Winter Fund Drive Goal: $800.00.
Collected $570.00
Still needed before Spring: $230.00
Collected $570.00
Still needed before Spring: $230.00
Because we don't censor songs, and because this isn't AM/FM and we don't have to censor songs, just know that we play some songs which include Adult Language. Possibly #NSFW unless you have your earbuds/headphones on.
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"Always Eclectic, All the Time."
"A seductive, addictive, professional blend of 'Cosmic' Americana,
Contemporary Blues, Modern Bluegrass, Jam, Folk Rock, soulful alt.country & more."
Contemporary Blues, Modern Bluegrass, Jam, Folk Rock, soulful alt.country & more."
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New Blog Posts:1.18 - For now, anyway, we're keeping the stream DJ free. I can't seem to be in the mood or in the groove to do it every day like I'd like to. Maybe it's a winter thing. When I get the energy I'll make more podcasts and I'll deejay those, for those who wanna hear me for some reason. I've never understood my appeal but I've seen my ratings, and they're pretty good. So people (at least some) seem to like my presentation. In case you missed the announcements from earlier in the week, there's 2 new podcasts for you on the Mixcloud.
1.18 - Great letter we got today:
Hey Jayson I’m checking in with a short story of coincidence. I just got back home from a road trip to Massachusetts to see Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters in Northampton last night. As soon as I turned on my home computer, their final song from last night called “The Road” was playing on WreckingBallRadio.net. That was kinda cool, but I also want to share this: Last night after the show, as I was buying a CD from Amanda, I mentioned that I first heard the Honeycutters on Wrecking Ball Radio some years ago, and that is what inspired my interest in her band. She was appreciative and said she knew of your station. Just goes to show how a spark from you long ago set in motion a circumstance of music, love and appreciation that in a sense has come full circle. Thanks again for all you do! - Joe from Schenectady 1.16 - Thanks to Ruth Ann for her monthly donation! Thanks for being a long time supporter of wreckingballradio.net!
1.15 - And here's another new podcast. Lot of fun on this one. A little more rowdy than usual. Enjoy!
1.11 - We have a new Podcast up on the Mixcoud! (I know, finally!)
1.10 - Thanks EMP Manley in the NL for helping to keep us on the digital airwaves!
1.2 - Thanks to Phyllis B. for her monthly donation!
1.1 - Thanks to William in CT for the wonderful New Years Day donation! And for the letter. Both are always appreciated.
"...Just wanted to thank you for the fantastic music you introduce us to. You are all I listen to, except if I go off to you tube or someplace to further explore a new artist I heard on WBR. Speaking of which, thanks for bringing the Bottle Rockets to my attention, one of my current music obsessions, along with Neko Case, who I’m just taking notice of.
So wishing you stable health. Hope we can keep the stream going uninterrupted!" 1.1 - And officially our first donation of the year comes from Gael in Idaho, thanks for helping to keep us out of the red!
12.31 - A nice donation today for New Year's Eve from Phillip, thanks very much!
12.29 - Thank you Henry! For the Holiday donation today! Very much appreciated, of course. Thanks for listening!
12.20 - I'll be back after the holidays with new shows. Meanwhile behind the scenes I'm here trying to make sure the station is still lively and interesting. Thanks to everyone donating, getting our Winter Fund Drive off to a great start already! You make it all happen.
12.19 - The Best Part of Waking Up is Jayson in your Cup - or something like that. I've always wanted to be in a cup so my dreams have come true!
12.18 - Thanks to Julian and Thanks to Timothy in Denver, CO for today's donations on the PayPal. Happy Holidays!
I'm taking a break from the mic til the holidays are over but I'm still programming the music. I'm now on a "fixed income" due to my health issues. Not trying to make anyone feel sorry for me. I only point it out because this radio stream is officially now my only "job". I only ask for the bare necessities to keep the station going but I won't be able to make up for any deficits out of my own pocket, so donations to the station will be even more important from here on out. No guilt trips, though. I hate guilt trips from those other donation based stations. That's why I don't do 20 minute beg-a-thons on the air like they do. 12.16 - shout out to Joel for today's donation thru the Go Fund Me! Always appreciated, of course, and thanks for the encouragement. Also to Ruth Anne for her continued support with a monthly donation!
Speaking of encouragement we had such a great letter sent our way the other day from a long time listener of the station. You don't know how much those mean to me. 12.8 - Thanks to Ted for the donation this evening!
12.7 - Thinking, thinking. Of a 2nd stream. I know we tried a Jazz and Blues station but it didn't really work out. I'm thinking this time to produce & program an alternative / oldies type station... although I hate the word "oldies". It would be alt.music from the 70s, 80s & 90s ... with a little more in there. Some from now. from David Bowie's "Young Americans" to Morrissey's cover of The Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang", and, of course, many things in between. Thoughts? email me: wreckingballradio@gmail.com
12.2 - Thanks to Erika and Patricia for donations today, getting us closer to meeting our Winter goals and our Winter fund drive hasn't even officially started yet!
We've got some weird weather this week in NC, USA. 72 today and 22 later in the week. Oy. 11.23 - Happy Day After Thanksgiving. I hope you're all feeling ok and didn't eat too much. I'll be back on with new shows this coming week. We mentioned it before but we're trying to stick to the schedule of new shows Mon, Tue & Thu at Noon EST with replays at Midnight and on the other days. It won't always work out but that's what we're shooting for.
And thanks to SC Brock today for his donation today! Thanks also to Dano! That'd be kind of wild to make our Winter goals before Winter officially begins. Stranger things can happen, I'm sure. 11.18 - Thanks to Morgan in the Netherlands for sending in a donation today. 'Thanks for listening and for the encouragement by way of a donation.
11.15 - And thanks to Ed in Denver for the donation today!
11.9 - Thanks to Ted for getting us started a little early with our Winter Fund Drive! Perfect timing since it's going to be in the 20's this week, here in NC.
11.8 - If you donate thru our GoFundMe (top of this page) you'll see the name Wendy there. She is our "Tech Support" and a good friend. My best friend, in fact. So please don't worry that funds are re-routed to a 3rd party or something. She's part of the team and any money collected thru GoFundMe will go to the care and maintenance of WreckingBallRadio.NET.
11.8 - Thanks to Ted for re-discovering wreckingballradio.net and for the kind words along with the donation. Glad you're out there still enjoying the station!
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Top Featured Albums & Tracks (in no particular order) WreckingBallRadio.NET *** Featured Albums: Aaron Lee Tasjan - Karma For Cheap Annie Oakley - Words We Mean Mark Knopfler - Down the Road Wherever Donna the Buffalo - Dance in the Street Amy Helm - This Too Shall Light Mumford & Sons - Delta Marcus King Band - Carolina Confessions Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Years Blackberry Smoke - Find a Light Amanda Shires - To the Sunset John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything Van Morrison - The Prophet Speaks Neko Case - Hell-On The Record Company - All of This Life The Revivalists - Take Good Care *** Modern Adult Rock / Adult Album Alternative (AAA) Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Trust / Obvious Annie Oakley - Into the Light Jeff Tweedy - I Know What It's Like / Let's Go Rain Lumineers - Walls Grace Potter - I'd Rather Go Blind Dave Matthews Band - Again and Again / Come Tomorrow Paul McCartney - People Want Peace Elvis Costello - Why Won't Heaven Help Me Mark Knopfler - Good on You, Son Cowboy Junkies - The Things We Do for Each Other Revivalists - Other Side of Paradise / All My Friends Kurt Vile - Rollin' With the Flow Madeleine Peyroux - Down on Me / On a Sunday Afternoon *** Soul / R&B / Neo-Soul War and Treaty - All I Wanna Do Keb' Mo' & Taj Mahal - All Around the World Shemekia Copeland - I'm Not Like Anyone Else St. Paul & The Broken Bones - LivWithoutU / Conclave Chastity Brown - Mad Love Eric Bibb - Listen For the Spirit / Grateful Elle King - Chained / Shame Charles Bradley - I Feel a Change Our Native Daughters - Quasheba, Quasheba *** Americana / Contemporary Folk Rock Hayes Carll - None'ya Avett Brothers - Roses and Sacrifice / Trouble Letting Go Rhett Miller - Total Disaster / I Can't Change Rosanne Cash - The Only Thing Worth Fighting For Mumford and Sons - If I Say / Delta John Hiatt - Cry to Me / Over the Hill Ruston Kelly - Mockingbird / I'm Tryin' to Let Her Annie Oakley - Into the Light Madeleine Peyroux - On a Sunday Afternoon / Down on Me Hiss Golden Messenger - Rock Holy / Back to the River Again Mipso - Edges Run / Get Out While You Can Alejandro Escovedo - Something Blue Hot Buttered Rum - Sleeping Giants Amy Helm - Mandolin Rain / This Too Shall Light / River of Love Milk Carton Kids - Younger Years *** On the Rise / New Additions Tedeschi Trucks Band - Hard Case Todd Snider - Just Like Overnight Patty Griffin - River Matt Ellis - Isolationist Blues Shovels & Rope - The Wire The Cactus Blossoms - Please Don't Call Me Crazy Ryan Bingham - Wolves The Decemberists - Traveling On Michael Franti & Spearhead - Nobody Cries Alone Norah Jones - Wintertime Zac Brown Band - Someone That I Used to Know Jeff Tweedy - Let's Go Rain / I Know What It's Like Amelia White - Rhythm of the Rain Rivers - Mother Nature Jason Eady - Lost My Mind in Carolina Joy Williams - The Trouble with Wanting / Canary The Wild Feathers - Every Morning I Quit Drinkin' Bird Streets - Betting on the Sun Sister Sparrow - Gold *** Current Featured Indie Artists: Vanessa Peters, Steven Graves, Christa Wells, Lisa Redford, Craig Moreau, Birds of Chicago, Amelia White Wrecking Ball Radio
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."I got into radio when I was 19 out in Walla Walla, Washington. after some time at Whitman College's KWCW I landed a job at KTEL - a little news, sports and country music station. Before too long I became their music director. It was my dream job, really. Same station Family Guy & Batman's Adam West began his career, btw.
