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.
Visit thackermountain.com. ---Thacker Mountain Radiowww.ThackerMountain.comBroadcast live on Thursdays,5:30PM on Rebel Radio 92.1 FM
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.
Visit thackermountain.com. ---Thacker Mountain Radiowww.ThackerMountain.comBroadcast live on Thursdays,5:30PM on Rebel Radio 92.1 FM
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