Oxford Music Snob

The current issue of The Local Voice has a great interview with Adrian Dickey regarding the new album.

Sanders Bohlke will open around 9:15.

Tonight’s show at Proud Larry’s should be a great one!

2nd Annual Hillbilly Hayride
Friday November 6, 2009 at 8:00 PM
- 18+ Show –

TICKETS: $10
DOORS: 8:00PM

JIMBO MATHUS ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR 2009 HILLBILLY HAYRIDE

ON FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 2009 AT THE LYRIC THEATER IN OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – (OCTOBER 14, 2009)  Mississippi entertainer Jimbo Mathus has announced that Shannon McNally & Hot Sauce, Rocket 88, and Wolf Ruffin will be the featured guests on this year’s HILLBILLY HAYRIDE, an annual fall  showcase of Oxford-area musical talent.

Guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and producer Jimbo Mathus grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He first caught the public’s ear in the 1990’s with the hyper-ragtime vaudeville act, The Squirrel Nut Zippers. Since then, hes released many recordings of his own in a style he describes as Mississippi Music. “Basically,” Mathus says, “I combine the myriad styles of deep roots music in a type of alchemy. Blues, country, gospel and soul all go into the equation equally.”

Mathus, backed by his band, TRI-STATE COALITION, will perform songs from his current compact disc, JIMMY THE KID, internationally released this fall on Oxford-based indie label, Hill Country Records.  McNally and her band, HOT SAUCE, will peform songs from her new release, COLDWATER, which is receiving critical acclaim. Both COLDWATER and JIMMY THE KID were produced by the late Jim Dickinson.

Oxford roots-rock band, ROCKET 88, will take the stage at 9:45 , and Sardis, Mississippi, country-risque songwriter, WOLF RUFFIN, will perform songs from his debut record, GREATEST HITS, beginning at 9 o’clock with his band RUFFIN READY RHTHYM BOYS.  Guest vocalists, HONKY TONK ANGELS, will also be on hand as the background singers for Mathus and company.

In addition, Mathus and band will present an acoustic preview of the 2009 HILLBILLY HAYRIDE on Thursday, Nov. 5th at THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO SHOW, at 6 p.m. at Off-Square Books in Oxford.

Tickets  for the 2009 HLLBILLY HAYRIDE are $10 at the door. Ages 18 and up will be admitted. The Lyric Theater is located at 1109 Van Buren Ave., Oxford, Miss.

SCHEDULE for HILLBILLY HAYRIDE 2009

  8:00 P.M. – DOORS

  9:00 P.M. – WOLF RUFFIN & THE RUFFIN READY RHYTHM BOYS

  9:45  P.M. – ROCKET 88

10:30 P.M. – SHANNON MCNALLY & HOT SAUCE

11:15  P.M. – JIMBO MATHUS & TRI-STATE COALITION

From my inbox:

Roy Blount Jr. is the author of twenty-one books, including Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up North (Knopf) and his most recent, Alphabet Juice (Farrar, Straus) which is now available in paperback. His essays, articles, and stories have appeared in 166 different periodicals. The New York Times Book Review has said of his work: [Blount] is “In serious contention for the title of America’s most cherished humorist….” In addition to his writing, Blount serves as a usage consultant to the American Heritage Dictionary and is a panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me. The author grew up in Decatur, Georgia and currently lives in western Massachusetts. (royblountjr.com)

Jett Williams is the daughter of the legendary Hank Williams. She is the author of Ain’t Nothin’ as Sweet as My Baby (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990) which chronicled her long legal struggle to prove her father’s paternity. Her CDs include, You Are On My Lonely Mind, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Honk, and Lost and Found. (jettwilliams.com)

Jessica B. Harris is the author of eight critically acclaimed cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora. Her latest book is, Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim. In this lively tome, Harris has brought together 150 vibrant recipes from across the Americas, accompanied by cultural and historical anecdotes and illustrated with beautiful antique postcards. A former restaurant critic for the Village Voice, Harris is currently a lecturer in the department of romance languages at Queens College in New York City. (africooks.com)

Frye Gaillard is writer in residence at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He is the author of twenty books, exploring the history, politics, religion and culture of the American South. His book, Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed Americas (Univ. of Alabama Press) won the 2005 Lillian Smith Award given by the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta.

Kathryn Scheldt is a singer-songwriter from Fairhope, Ala. and the author of two books on guitar playing. Her CDs include, Getting Ready a collection of originals and spirituals, In the Middle of it All, and her latest, Southern Girl. Scheldt and Gaillard often perform together, presenting programs on “the literature of Southern music,” at venues across the South. (shellkatenterprisesllc.com)

Join host Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers, Thursday, October 29 at 6PM at Off Square Books. If you can’t make it in person, tune in to Rebel Radio, 92.1FM in Oxford. Don’t forget our rebroadcast every Saturday night at 7PM on Mississippi Public Broadcasting immediately following A Prairie Home Companion.

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Parrish’s should be the place to be tonight, as Jake Fussell and Jamison Hollister get things kicked off around 9:30.  They’ll be followed by Jamie Posey, Rosamond Posey, and Nathan Robbins of Rocket 88.

One of my favorite Oxford bands, Rocket 88, will play Rooster’s tonight.

Machine Gun Kelley and her G-Men will open at 9:00.