![]() Luke Bryan, John Mayer, Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, Ed Sheeran, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, and more have been featured in interviews on the morning show. The Bobby Bones Show has become a regular interview stop for top country music stars and even artists/celebrities outside the genre of country. His co-hosts are Amy and Lunchbox, and features Producer Eddie, Raymundo, Morgan2, Mike D., Abby, and Scuba Steve. Bones now broadcasts from the WSIX-FM studios in Nashville on weekday mornings from 5:00 a.m. Bones took over the slot hosted by longtime DJ Gerry House, who retired in 2010. In 2012, Clear Channel moved Bones and his show from Austin with its Top 40 format to Nashville and a country music format while taking The Bobby Bones Show nationwide. At the height of his popularity, Bones was offered a job outside of radio but ultimately chose to remain with Clear Channel (now iHeart Media). Over ten years, the show built its audience into the top-rated morning show in Austin and was syndicated in a few regional markets. His executive producer at the time, Alayna Messer, was previously an intern on the show. Bones believed in Amy and put her on the air immediately. While in Austin, he met two of his future co-hosts, Lunchbox (in a bar) and Amy (in a Culver's). Austinīones was originally hired for the evening shift on KHFI-FM and was soon moved to mornings. He then worked for radio station (KLAL), which led to his hosting The Bobby Bones Show on KHFI-FM in Austin, Texas.Īccording to The Washington Post, Bones is different from typical radio DJs, as he doesn't have the "classic, booming radio DJ voice". In 2002, Bones was hired by Q100/KQAR in Little Rock, Arkansas. Bones' first full-time radio contract paid him $17,000. A manager there gave him the choice of going on the air as Bobby Z or Bobby Bones of which he chose the latter. While still in college, Bones went to work as a station hand at KLAZ in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but was put on the air within a few days of being hired. in Radio/Television from Henderson in 2002. Bones began his radio career at age 17 at the campus station of Henderson State University, KSWH-FM "The Pulse". He grew up poor, and often viewed radio as a way of escaping poverty. His mother died at age 49 after battling addiction problems in 2014. Bones began dreaming of a radio career around the age of 5. His biological father was with him until the age of five, but then left the family. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother. He has said his mother became pregnant with him at age 15, when his father was 17. discographyīones was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on April 2, 1980, and raised in the small community of Mountain Pine, Arkansas. Accidental trigger of Emergency Alert System. ![]()
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