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July 11, 2005
Soul Searching~Finding Max W. Hackett
At the Daily Bailout website, an online source of commentary and analysis, Dr. Olin Ivey reflects on the short happy life of Max W. Hackett at WGOW-FM. You may read an excerpt from Ivey's At the Threshold below:
Marcia Ball has soul. Watching her nimble but hard driving fingers attack the keyboard and listening to her razza-matazz renditions of original and arranged numbers, one can come to no other conclusion than this: Marcia’s combination of blues, R&B, ballads, and soul music has taken the honky-tonk milieu of her hometown of Benton (Louisiana) to a deep level of feeling about life itself. She’s a soul woman.
As I listened to Marcia Ball, I couldn't help thinking of Max W. Hackett. Max ain't just soul man; he is soul.
Max stands alone as the godfather of talk radio in Chattanooga. I did not know him back then when he was on the cutting edge of a new form of radio programming – the local talk show host. But even his present-day detractors speak not begrudgingly--but glowingly--about what he did in those early days of talk radio.
CLICK TO FIND THE SOUL OF TALK RADIO
Posted by wjbailes at July 11, 2005 10:42 AM
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Do you know where Max W. Hackett is now?
Posted by: Ned Carriger at January 17, 2006 9:56 PM