12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost.
And no place has produced more influential American bluesmen and women than the Mississippi Delta. So it s only fitting to celebrate some of the most noted musicians who came from Mississippi or whose ties to the genre were formed here.
Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost.
In cities where Black musicians were forcibly told where they could and could not play, artists perfected songs that stand today among the most important contributions to American musical canon.
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Thacker Mountain Radio Hour is Back, Featuring Nikki Giovanni and Bobby Rush
January 20, 2021
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Oxford’s award-winning music and literature show will open its spring season this weekend with two legends: celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni and veteran bluesman, Bobby Rush. Also featured will be Colorado singer-songwriter, Xanthe Alexis. The show is hosted by Jim Dees and Thacker house band, the Yalobushwhackers.
The broadcast can be heard this Thursday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. on WUMS (92.1 FM in Oxford) and online: https://myrebelradio.com/. The show can also be heard every Friday at 9 a.m. on WYXR Memphis (91.7 FM in Memphis) and online: https://wyxr.org/.