Moved to Florida in the mid 80's and spent some time as Music Director at Class 103 in Naples, back when they were 'THE' station to listen to. After that I hosted a popular weekly Sunday Jazz Brunch show on WAVV-101. I got out of radio for a while to pursue other interests and wound up back on the air at Eye-Q Radio in Miami where I began exclusively playing Americana and alt.country. This was back in 2000. Moved to North Carolina and found myself continuing the Americana/alt.country show at WCOM, a little community station here in Carrboro. The show got "syndicated" on a few other internet stations in the USA and UK - which was very cool. But a weekly 2 hour show just wasn't enough for me. Once I finally figured out how to put the pieces together for a full time internet-based radio station, and thanks to the generosity of friends who believed in this project (and my ability to pull it off and create something innovative, fun and interesting) - Wrecking Ball Radio was born in 2011. The station continues to survive ONLY on listener donations and, for that, we are eternally, extremely grateful." "This is my only real skill and it's becoming less and less marketable so I really do appreciate the support." And now after all these years with my dream of having a full time channel of my own, coming to and end - we transition from radio to podcasting. One reason is I'm older now and with that comes difficulties in maintaining a schedule people can count on. Plus there's a ton of word processing involved in running an on line stream. Way too much for me to handle anymore. And the expense is outrageous - with an annual threat of prices being raised. I've hit the peak of my fundraising abilities but it's never enough for the industry. Podcasting is actually more fun for me, too. So let's see how this goes. I know a lot of you loved the stream. Hey, me too! But all good things.... we outlasted a lot of other similar projects by a long shot. I'm kind of proud of that.
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"WreckingBallRadio.net is still the best stream I've discovered and you've rejuvenated my love for radio and buying music. Your doing a fantastic job so please keep the stream alive as long as you can."
- Bern S. from the UK "A terrific source for discovering new music! I've bought a ton of music because of you!"
Jamie T. "I had satellite but I got rid of it and now I only listen to Wrecking Ball Radio. Nothing compares." B. Tweedy "WreckingBallRadio.Net must continue. It is the go to sound track for my life. Your programming skills are spot on. Bringing joy to me every day of my life. Telling all my friends about your station."
Joel K. "[Wrecking Ball Radio] is a goldmine of new and old Americana nuggets curated by Jayson Tanner, who seems to have the knack of uncovering under the radar artists... He has a real ear for intelligent music, the kind that has something to say and which does not simply seek to replicate the past...."
Steve Swift, writing in 'Louder Than War'. "We play your station every day , and EVERY day, so many clients ask about the station because they LOVE the music that is played. We're sharing the good news! Thank you for playing great songs all the time."
- Dennis S. "Wow...seriously? Radio with really good music? Really, REALLY good music...song after song after song? Two hours ago I would have said it wasn't possible ... thank you Jayson for proving me wrong." - Barbara P. "... reminds me of listening to "underground" radio back in 1969..." - Ron I. "Incredible! ... I love ur song selections and could never find all these artists on my own. Thank you I can now lay in bed and listen to my hearts content." - Virgil J. "I like having a place I can escape to where I can be guaranteed awesome music." - Jessica D. "Wrecking Ball Radio harkens back to the quality and depth commercial radio once had the freedom and chutzpah to explore. Class, quality and excitement." - Jon M. Send Comments:
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