Michael Kuelker

Author

Michael Kuelker is a teacher, writer, and reggae radio DJ in St. Louis, Missouri. His new book is The Ozark Mountain Daredevils on Record: A Narrative Discography, a work based on more than 50 hours of oral history with band members and insiders about the music across the Daredevils' 50-years-and-running career.

Kuelker edited and published Book of Memory: A Rastafari Testimony (2005), the memoir of Jamaican Rastafari elder Prince Elijah Williams. His immersion in reggae and Jamaican culture have led him to co-host "Positive Vibrations" on KDHX 88.1 FM, a 43,000 watt independent radio station in St. Louis, from 1997 to present.

Kuelker is Professor (Emeritus) of English at St. Charles Community College, where for the last 22 years he has organized a four-day annual educational forum called SCC Democracy Days.

The book launch for The Ozark Mountain Daredevils on Record took place on Sept. 8, 2022, at The Cellar nightclub in Springfield, Missouri, where the band formed in late 1971 and where they are still based. Kuelker was accompanied by John Dillon and Supe Granda, two founding (and present) members of the OMD, for the signing. The book is being sold at independent outlets in the Midwest and through OMDonRecord.com.