Listening to Morris Code: ATL’s relentlessly optimistic radio host
The ultra-smooth, made-for-FM voice of Morris Baxter goes placidly amid the noise and haste, kicking off the morning jazz show at WCLK-FM with a full five-minute reading of the "Desiderata."
Baxter isn't just spinning records (or discs, or electrons, or whatever they spin on the radio these days) at 91.9 FM. He's spinning life. As in, life is good. Life is what you make it. Life is glorious.
And if you listen to what Baxter calls his Morris Code day in and day out, you might come to agree with him. Or not. For those who think it's all too hokey, the morning man says: "As far as the cynics go, it's really not for them — until they understand."
Read the full story on Morris Baxter — and hear a sample of his voice on the radio — at myajc.com.
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Rosalind Bentley is an award-winning feature writer focusing on culture, arts and sometimes food, as they are expressed and experienced in Atlanta. She is a two-time James Beard Award finalist and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
