on Mississippi Public Broadcasting immediately following A Prairie Home Companion.
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The Sucarnochee Revue

The nationally syndicated radio program, The Sucarnochee Revue, takes the stage Friday, Oct.17 at 7 p.m. for a live taping at Bibb Graves Auditorium at The University of West Alabama.
The show introduces radio listeners in Alabama, Mississippi, and other parts of the nation to the artistic community of performers from the Black Belt region.
The Sucarnochee Revue, presented by UWA and the Sumter County Arts Council, can be heard on radio stations across the country.
Now in its fourth year of production, The Sucarnochee Revue presents authentic Black Belt music. The show not only preserves original music and the works by original artists, but also captures the evolution of that music and its current generation of performers.
The October show will feature all the regulars including Revue producer and host Jacky Jack White, J. Burton Fuller, Britt Gully, Track 45, and Mississippi Chris Sharp and the Jangalang String Band. Plus, the string musicians,Alabama Gravysoppers and singer/songwriter,Davis Raines.
The Alabama Gravysoppers are known for playing unruly 1920 & '30 string band music, including vaudeville and medicine show tunes.

Davis Raines records on APS Records in Nashville where his edgy style of writing has brought him much notice.Raines has a cut on the Grammy nominated album Wave On Wave by Pat Green.
Revue host Jacky Jack White's song "Precious Time" was performed by Chip Greene on MTV's "Making the Band" last week.

General admission to The Sucarnochee Revue is $8. For more information, contact White at 205-652-6680.

"Freedom to Vote Gospel Music Fest."

You are invited to "Freedom to Vote Gospel Music Fest." It will be held on Saturday, October 25, 2008 from 4p.m.-7p.m. at Coots Crossing Covered Pavilion on the upper lake of Bonita Lakes in Meridian, Mississippi. "Come celebrate the privilege that God gives us to vote in America." SOUTHERN REIGN QUARTET from Newton, MS will headline the show and we will also feature local talented artists Alex Goldman and Holly Brand. There is no charge for this event, but a love offering will be collected to help cover costs of having the event as well as to help with SOUTHERN REIGN QUARTET'S ministry. We will also have some local pastors speaking at the event about the importance of voting and praying for our country. The Bible says that "Faith without works is dead." This is clearly an example of why we must vote. Please come and join us in this very worthy cause.

MISSISSIPPI BLUE YODLER FAN CLUB

MISSISSIPPI BLUE YODLER FAN CLUB
FRI. November 07 6:30 PM.
COVERED DISH MEAL
$2:00 ADMISSION
EVERYONE WELCOME
Meridian Masonic Center
2300 11th street
Meridian, Mississippi
INFO: 601-482-1279
johnson950@bellsouth.net

The Sucarnochee Revue

The Sucarnochee Revue
Tapes live at the Bibb Graves Auditorium at The University of West Alabama in Livingston.
Admission $8.00
The Show Producer is Jacky Jack White .
The Sucarnochee Revue
Airs Saturday afternoon
October 11, 2008
Time - 7:00 pm
on WMOX 1010 AM
Meridian, Mississippi
#55
Jacky Jack White, Britt Gully, Jim McBride, Mississippi Chris Sharp, John Mark Stone, Don and Karen McNatt and J. Burton Fuller
The future dates for the show.
All shows start at 7:00 pm.
admission $8.00
Oct 17,2008;Nov 21,2008;Feb 20,2009;April 17, 2009

Thacker Mountain Radio

10-2-08 With Oxford still buzzing from last week’s debate and monumental football victory, Thacker Mountain Radio refuses to take the week off. We think this week’s show will more than keep the buzz going.
We have two authors this week starting with our old pal, New Orleans writer, TOM PIAZZA. Well known as a music writer, and with nine books to his credit, Piazza won a 2004 Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. This week, he will join us to read from his latest book, City of Refuge, (Harper) which is a panoramic novel about two families – one white, one black - whose lives are torn apart by Hurricane Katrina. The novel is the triumphant story of how the two families stitch their lives back together. Noted literary critic, Bob Dylan, said, "Tom Piazza's writing pulsates with nervous electrical tension - reveals the emotions that we can't define."
DIANE WILSON is a fourth-generation shrimper and the author of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas (Chelsea Green, 2005). Wilson began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight and by the time she was 24, she was a shrimp boat captain. After discovering that her home county was the number one toxic polluter in the country, she began her career as an environmental writer/activist, culminating in An Unreasonable Woman. This week on Thacker, she’ll be reading from her newest book, Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus. We’ve received glowing reports about Wilson’s appearance at last week’s southern book convention in Mobile, Ala. and have been advised to get ready to hear “the Word.” We can’t wait.
Our musical guests this week are the HEMPTONES, which feature our beloved sound wizard, Tom Quejay. Bassist Dave Woolworth sent this when we asked for a band bio: “The Hemptones are a spiritually improvisational theocratic tribe based on the religion of dub reggae. They were formed over the past two seasons as a channel of manifestation for what Bill Monroe once identified as the "ancient tones." These "ancient tones" can sometimes be perceived by the untrained ear as cacophonous.” Whew, not sure what that means, but suddenly we have the munchies.
The big windows will be rolled up for this beautiful day so make plans to join host Jim Dees and house band the Yalobushwhackers at 6PM at Off Square Books. If you can’t make it in person, tune in to Rebel Radio, 92.1 FM. Don’t forget our re-broadcast every Saturday night at 7 PM on Mississippi Public Broadcasting immediately following A Prairie Home Companion.
Visit thackermountain.com.
Thacker Mountain Radiowww.ThackerMountain.comBroadcast live on Thursdays,5:30PM on Rebel Radio 92.1 FM

New interview with Gustavo Laurino

New interview with Gustavo Laurino
Hi everyone

We uploaded it on september 27th, the interview with Gustavo Laurino, director of the argentinean web Country2.com and cofounder of International Country Music Day Org.

That day started his main event: the San Pedro Country Music Festival. Some time later a photo link became unstable and erased half of the article, and created a mess in the web. Fortunately our readers emailed us and after some hours we could find the mistake. Sorry about it, Gustavo!. Now all of you can enjoy the article again. It is very interesting. Gustavo has created a multiformula that is working very well in Argentina.

During this event, Rodrigo Haddad received the diploma as 2008 International Country Music Ambassador from Julio Cavallaro, AMCU Vicepresident. Rodrigo was really delighted by the surprise. Thanks to Country2.com and AMCU (Uruguay).

On october 23th, Judy Seale will be interviewed by our friend and collaborator Antón García in Music City USA, his programe in WRVU 91.1 FM Nashville. It will be our chance to give her the diploma. Thanks Antón & Erin!

By the middle of the month we will publish our next interview, with Hermann Lammers Meyer, a german artist with an international profile. The interview is courtesy of Raul Tejeiro (AMCU).

Stay country!

Andoni

http://www.icmday.org