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Our quarterly goal for operating expenses is a mere $999.
It's up a little bit this time because we want to help out a few of the local/regional festivals by promoting the station in their flyers.
Thanks to you all for helping out this past quarter.
Thanks all for the donations and encouragement to keep the stream alive!
I'm sorry we don't have any Tote Bags. Just great music, any time you tune us in. Let's keep the music flowin', commercial free. We don't have ads or gov't grants so I do have to ask for your support, if you can help, please do - thru our Paypal on this page. Thanks!
It's up a little bit this time because we want to help out a few of the local/regional festivals by promoting the station in their flyers.
Thanks to you all for helping out this past quarter.
Thanks all for the donations and encouragement to keep the stream alive!
I'm sorry we don't have any Tote Bags. Just great music, any time you tune us in. Let's keep the music flowin', commercial free. We don't have ads or gov't grants so I do have to ask for your support, if you can help, please do - thru our Paypal on this page. Thanks!
New Blog Posts:8.17 - Listening to playbacks of my shows from earlier in the week, I'm really kind of discouraged with the quality of my voice. I was thinking I was sounding good this week but apparently not. Age takes it's toll.
Not a lot going on with new Americana releases today. I was just looking at new releases ... still waiting on the complete Amy Helm album but at the moment it's the only thing I'm really looking forward to. We have a few singles from Aaron Lee Tasjan already, even though that full album won't be out til the end of the month. His 3 singles are competing for airtime right now. Sarah Shook's got several tracks in our rotation so she's fallen off the singles chart - but we're still featuring multiple tracks from her album. 
8.16 - I think we have to just say that we'll try and do a show each day at noon, with replays - at least a few times a week. Also replays on the weekends at noon. But due to health issues which affect my voice, I can't do one every day, as much as I'd like to. Meanwhile, thanks to Ruth Ann for her monthly support! Not sure if we'll make our Summer Fund Drive so if we don't we can't do what we'd hoped, which is to promote in some flyers at regional festivals like Merlefest and Shakori Hills. I've got to pay the bills around here first!
8.9 - Sorry about the no-show today. Sometimes the "old man meds" I have to take make it impossible to form coherent sentences. Thanks though to William for his 75.00 donation today and for his encouragement to keep going with the station. Thanks Bill!
8.2 - Thanks Phyllis for your monthly 10.00 donation!
8.1 - Added more new music from Aaron Lee Tasjan, Amanda Shires, The Folk Soul Revival, Willie Nelson and Parker Millsap.
8.1 - Thanks to Bern for the 100.00 donation today. Only $680 to go to reach our Summer Fund Drive goals!
7.31 - Thanks to Ray for the 50.00 donation this morning - and especially for the encouragement. I think the Summer Heat's got me down, so yes, I can use all the encouragement I can get right about now!
7.30 Haven't switched up the music too much this week as we're still waiting on some important new releases. We did manage to add some new tracks from the upcoming album from The Devil Makes Three!
7.29 - Thanks to Mark in MA for his 10 dollar donation today - bringing us up to $160 for the season so far. Only $830 to go!
7.25 - Showtimes are now Noon and Midnight EST most weekdays unless life gets in the way. I don't want to be on four times a day. That's a little much.
7.22 - New Music added this weekend from Cowboy Junkies (more tracks from their new album), Karen Jonas, The Magic Numbers, The Wild Feathers, the duo of Clay Parker & Jodi James with an excellent Rawlings/Welch sound. From the new tribute to the poetry of Johnny Cash, a new track from the late Chris Cornell. And a duet featuring Rosanne Cash and Emmylou Harris covering Elton John & Bernie Taupin.
7.19 - The plumbing drama continues. I can't be doing a radio show with maintenance people trolling around the place. Very sorry to be absent from the mic again today. Enjoy the music with me. I'll be here listening along with you. It may be time to move, though. Maybe to a nice country home with a garage I can convert into a radio studio, like Mark Maron's WTF Podcasts. I'd need to crowdfund that one.
7.17 - Ah, the hazards of working at home. We're having a plumbing emergecy at our fantasy studios (my apt.) today so we'll be back up and running with a new show tomorrow, noon EST - assuming the plumbing emergency is taken care of by then. Enjoy the music!!
