All Blues Radio Station

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - What would the home of the blues be without a radio station that plays all blues, all the time? That's just what blues fans in Memphis will get thanks to a local, well-known DJ.

In the shadows of the Pyramid, and the heart of the Pinch District in Memphis, you can find the home of WPLX; "The Country's Only All Blues Radio Station"

The station has only been in existence for a month and is run by controversial media figure Thaddeus Matthews.

Matthew's said launching the all blues radio station was a no brainier.

"This being the home of the blues it was just natural that WPLX would be the only station in the marked that had no competition and that is the reason I came up with an all blues format," said Thaddeus Matthews.

But he didn't just want to bring blues to the air waves seven days a week; he also wanted to bring back the feel of old school radio.

"What I brought back was personality radio. When you went back to the days of the request line the days of people interacting with the jocks on the air," said Matthews.

Being in Memphis, WPLX show cases local talent, such as Jay Black Foot, Preston Shannon and Sheba Pitts-Wright.

Along with main stream rhythm and blues, chitterlings blues, southern blues and old blues.

"The Blues is a genres that crosses racial lines. Everyone likes the blues. When you look at you blues events that we have on Beal Street and this city they are always packed because people love the blues," said Matthews.

Memphis is the blues, the Mississippi blues trail runs through the city, now a music style loved by so many is available every minute of every day.

"To all of them that thought that I couldn't do it. My haters were my motivators to get done what I am doing and I am going to beat everybody that's on the air bar none. I don't care who you are and how long you have been on the air. The Thaddy Bear is back," said Matthews.