Thacker Mountain is delighted to welcome author (and frequent visitor and friend) Ralph Eubanks and his evocative new memoir A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, which takes the reader on a literary road trip from Jesmyn Ward's Gulf Coast to William Faulkner's hills. We’ll talk to Ralph about landscape and literature and why Eudora Welty favored a certain Jitney Jungle store.

The musical guests are rocker Linda Gail Lewis (sister of Jerry Lee) and the incomparable gospel harmonies of The Como Mamas

Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers

Air times:

Thursday

6pm (CT) WUMS – University of Mississippi

Friday

9am (CT) WYXR Memphis Community Radio

Saturday

3pm (ET) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

7pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting

9pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio