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This year’s Campbell County Relay For Life event is just around the corner and Q-Country WTNQ-FM is proud to once again be a team member. See you there!
Twisted Hillbilly magazine recently profiled Q-Country’s own Chuck Jacobs!
Well, Ole Skip headed for the hills to hunt down a sound I’d heard coming from North of “Metal Mountain”. It is the sweet sound of what we like to call Twisted Music; HillBilly Music! The source of this sound turns out to be DJ Chuck Jacobs at a station with the call letters WTNQ (104.9) in Lafollette, TN. (You can dial’em in WORLD WIDE at WTNQFM.COM.) It is what we at Twisted HillBilly Magazine live for. The music played doesn’t come from “The Programming Cans” that most major broadcast corporations use as a source, but from the mind and heart of a human being. I had the pleasure of sitting with Chuck for about 2 hours and discussing his path to MY MOUNTAINS. He’s a storied soul that has been through a lot and seen very much happen in the music world in his near 30 year tenure as a purveyor of musical broadcasting. He has traveled the nation over, plying his trade, and by the grace of God landed in the Appalachian region. The thing that drew me to this station was the edge filled crossover type format that Chuck employs. A listener might hear a true Country classic back-to-back with a Hank 3 song, or a literal crossover shot like the version of Led Zepplin’s “Rock and Roll” as performed by Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Page. The format this man uses is simple. If he likes it, he plays it and he has our kinda taste. He gets into his set and steers the music in a fluid manner. The set “matches”. Even when he throws a “change up”, no matter how drastic, it works ! I also noticed him to have done something I believe happens rarely , if at all in broadcasting nowadays; Chuck had stacks of CDs contributed by area listeners, whom he petitioned for such. Yep, he asked them what they liked, asked them to burn a CD of their favorites and send it to the station; what a novel concept.;o) Play what your audience wants to hear, not what you say they should hear. You listening out there “Big Time Radio”; (?) Chuck’s got a message for ya in the way he does business and that message is “Work with the people…not ON them.” Adding the public desire to his own genre preferences makes for the best play list I’ve heard in years and one that is rarely, if ever, the same. This is the OLD SCHOOL and proper way to do things in music broadcasting. Chuck comes in early to feel the “groove” he intends to set up in his time slots. Hear that…HE FEELS first, then performs. That’s how you are supposed to deal with art !
On top of being a grade “A” Disc Jockey (and he actually qualifies for that sacred term) Chuck Jacobs is one hell of nice guy. He carries a positive, powerful energy and to hear him on the air in your car, home, or office you get the feeling you are hangin’ out with a friend. His commentary is not only witty, but “In your face”, in it’s content. Chuck will say things on the air that are right off the hip and right out of the heart. I’ve never heard him cross any lines, but I enjoy it when runs right up to the line and heaves a boulder over it. It is the attitude that he brings to the table that makes things work so well. The man is fearless and I believe that’s because of the complete comfort he feels while BRINGIN” IT !!! Aside from the daily shows. Chuck hosts afternoon drive 3p – 7p and he hosts the Saturday morning show known as SOPPIN’ THE GRAVY. This is a full out Bluegrass based set that, of course, has the added excellence of Chuck’s style blended into the mix. If you want to see where ALL the music we METALHEADS love came from, just tune into to this show and you will find the B.P.M. (Beats Per Minute), common structure, and the dark themes we enjoy in the other genre(Death Metal). The big difference is that Bluegrass artists don’t snarl when they describe a dark scene in the music, THEY SMILE which is WAY scarier. I have finally found something, besides a hot Hillbetty, to get me up early on a Saturday. It is so damned refreshing to see that there is still a place in broadcasting for Artists and that place is MOMENTUM BROADCASTING (based in Knoxville, TN), the parent company for WTNQ in good old Lafollette, TN. Remember folks. You can get this station and it’s jewel of a DJ, WORLD FREAKIN’ WIDE at WTNQFM.COM I look forward to crawlin’ back up in them hills again soon to sit shotgun with the Real Deal….Chuck Jacobs. Thanks for the Sit Down Brother.
HB Skip
