Live show and TV taping! Thursday, April 9 – Off Square Books – Return to our former broadcast home!
Off Square Books is located at 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS.
Doors: 5:30 pm
Show: 6 pm
**NOTE: This show will be filmed by Mississippi Public Broadcasting for telecast later this year.**
Book signing: 7 pm
Guests:
Author: Gin Phillips – Ruby Falls – Based on a true story, “… brooding tale of murder, lust, and survival… as disturbing as it is mesmerizing… explores the darkest, most primal corners of the human heart.” – Kirkus Reviews
Music: Delta String Band – Acoustic roots!
Music: Prayer Bailey – Funky blues!
Hosts: Jim Dees with our house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers
Airtimes:
Thursday, April 9 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, April 15 – 10 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday, April 16 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, April 18
5 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, April 19
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
6 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Archived here: Thacker Mountain Radio Hour – WYXR | 91.7 FM | MEMPHIS
Gin Phillips is the author of Ruby Falls (Atlantic Crime) a classic of the “locked room” genre of mysteries.
In 1932, a young woman gets entangled in a gruesome murder mystery when a publicity stunt in a deep underground cave goes dangerously awry.
One body. Five suspects. Total darkness.
Money and desperate people collide in the heat of the Great Depression.
“… brilliantly brooding, this story of murder, lust, and survival is as disturbing as it is mesmerizing…”
Based on a true incident, “Fearlessly explores the darkest, most primal corners of the human heart.” – Kirkus Reviews
Gin Phillips is the author of six novels, ranging from historical fiction to literary thriller to middle grade. Her work has been sold in 29 countries.
Gin’s debut novel was, The Well and the Mine. Her novel, Fierce Kingdom, was named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR and Kirkus Reviews.
Her novels have been named as selections for Indie Next, Book of the Month, and the Junior Library Guild.
She lives with her family in Birmingham, AL.
The Delta String Band is an acoustic band from Greenville, Mississippi, playing music “the old school way.”
The group consists of: Charles Sullivan, guitar and vocals; David Morgan, mandolin and vocals; and Cody Ruth, double bass, viol and vocals. They also feature fiddler Amanda Mayo-Saalwaechter.
Singles include, Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy, Wolves A Howlin, Who Broke the Lock.
Prayer Bailey is a vocalist, songwriter/instrumentalist from Horn Lake, MS. She has recently made appearances at blues festivals across the region, including Chicago and the Women in Blues shows in Clarksdale, MS.
Prayer has wowed our Thacker audiences with her smooth soulful voice and funkified take on such gritty classics as “Houng Dog” and Wang Dang Doodle.”
