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
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
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