Photo: Johnny Full-Time with Ronnie Baker Brooks.

I've always had a fascination with music. I guess you could call it a love affair. I can remember being in elementary school and just sitting in my room with the radio on, listening to the local pop music station, singing along to Michael Jackson tunes.

As I got older, my musical tastes started to grow and evolve. I was listening to Classic Country music like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens with my dad. He was also really into Bob Seger and John Mellencamp, two artists I still love today, and in the case of Seger, my all time favorite.

My mom was into Contemporary Country, so it was Garth Brooks, George Strait, and the like. When I was tagging along with my uncles, we listened to KISS and Motley Crue. I was exposed to a lot.

I also had some aunts who were really into Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the first time I heard his music, it didn't register like it would a little later in life.

In high school I DJ'ed with a friend, so I was up on all of the latest Hip-Hop and R&B. I was also buying Heavy Metal CD's, but then I heard S.R.V. again, and it was like finding religion. I was drawn to his music from there, and began tracing the Roots backward.

As I got older, the other musical genres all began to fade away. I gave up Rap quickly, and Heavy Metal followed after that. It's really hard for me to listen to Country nowadays, and I find myself absorbed in the Blues. I still tune in the Classic Rock station, turn on Willie Nelson on my iPod, and throw on my Bob Seger vinyl from time to time; but Blues rules my life. It truly is my passion.

My other passions in life are radio, my wife, family, travel, and entertainment in all forms.

I thought I wanted to go to school to be an artist, but quickly found out I wasn't as passionate about it as I had led myself to believe. I talked to an adviser in Broadcasting at the university I had chosen, and I was hooked. Two degrees later, I was ready to get on the airwaves. That would take a little while.

I broke into radio with a board operating position about 2005, switched to TV production for a couple years, then landed my first full-time gig doing on-air radio in '07.

In 2008, I approached University of Evansville Station WUEV-FM's management about volunteering, and Full-Time Blues was born.

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Johnny Full-Time's Favorites

Artists: Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Susan Tedeschi, Jonny Lang, John Mayer

Bands: Watermelon Slim and the Workers, The Derek Trucks Band, The Band

Sports Teams: St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Blues, Oklahoma Sooners

Pastimes: Live Music, Vinyl Albums, Travel, Comedy, Bible Study