7.17 - Thanks to HP in Germany for the 20 dollar donation today - and for the encouraging words. I'm glad you like the music! Thank you! $150 down, $840 to go in our Summer Fund Drive!
7.16 - Thanks to Ruth Ann for her donation today, bringing us closer to our goal of 999 this Summer. $130 for now, $860 to go! We can do this! Overhead is way low. Just hoping for a little extra this summer so we can put some ads in flyers circulated at some of the regional Americana-themed festivals, like Shakori Hills Fall Fest and Merlefest.
Also of note: we've added tracks today from Indie artist Brian Dolzani and his new folky country-rock album "Horse". 
7.12 - We got a couple of new albums in today that couldn't be more different if they tried - but we're playing them both. We're all over the map, in a good way.
1) The sweet newgrass sounds of Hot Buttered Rum with their new album. And 2) Jamie Lynn Vessels with a new bluesy rock album - or is it a new rockin' blues album?
7.10 - No new show today, sorry. Heat wave here in NC. Or humidity wave. It's punishingly hot, either way. Enjoy the music today.
7.9 - New tracks added today from Jim James, Cowboy Junkies and Shemekia Copeland.
7.6 - We have a tidy little one hour podcast sampler up on the Mixcloud for you. I've been doing more shows on the stream so podcasting is taking a back seat at the moment. There'll be some replays of my weekday show over the weekend. Sat & Sun Noon EST.
7.4 - Thanks to Robin, listening to wreckingballradio.net in the U.K. today for the 15.00 donation, that's very encouraging, thank you! 125.00 for now and 865.00 to go as our Summer Fund Drive continues.
7.3 - Thanks to Phyllis for her monthly 10 dollar donation! 110 for now, 890 to go. As we mentioned it's a little higher for this Summer because I want to have some extra promotional money. Hoping to help sponsor at least one of the upcoming regional Americana/Roots festivals. Like Shakori Hills, which is just outside of town here in Chapel Hill, NC. Maybe Merlefest, too.
New additions to the stream today: another track from Mavis Staples' new album. You're likely hearing a new track from Amy Helm, as well. Plus another track from Neko Case's latest. The first run of my almost daily 3 hour show is Weekdays Noon EST. It's repeated a few times. Usually around 6pm, Midnight and again the next morning around 9am. All time Eastern, of course. 7.1 - Thanks Michael for your donation today as we get a little bit more into our Summer Fund Drive. 100 down, only 900 to go!
6.30 - This week we've added new music: St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Aaron Lee Tasjan and The Punch Brothers. Also Gary Dean Smith with a new bluesy number.
But don't worry, we're never afraid of "girl cooties"! (Some country & western stations don't seem to play nearly enough female vocals these days. I don't know what they're thinking but that's the radio world we're in right now. But you can listen to us and hear lots of female artists. If nothing else, go back and forth between us and your favorite "country hit" radio station.) 
6.30 - For all of you around the world celebrating America's Independence: Have a Happy Extended 4th of July Week & Weekend. Due to the Holiday I may not be doing as many shows this week on the stream. But, as they say, how can you miss me if I don't go away?!
6.29 - Thanks for the encouraging emails this week commenting about me being back on the mic. I've missed deejaying on the stream, too. I don't mean to harp on it but I had a mild stroke last year (too much fighting on-line about election results, I think!) and it took forever for me to recover my radio voice. I tried but I was sounding like I must have been 192 years old, like the Crypt Keeper was deejaying. So I gave it a rest for a while and worked really hard on getting better. I actually think I might sound better than I did before. Not bragging but I'm happy with how things finally turned out. And you guys seem to be, too, as our listenership has improved lately. There was a drop-off when I wasn't deejaying. Don't let anyone tell you live human radio deejays aren't important anymore.
6.26 - Thank you to JF in the UK for the donation this morning! Bringing us up to 90 in our Summer Fund Drive! Thanks for supporting what we do here at WreckingBallRadio.NET!
