The Great River
Thursday, May 29 - 6 pm
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the long-running public radio showcase for music and literature, is coming to Greenwood!
About the Event
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, the long-running public radio showcase for music and literature, is coming to Greenwood, MS. The show will record an episode at the Carl Center, 102 West Washington St., Greenwood, MS, on Thursday, May 29 at 6 pm.
Admission is free and the public is invited. Doors at 5:30 pm.
Performers on the one-hour show will include Boyce Upholt, author of The Great River – The Making & the Unmaking of the Mississippi. Musical guests will include roots rocker (and Leflore Countian) Anne Freeman and blues dynamo Nikki Hill.
Hosts are Jim Dees with house band, Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhackers.
The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, now in its 27th year on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, will not broadcast live but will record the May 29th Greenwood program for air later this summer.
Upholt will join the audience to sign copies of The Great River on site after the show.
In 2005, Thacker Mountain Radio Hour received the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award for Broadcast Excellence. In 2017, the show was awarded a “Citation of Merit” from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
On October 20, 2022, The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour celebrated 25 years on the air.
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Boyce Upholt
Boyce Upholt is author of The Great River – The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (Norton).
In this landmark of natural history, Upholt tells the epic story of a wild and unruly river and the centuries of efforts to control it.
Boyce Upholt is a journalist and essayist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications.
He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“The Great River is easily one of the best books ever written about the Mississippi.” – John Barry, author, Rising Tide.
“[A]n exceptional natural history that never loses sight of the human players involved.” – Publishers Weekly(starred review).
“… fascinating lore alongside jolting conservation truths.” (Garden & Gun)
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Nikki Hill
Blues/rock musician Nikki Hill, originally from Durham, NC, has honed her gritty blues/rock/punk style after years living in musical Mississippi River towns such as St. Louis, New Orleans, and, currently, Memphis, TN.
Her releases include the EP Soul Meets Country, Heavy Hearts Hard Fists and Feline Roots.
“Think Tina Turner fronting AC/DC and you’ll have half of the picture. She’s a machine…you’ve got no excuse if you miss seeing her…
Nikki Hill is a revelation, her band masters of rocket-fueled bluesy swing, her voice the beacon which calls you home… a vocal powerhouse who don’t mess around.” — Rolling Stone
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Anne Freeman
Anne Freeman is a singer-songwriter based in Oxford, MS, originally from the Mississippi Delta.
Her releases include the single, “City Watched Me Burn” from her album, Keep It Close, which bridges indie pop and alternative country.