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What happens when you go down to The Crossroads with five great musicians and a world-famous photographer? This happens.

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Cole Furlow, Delta State graduate of the Delta Music Institute, is releasing his first full length release, "End of Days, Why Not You?" from his project DEAD GAZE. Copies will be available to purchase from Mirroruniversetapes.blogspot.com on March 16. Congratulations, Cole!

From left, Tricia Walker, singer and songwriter and director of the Delta Music Institute (DMI), accompanies award winning singer-songwriter Patti Ryan, as Duff Durrough, bandleader for Thacker Mountain Radio’s house band, The Yalobushwhackers, provides musical backing. Ryan was performing one of the most successful country hits of all time, “Looking for Love,” which she co-wrote with Wanda Mallette and musician Bob Morrison. Ryan has two American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, (ASCAP) Pop Awards, 15 ASCAP Country Awards, a Tony nomination, and two Grammy nominations.

Ryan, along with singer-songwriters George Jackson and Troy Jones, and the Yalobushwackers were featured in the live broadcast of Thacker Mountain Radio as a part of the DMI Anniversary Celebration held March 6.

Also included in the DMI Anniversary Celebration was the Mississippi Writers Roundtable for literary artists with a keynote address by Mississippi native, mystery writer and 2010 Harper Lee Award winner Carolyn Haines. The Writers Roundtable was sponsored by The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC), Mississippi Humanities Council, SonEdna Foundation, Inc., Delta Music Institute, and Delta State University, in celebration of the “Year of the Arts.”

The Thacker Mountain Radio show was taped in Studio A of the DMI, housed in historic Whitfield Building on the Delta State campus.