6.20 - So, I have a new show running weekdays at noon EST on wreckingballradio.net. There are replays but as of now they're at no fixed time. I'm looking for ideas. What do you think? Should my show replay 4 x a day? 3 x? Twice? Or just once with repeats on the weekend? Suggestions are welcome but you'd have to replay on the station's Facebook wall: facebook.com/wreckingballradio - but yes, I do want to know your thoughts. Thanks!
6.19 Thanks to Bruce & Karen for their donation today!! Making some early progress on our Summer Fund Drive! Excellent, thank you! - jayson
6.19 - Happy Birthday to ... The Album!
6.16 ...and thanks to Ruth for starting off our Summer '18 Fund Drive. That's 5 down and 994 to go! Happy weekend to you.
6.15 - I'm thinking to get back to deejaying on the stream. For some reason we have more listeners when I do it. I know, I know. I don't get my own appeal, either!
6.13 - ...and thanks to Bruce putting us over the top! We have officially met our Spring Fund Drive goals, Thanks Bruce! And your $175 was the biggest donation so I'll be sending you that CD pack we promised ASAP.
Thanks all for participating this quarter. It really helps to know that the station is still meaningful to you after all these years. Hopefully with the changes in Net Neutrality protections we won't notice any slow down of the stream. |
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Staff Picks:
A completely subjective list of favorite tracks we're playing right now on wreckingballradio.net 8.15.18
Updated periodically, because things don't have to change every 7 days. 1. Dave Matthews Band - Come Tomorrow
2. Amy Helm - This Too Shall Light 3. Hot Buttered Rum - Sleeping Giants 4. M. Ward - Kind of Human 5. Rosanne Cash & Emmylou Harris - This Train Don't Stop 6. Dawes - Crack the Case 7. Aaron Lee Tasjan - If Not Now When 8. Old Crow Medicine Show - Whirlwind 9. Cowboy Junkies - The Things We Do to Each Other 10. Neko Case - Last Lion of Albian 11. Leftover Salmon - Places 12. Ben Glover - Catbird Seat 12. Brent Cobb - High in the Country 13. Willie Nelson - Me and You 14. Luke Winslow King - Blue Mesa 15. John Prine - Lonesome Friends of Science 15. Trampled by Turtles - The Middle 16. Motel Mirrors - Blue on Blue 17. Blackberry Smoke - Medicate My Mind 18. Carolina Story - Lay Your Head Down 19. Stray Birds - Nothing to Say About it Now 20. Amos Lee - No More Darkness, No More Light 
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999 a quarter seems to just cover the bases. It's a little higher now because some of the licensing companies have raised their fees so our artists can get a raise. Plus we'd like to help out some regional Americana festivals by promoting in their flyers.
PayPal: wreckingballradio@gmail.com Interest on paypal adds up quickly, too. Webhosting costs money. Music itself costs money. Yes I do get some promo stuff but most of what you hear is music I've bought for the station. And sometimes we have to replace a microphone or a laptop or something basic like that. There's Internet fees & more. We don't have a huge overhead because there's no fancy studio or tower to worry about. Seriously, I do this from the living room. But since this is my only "job", I do have to put on my fundraiser hat now and then. If I could I'd pay for it all myself, I would. Maybe if they ever get that Basic Income thing going. I haven't won any lotteries lately so I do rely on the kindness of strangers. 
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We don't have advertising but as an incentive to donate, if you have a small business to promote, a coffee shop, a new album, an ebook or book or movie or comic book or anything (within reason, of course, example: no porn, no guns, nothing racist or sexist), in exchange for any donation $50 or more we'll gladly help you promote it here on this page. Or.... Hire Me!
Another way to help out with WreckingBallRadio.NET, if you like my voice (and some people do, believe it or not!), I'm available to create a radio ad for you which you can place on various radio stations in your market. I specialize in the "soft sell" approach. Just write me some copy and I'll send you an mp3 or two or three in a timely manner, which can be used when you buy time on other outlets running commercials. I'm also available to program or consult other radio stations, on line or wherever, in the wreckingballradio.net style. Moving is not an option but you don't need me hanging around your break room anyway, when I can do it long distance just fine. Questions or suggestions: wreckingballradio@gmail.com
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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." 
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- Bern S. from the UK "A terrific source for discovering new music! I've bought a ton of music because of you!"
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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...."
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- 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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