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The Tenderhooks kick off the new album “Distilled: 25 Years of Knoxville Rock.”
WUTK, 90.3 FM, is everything a college radio station should be. It supports the local music scene by playing music by local artists and helping to promote local shows. It gives students a chance to DJ, host their own shows and understand why radio under the right conditions can still be magical.
The fact that the station manages to do this without a penny of support from the University of Tennessee, aside from paying the light bill, makes it all the more remarkable.
To celebrate that station’s 25th anniversary (and raise some much-needed funds) the station will release “Redistilled: 25 Years of Knoxville Rock” on April 15. The idea of it is terrific: Seventeen local artists cover favorite songs by other local artists from Knox rock history.
Benny Smith, long-suffering program director (and just about everything else at WUTK), and Jeff Heiskell, formerly of the Judybats, hit on the idea for the CD at about the same time.
“I thought if one of Knoxville’s finest musicians has the same idea, too, it must be a good idea,” says Smith.
The typical route for fundraising CDs is to simply have the artists contribute a previously unreleased track. This would require artists to make fresh recordings and make hard choices on what to cover. Smith, Heiskell and musicians and studio aces Eric Nowinski, Don Coffey and Tim and Susan Lee met and plotted out the project.
“I thought it was something that artists would really put their hearts and souls into,” says Smith.
The disc proves that Smith’s prediction was correct. Tracks bounce out of the speakers with enthusiasm.
The very appropriate kick-off track is the Tenderhooks’ furious take on “104,” originally recorded by Balboa. Tenderhooks’ lead singer, Jake Winstrom, spits out the lyrics, which are an angry jab at commercial rock radio written by late local guitar legend Terry Hill, who was once a guitar teacher to Tenderhooks guitarist Ben Oyler.

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Monday, March 17, 2008 — “And the Winner Is…” Before it is determined which of the two final couples will win the life-changing grand prize, one of the husband and wife teams must first win one last challenge that will truly test how well they know each other. Later on, in a surprising and emotional twist that raises the stakes, all of the six competing newlywed couples reunite, on the Season Finale of “Here Come the Newlyweds,” SUNDAY, APRIL 6 (10:02-11:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Pat Bullard hosts.
The executive producers of “Here Come the Newlyweds” are Jay Blumenfield and Tony Marsh (”The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliott,” “Tuesday Night Book Club”). The series is produced by The Jay and Tony Show in association with Warner Horizon Television.
This program is broadcast with Spanish subtitles via secondary closed captioning. A TV parental guideline will be posted closer to airdate.

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