“Get your head out of the bed, you ain’t listenin’ to a word I said. Spray them pits and eat them grits while the Morning Man Show plays them hits!” Such was the snappy patter of Pierce County’s most famous radio voice, Troy Mattox.
The Pierce County Historical Society recently enjoyed a walk down memory lane with Mattox as the featured speaker.
As a teen, Mattox got his start at the local radio station, and after serving in Vietnam, he worked hard to make his dream a reality. In 1979, WKUB 97.7 hit the airwaves, and he later grew his business to include WWUF 105.1 and WSGT 107.1. Many society members fondly recalled listening to those stations while working in the tobacco fields or catching Georgia Football games on the radio.
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