Biography

Mr. Wonderful's Words of Wisdom
1-They call it too good to be true for a reason
2-Always ask “when did this start to sound like a good idea?”
3-Free is always better
4-Never fall out of a wheelchair into the middle of a dog fight
5-Don’t drink the kool aid
6-The brain cells don’t grow back
7-Find what you are good at and do it
8-Do the best you can with what you have to work with
9-Act like you have good sense even if you don't
10-Always try to be smarter than you look, it's better than looking smarter than you are
11-You can dress up a pig and call it the Queen of Englad but in the end all you have is a dressed up pig
12-If you're gonna grow old, make sure you're rich
13-You can't make up the truth
14-Sometimes you don't know what you think you know
20-The easy part to anything is the talking about doing it
22-If you shoot yourself in the foot don't be surprised if you walk with a limp

Americana 441-Top 25 2011
1-Memory That Bad-The Malpass Brothers
2-Little Bird-Kasey Chambers
3-Rock ‘n’ Rock Party(Honoring Les Paul)-Jeff Beck
4-Big State, Long Road-The Cornell Hurd Band
5-Back When-The Carper Family
6-Your Money & My Good Looks-
Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent
7-Straight Up Country-Joel Warren
8-Texas Songbook-Gary Nicholson
9-Avalon-J.D. Malone & the Experts
10-The Niall Toner Band-The Niall Toner Band
11-Heroes Last Forever: The Sun Sessions-
Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours
12-Starlight Hotel-Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers
13-V-Kenny Vaughn
14-The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams-
Various Artists
15-All God’s Children Gotta Dance-
The Skiffle Minstrels
16-Have You Ever Heard of Milton Brown?-
The Great Recession Orchestra
17-Sowing Seeds-Pure Grain
18-American Legacies-
Del McCoury Band & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
19-Let It Grow-Big Daddy Love
20-Reason and Rhyme-Jim Lauderdale
21-Set Two-Gal Holiday and thye Honky Tonk Revue
22-Heirloom Music-
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & the Wronglers
23-Who Was That Man?-Tokyo Rosenthal
24-Working in Tennessee-Merle Haggard
25-A Deep Oasis-Lori Singer & Bradley Kopp

With the dawn of 2012 Americana 441 begins its seventeenth year in production and its sixth in syndication. The program was created in 1995 by host and producer Ignatius Belvedere Wonderful as a vehicle for showcasing and promoting the brand-new format, Americana, that WJJC-AM radio in northeast Georgia was adopting. The station’s new owners wanted a fresh, forward-thinking format firmly based in roots music--bluegrass, honky-tonk, folk, true “classic” country, acoustic blues, and the like--that the station had been playing for years. Artists like Alison Krauss, Jim Lauderdale, Asleep at the Wheel, Shelby Lynne, and others received airplay alongside emerging talents like Junior Brown, Dale Watson, the Cornell Hurd Band, and Iris Dement. Classic country acts from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s were intermixed with long-established folk, rock, and blues artists like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Neil Young, whose more obscure music was long neglected or had rarely been aired on radio. George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams joined Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, and Ralph Stanley, and were heard over the airwaves in a format previously reserved for public radio or independent college stations. In addition to secular music, sounds of faith new and old, ranging from bluegrass, mountain, and country gospel to southern gospel and the traditions of the black church were now available as an alternative to the prepackaged gospel of mainstream radio.
Americana 441 today features the latest in Americana along with classic and obscure country, plus the occasional track that defies categorization. It’s not just the same hundred “hit”songs reconstituted over a six-hour rotation. The show is hosted and produced by I. B.Wonderful and recorded almost live at his semi-palatial Gladeland estate in the pecan groves of Point Peter, Georgia. Americana 441 is available in a 60 minute format.


You Might Be Your Good Friend and Mine Rick Bennett If:

1-You think Mel Street is where the post office is located.

2-You finished second to Sawyer Brown on Star Search.

3-In a previous life your where an overdue library book.

4-As a practicing thespian you starred in such classic plays as "a streetcar named bob" and "dog on a cold cement porch"

5-Wanted to be a fireman when he grew up until he found out they PUT OUT fires.

6-After being seen one day swerving to miss a deer a listener stated that Rick must really know how to handle a car and was told that yes Rick could do more things with a car than a monkey could do with a coconut.

7-Much like Al Gore invented the internet Rick invented the dot in dot com.

8-You are a former anger management counselor for Coach Bobby Knight.

9-He thinks libido is a type of italian pasta.

10-The last time his girlfriend asked him “Wanna neck?”she handed him a piece of chicken.

11-If he’s the man of 1000 faces, why does he use the one he does?

12-He’s always had bad luck with his marriages: his first wife left him and his second wife didn’t.

13-He lives by the motto, “Things aren’t always as bad as they seem--sometimes they’re worse.”

14-Learned that marriage is a relationship between two people, one who’s always right and one who’s a husband.
15-He’s so laid-back that if he were any lazier he’d slip into a coma.

16-He believes you should always borrow money from pessimists: they don’t expect you to pay them back.

17-He thinks that Dom Perignon is a character on the Sopranos.

18-His first wife described him as being like a slinky: there’s no apparent use for him but it’s fun to watch him tumble down the stairs.
19-Thinks that a thong is something a person with a thpeech impediment things.

