On air and online: Thursday, July 13 – Sunday, July 16, The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour revisists our 2019 show at Duling Hall in Jackson, MS at the Mississippi Book Festival. Our guests include bestselling author of Sex and the City Candace Bushnell, soul/rock/pop band, The New Respects and Memphis singer-songwriter Grace Askew.
The show is hosted by Jim Dees and Thacker house band the Yalobushwhackers. (From Aug, 2019).
Air times:
Air times:
Thursday, July 13 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS – University of Mississippi
Friday, July 14 – 6 am (CT) WYXR Memphis Community Radio
Saturday, July 15 – 3 pm (ET) WUTC University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
7pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, July 16 at 3 pm (ET) – WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
Candace Bushnell is the author of Sex and the City, a bestselling collection of essays that was turned into a landmark HBO television series and two films. Her latest book is Is There Still Sex in the City? (Grove Atlantic).
Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, the new book follows a cohort of female friends—Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace—as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There’s “Cubbing,” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment—a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee.
From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today’s relationship landscape and the types that roam it.
Bushnell’s previous books include, Lipstick Jungle, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Trading Up, Four Blondes, Summer and the City, and Killing Monica.
The New Respects are a family band from Nashville, the Fitzgerald siblings – Darius and twins Alexandria and Alexis – and their cousin Jasmine Mullen – who perform energetic indie rock that encompasses blues, rock and soul. Their latest releases are the singles Coffee in the Morning and Family and the five-song EP, Don’t Panic.
Popular on the summer touring circuit, The New Respects are veterans of the Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza festivals.
Grace Askew is a singer-songwriter from Memphis. Her albums include Adobe Red and Denim and Diesel.
Askew was a contestant on Season 4 of NBC’s The Voice and has won numerous songwriting awards, including Unsigned Only (First Place, Americana, 2017), the International Songwriting Competition (First Place, Americana, 2016), and the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (2014 Grand Prize, Folk).
Her previous CDs include Scaredy Cat and Until They Lay Me Down to Rest. Her singles include Cactus Lady (REMIX) and Yours.
