This week, Rev. John Wilkins returns to the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour! Plus, tales of Amish spaceships, animated Faulkners, Cary Grant in a cornfield ... and Love Moor!
The time: Saturday, September 22, 7 p.m. Central on your MPB radio station or online
Your hosts: Jim Dees and house band the Yalobushwhackers
Click here for more information about Thacker Mountain Radio Hour—celebrating the music and stories of the emerging South.
Featuring
Rev. John Wilkins
Born and raised in Memphis, Reverend John Wilkins has roots in North Mississippi. On his latest CD, You Can’t Hurry God (Big Legal Mess), his music rocks with a nod to Memphis beats and Mississippi Hill Country blues. His rousing live performances now feature Wilkins’s three daughters adding soulful back-up vocals.
Wilkins’ father was the influential musician the Rev. Robert Wilkins, whose song “Prodigal Son” was later covered by the Rolling Stones.
Michael Martone
Michael Martone’s latest book is the quirky story collection The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions From Indiana and Beyond (Univ. of Alabama Press). In it, Martone chronicles his native Midwest with a keen eye, his trademark experimental story structures, and his gift for finding the marvelous in the mundane.
These off-beat stories include time travel across time zones from Ohio to Indiana, the “death” of baseball’s Derek Jeter, a convention of reanimated William Faulkners, how a beer bottle can serve as a telescope, and how the Amish power their spaceships with windmills.
“Once again, the Mark Twain of metafiction offers us a collection of fictions and beautiful universes—including our own.”
—Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World: Stories
Love Moor
Love Moor (Erica Andrew) was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Miami, and is now based in Birmingham. Her neo-soul tunes reflect those various geographical locales and revolve around themes of sexuality, nostalgia, abandonment, and self-love. Her album Simp Girl was produced by Robot House’s Angel “Suaze” Perez. Her previous CD is Blu Polka Dots.
“Erica Andrew makes assured and ingratiating R&B that doesn’t hit a nerve so much as slide under the skin when no one’s looking.”
— NPR