20-Thinks that fast food is hitting a deer at 65 miles per hour.

21-Thinks that politicians and diapers are a lot alike, in that they both need to be changed on a regular basis and for much the same reason.

22-Truly believes that hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?.

23-Thinks that Eartha Kitt is a set of garden tools.

24-Is truly fascinated by work--he can watch someone else do it for hours and hours.

25-Thinks that you should always “Love Thy Neighbor,” just don’t get caught.

26-Was asked one day why he didn’t take a class in artificial respiration and replied he was too old to have kids.

27-Believes you should learn from other people’s mistakes; you’ll never live long enough to make em all by yourself.

28-Is living proof that nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

29-Gets all the exercise he needs just pushing his luck.

30-Is so slow he once came in third in a race with a pregnant woman.

31-Chewed his fingernails so much his stomach needed a manicure.

32-He was so happy today I asked him why, and he said he’d just finished a jigsaw puzzle he had been working on for 10-11 months. I said, “10-11 months--that seems like a long time.” He said, “Not really. On the box it said 4-6 years.”

33-He recently joined a health club and they told him when he came back to work out to wear loose clothing. He said if he had any loose clothing he wouldn’t need to join the health club.

34-He thinks the North Pole is the pole farthest from the door at his favorite strip club.

35-Since he’s been in so many plays with the local theater group, he’s known as the man of 1000 faces, which is 998 more than his ex-wife gives him credit for.

36-When asked the one thing his mother taught him that he remembers today, he said, “Time travel.” I said, “What could your mother possibly teach you about time travel?” He said she always told him if he didn’t act right she would knock him into the middle of next week.

37-He would rather have a gun that a woman, because you can buy a silencer for a gun.

38-So sensitive to pain that he cries when he brushes his teeth.

39-Described by one of his ex-wives as “a person who set low personal standards and then consistently failed to achieve them.”

40-He’s not 50 something, he’s 49.95 plus shipping and handling

41-Not a big gambler, in world war two he took germany and gave the points

42-One of his ex-wives during an argument told him once his IQ got to 60 he should sell

43-His second wife had no respect for his intelligence, she once said that if he was any dumber he’d have to be watered once a week

44-He was once described as being slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter

45-A man who on the keyboard of life always keeps one hand on the escape key

46-He once took an IQ test and it came back negative

47-A man who lives by the motto that hard work pays off in the future but laziness pays off now

48-When he was married he thought loading the dishwasher meant getting his wife drunk

49-A teacher once told him that she didn’t know what rick’s biggest problem was, either ignorance or apathy, he replied he didn’t know and he didn’t care

50-When asked what he did to keep in shape he said he did 3 things: jump, fly & dodge. Jump to conclusions, fly off the handle and dodge responsibility.

51-The last time they put candles on his birthday cake, a family of campers showed up with a bag of marshmallows.

52-He was a late bloomer in school, he once took home a report card that had 4 F’s and 1 D. His father told him that his problem was he was spending too much time on one subject

53-He took his first wife with him everywhere he went because she was too ugly to kiss goodbye

54-A man who has seen it all, done it all and can’t remember most of it

55-Lives by the motto: “Money doesn’t buy happiness but it makes misery a whole lot easier to deal with

56-Just signed a record deal he gets 12 for 99 cents and only has to buy 2 in the next 3 years

57-Described by his second wife as being a person with a room temperature IQ

58-He once got lost in thought and discovered he was in unfamiliar territory

59-He thinks a subdivision is part of a math problem

60-One lesson he learned in life if that you never take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night

61-He’s learned if you loan a person $20 and you never see that person again, it was worth it

62-His father taught him that before you criticize a person you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them you’re a mile away and you have their shoes

63-He missed his 6th grade graduation because he had jury duty

64-One thing he’s learned about women is that there’s 2 theories about arguing with women and neither one works

65-He thinks a quarter horse is the ride just inside the door at Walmart

66-Both of his ex-wives were named Miss Right but until he got married he didn’t know their first names were always.

67-He’s so old he remembers preparation A.

68-He’s so old he remembers when the Dead Sea was only sick

69-He lives by the motto: Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t

70-He’s a man who wishes the buck stopped here because he could use a couple of them

71-If you’re living proof that when all is said and done more is said than done

72-If you’re so unathletic you’d lose a slam dunk contest to Danny DeVito

73-He thinks a mandate is something a teenage girl looks forward to

74-When he was in college he was an honor student: Yes your Honor, No your Honor.................

75-If you’re so unathletic you couldn’t catch a rash at a poison ivy convention.

76-Thinks that being over the hill is better than being under it

77-Married his 2nd wife for better or worse. He couldn’t do any better and she couldn’t do any worse

78-He thinks experience is a wonderful thing, it helps you recognize a mistake when you make it again

79-He’s passionately against politcal jokes because he’s seen too many get elected

97-He doesn’t suffer from insanity he enjoys every minute of it

98-He’s gotten so old that when he goes out to eat they ask for the money up front

99-Every time he hears that dirty word “exercise” he washes his mouth out with chocolate

100-He’s gotten all the exercise he needs just getting over the hill

101-Suffers from Deja Moo, it means he’s got a feeling he’s heard this bull before

102-He really likes long walks, especially when they’re taken by someone who annoys him

103-He drives way too fast to ever worry about cholesteral.

104-Strong as an ox and nearly half as smart.