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Scotty. aka Uncle Scotty.
Somnolent, Sardonic, Spongeworthy
Scotty is originally from Cape Girardeau, MO. He started his fruitful career as a paperboy. When Scotty was in 5th grade, his brother was a patient at St. Jude’s and his dad helped organize a radiothon. These were the days when stations didn’t really hold radiothons, so it wasn’t a big deal. Scotty went to school to collect money the day of the radiothon and delivered it to the station. The station was based out of trailer and for some reason he was hooked! He was fortunate enough to get his very first radio job with a station he had grown up listening too!
Over Scotty’s years being in the Country Music Radio Station arena, he has had some incredible opportunities to see amazing concerts, meet artists, and of course his favorite part, meet the listeners! His first “real” concert was Huey Lewis & the News and The Robert Cray Band at SIU Arena in Carbondale. It was his first of many road trips to a concert! This was the moment he knew “It was hip to be square.”
If you ask Scotty who his favorite artist is, he’ll tell you “I have 100 songs on my “top 10 songs of all time” list. In his opinion James Taylor is the greatest artist of all time, followed VERY closely by Merle Haggard. He did not grow up listening to old country but when he came to it later life, he completely immersed himself in it!
Scotty has one thing in particular on his “bucket list.” He wants to dunk a basketball! It is ONE thing he has never done but would LOVE to experience. Scotty and his “mates” used to play around on an 8-foot basketball hoop and he was tall enough to dunk on that one. However, he always wished he could do it just once on the real 10-foot hoop!
Clear 99 has been an incredible blessing for Scotty over the past 10 years. It’s a heritage station with great & loyal listeners. Occasionally he does miss his small town high school basketball play-by-play. Early in his career he spent every Tuesday & Friday night in a high school gym, and he misses the squeak of the shoes and the smell of the popcorn.
Name Ted
Its been a real treat to listen to you and Carrisa every morning the last 3 months. I`m all over the USA working federal disasters and get to listen to lots of country radio stations.You two are at the last rung on the ladder and have one heck of a great show.Thanks for making the drive in from Columbia to Jefferson City every morning not quite so dull.Good luck at the CMA`s
Billy
Scotty, I have enjoyed listening to you since you were at Poplar Bluff. I grew up in New Madrid Missouri and made my way to the other corner of the state in Northwest Missouri in Fairfax. I have came down to Jefferson City to work at Callaway for outages on loan from my home nuclear plant in Nebraska. When I first heard you I thought no way that is not Uncle Scotty a knew as a kid back at Poplar Bluff. Once I heard Carrisa refer to you as Uncle Scotty I knew it had to be you. I always wondered where you went! I went on the web and by hearing you later referring to Cape and Bootheel area it was 100%. I happening to be going through the area the other day on my way home and it was a weekday in the morning. I turned your station on and it was nice to here your voice. I did learn that you have a new sidekick that sounded great. I still wonder were did Carrisa end up?