Satellite radio listeners will be happy to hear that the weekly radio show hosted by local boy Roger Alan Wade and his cousin Johnny Knoxville has been re-upped for another year on the Outlaw Country channel.

The show can be heard on Saturday nights at 8 with a replay Sundays at midnight and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. on Sirius channel 63 and XM Radio channel 12.

The hosts tell stories and jokes, Wade picks and sings a little, and they play country songs about the wilder side of life. The channel was created by "Little Steven" Van Zandt.

"We pretty much are allowed to do what we want," Wade said.

Wade is in Texas for the Poodie Locke Life Celebration performing with Billy Joe Shaver, Billy Bob Thornton, Paula Nelson, Joe Ely, Rodney Crowell and possibly Willie Nelson.

The event is a fundraiser for Poodie Locke, Willie Nelson's longtime stage manager, who died recently.

"It's gonna be a lot of fun," Wade said.

Locke was famous among musicians for often saying, "There are no bad days" and "Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem."

* This week's announcement that WTZO-FM 105.1 will be broadcasting UTC football and basketball games made some wonder if Jim Reynolds, longtime voice of the football and men's basketball Mocs, would be jumping ship.

WGOW program director Bill Lockhart said Tuesday that "JR" would be doing "pretty much what he's been doing here" every weekday morning for years at WGOW, in addition to calling games on WTZO. Lockhart said part of Reynolds' contract with the station allows him to do sports play by play "on other frequencies."

WTZO is a Brewer Media Group station and home to ESPN radio.

"He's cool with it, I'm cool with it, and we are lucky to have him," Lockhart said.

As good as Reynolds is calling a game, Lockhart said he thinks the announcer is even better on talk radio.

"He is one of the quickest, coolest, sharpest guys I've ever worked with," Lockhart said.

With the launch of WTZO, Brewer now has two new talk radio stations in the market. The other is WPLZ-FM 95.3, which focuses on news.

* I feel strangely compelled to share this:

Yoko Ono is releasing a new CD with an updated, international version of the Plastic Ono Band. Sean Lennon produced the 16-song album and oversaw the band, which is composed of Japanese "avant pop musicians" and "Manhattan improvisers," according to a news release.

Let me know how it sounds.

* If you haven't already done so, you should rush out and buy the latest Spinal Tap release "Back From the Dead." Come off the wallet and buy the deluxe edition.

The accompanying DVD has the trio commenting on such classics as "Big Bottom," "Celtic Blues" and "Sex Farm." The music CD features 19 songs recorded last year including songs from the original 1984 "(This is) Spinal Tap" and four new songs, including one done for global warming.

The CD case unfolds into a diarama with the guys performing on stage.

E-mail Barry Courter at bcourter@timesfreepress.com.