This week: Clarksdale blues with Terry "Big T" Williams! Plus flights of dark fancy in The Wrong Heaven and some old-time Americana.
The guests: Author Amy Bonnaffons (The Wrong Heaven), with musical guests roots musician Kelly Hunt and bluesman Terry “Big T” Williams
The time: Saturday, October 6, 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
Amy Bonnaffons
Amy Bonnaffons is author of the story collection The Wrong Heaven (Little, Brown). In the ten stories making up this book, anything is possible: bodies can transform, inanimate objects come to life, angels appear and disappear.
Garden and Gun magazine calls the book "darkly comic and visionary."
Terry "Big T" Williams
Guitarist Terry “Big T” Williams began his apprenticeship on guitar at age 11 in Clarksdale with blues legend “Mr. Johnnie” Billington. Mr. Johnnie taught him the basics, and Big T learned the rest on the road backing up Big Jack Johnson, the Jelly Roll Kings, Wesley “Junebug” Jefferson, Big George Brock and many others.
His CDs include Jump Back and Meet Me in the Cottonfield. Williams lives in Clarksdale.
Kelly Hunt
Kelly Hunt is an Americana/roots singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Memphis, she now is now based out of Kansas City, MO. Accompanied by her 1920s tenor banjo (“Ira”) and guitar (“Vernon”), Kelly’s songs meld traditions of folk, blues, classic country, and old-time music. Her debut album, Even the Sparrow, is forthcoming. Hunt is set to embark on a national tour this month accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Stas’ Heaney.
