Thursday, Nov. 19 – Season Finale! Live show/TV taping! Powerhouse Arts Center 413 South 14th St. Oxford, MS
FREE Admission!
Doors: 5:30 pm – Refreshments
Red Panther Brewing Co. – Cathead Distillery
Show: 6 pm – Book signing: 7 pm
** NOTE: This show will be filmed by Mississippi Public Broadcasting Television. (Air date TBA) **
Author: TBA
Music: Anissa “Bigg Sexyy” Hampton – New single: “Doing My Own Thang”- Entertainer of the Year – Best of Mississippi
Music: Ra’Shad the Blues Kid – Album: Raised on the Blues – Single: “Girl, You Got It Going On” – recorded at Malaco Records
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns and vocalist Damein Wash!
Broadcast/online:
Thursday, Nov. 19 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 FM University of Mississippi
Thursday, Nov. 26 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN
Saturday, Nov. 28
5 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Nov. 29
2 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
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 (one month): Thacker Mountain Radio Hour / WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Born in Chicago and raised in Jackson, MS, Anissa “Bigg Sexyy” Hampton, is known for gritty Southern soul and R&B as she fronts her own H-Funk Band.
The band move came after Annisa spent years singing background vocals for artists such as Willie Clayton, Calvin Richardson and Keeshea Pratt. She has served as an opening act for such performers as Brian McKnight, Regina Bell and “Mr. Gritty Southern Soul” himself, Bobby Rush.
In 2018, she hit with her single, “Big Sexy.”
Her latest single is “Doing My Own Thang.”
Other singles include, “Move the Train,” “Holding On to All Your Good Loving,” and “Doggone Shucky Ducky.”
Anissa was honored in 2023 as the “Entertainer of the Year” at The Best of Mississippi Awards.
She has also won accolades from the Jackson Music Awards and the Soul Music Awards.
A new Blues EP, Variations of Me is forthcoming.
Larry McGill, better known as Ra’Shad the Blues Kid, was born in Laurel, Mississippi — the heart of the Piney Woods in south Mississippi. He was mentored in the blues by the late L.C. Ulmer (1928-2016), a Thacker favorite.
Ra’Shad moved on from L.C.’s acoustic approach and now plays electric guitar with an up tempo, hard-hitting, electric soul/blues band.
Ra’Shad’s latest album, released June 2026, is Raised on the Blues.
In 2023, Ra’Shad was nominated for the Jus Blues “BB King of The Blues” Award. He was also inducted into The Alabama Blues Hall of Fame.
In 2025 Ra’Shad took second place in a crowded world-wide field at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis and was awarded the Lee Oskar Silver Prize.
Ra’Shad the Blues Kids’ latest release is the single, “Girl You Got It Going On,” recorded at Malaco Studios.
Photo: Chloe S.
