Hello Backstory Fans and Friends. If you happen to be driving around Nashville and find yourself near the Loveless Cafe on Saturday afternoon, well just pull the car over right there in the parking lot, open up the sunroof and enjoy a few hours of a great ecletic mix of songs and stories on BACKSTORY with River Jordan at 98.9fm Nashville, or you can put your feet up inside the house and just listen via the world wide web at This weeks Company is that Mississippi Sissy, author and journalist Kevin Sessums. Nevermind the rave reviews and comments of accomplished writers - okay - mind them since here is just one for you to chew on:

"Mississippi Sissy is a book I've been waiting for most of my life, though I didn’t fully understand that fact until I read the book. We have, as it turns out, been sorely missing a book by a writer who is equally at home with Flannery O'Connor and Jacqueline Susann; who understands that Eudora Welty and Johnny Weissmuller are not only members of the same species but are intricately related; whose wit and insight are up to the highs, lows, and in-betweens that compose life as we know it. Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure."
— Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours

The fact is, you’ll greatly enjoy Kevin's ability to pull up a chair just like you are in the same room and look across the space that rests between you and tell a story. And that’s what Backstory is about. Storytelling, writing, living.

Kevin is currently a contributing editor at Allure magazine after spending fourteen years at Vanity Fair in that same capacity. Before joining Vanity Fair, he was executive editor for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. His work has also appeared in Elle, Travel + Leisure, Playboy, POZ, Out, and Show People magazines.

So more Great Music, Great Stories, And Great Company this Saturday at 98.9fm Nashville at Radio Free Nashville 4-6CST