His latest album was just released on April 19, I Like It Down Here. A Mobile native, he’s now based in Nashville. Will Kimbrough is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Thacker host Jim Dees will sign copies of his recent book, The Statue and the Fury, at 3 pm at Page and Palette. He lives in Fairhope, AL.Ĭheck out this excellent podcast interview with Rick from Garden and Gun that includes a playlist: īragg will sign copies of The Best Cook in the World, from 6-7 pm at Cedar Street with books provided by Page and Palette of Fairhope. The book includes many Bragg family recipes recorded for the first time and “handed down skillet by skillet, from one generation of Braggs to the next.”īragg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, journalist, and author of two bestselling memoirs, All Over But the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man. But she can tell you the secrets to perfect mashed potatoes, corn pudding, redeye gravy, pinto beans and hambone, stewed cabbage, short ribs, chicken and dressing, biscuits and butter rolls.” Her notion of farm-to-table is a flatbed truck. She measures in “dabs” and “smidgens” and “tads” and “you know, hon, just some.” She cannot be pinned down on how long to bake corn bread (“about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the mysteries of your oven”). In the opening pages of The Best Cook in the World, Bragg writes: “ Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. “This should be a great evening.”įollowing the one-hour live recording of the show, Kimbrough and his band will play a one hour set beginning at 8:20 pm. “We’re really excited about hosting the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour’s Alabama debut at our venue,” said Ben Jernigan, spokesman for the Cedar Street Social Club. The Cedar Street Social Club is located at #4, 2106 N Cedar Street in Mobile. Admission is free though seating will be limited and offered on a first-come, first serve basis. The show is hosted by Thacker Mountain’s house band and Mississippi writer, Jim Dees.

Along with Bragg, the show will feature Mobile native, multi-instrumentalist Will Kimbrough plus Birmingham songwriter Love Moor (Erica Andrew). The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, from Oxford, Mississippi, will bring its mix of author readings and eclectic musical performances to Alabama for the first time at the Cedar Street Social Club. The “food memoir” is a love letter to his mother, Margaret, and a rollicking history lesson about her (very) colorful family and their recipes, food ways and shenanigans. Bragg’s latest book, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table, has just been released in paperback. Bestselling author Rick Bragg will appear in Mobile, AL on Saturday, May 4 at 7 pm as part of The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, an award-winning, Mississippi-based music and literature show.

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