Spring 2019 Fund Drive Goal: $800.00.
only $490 to go before Summer!
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:4.16 - And also Thanks to William in CT for his continued support!
4.16 - Thanks to Ruth Anne for her continued support!!
4.15 - Doing the show today turned out to be a technical nightmare ... we'll officially start this show this coming Saturday, the show we mentioned in the last post.
4.12 - I've been experiementing with a new show the past few weeks to see how it might work out and it seems to be a success.
Mondays and Saturdays Noon and Midnight EST I'll play you the most popular songs on our station according to you, the audience - chronicaled on the right side of this page in the new Music Blog. I'm also working on trying to get a friend to produce a weekly show but right now she's busy promoting her new EP. More details as they become available. Should be fun! 4.9 - Thanks to Ed from NC for today's donation - appreciated very much, of course!
4.2 - Thanks to Phyllis for her monthly donation!
3.29 - Grateful for all your encouragement. Thanks for sticking by me when I feel like giving up. I can't do this without you AND I just wouldn't do it at all without you. You are appreciated.
3.27 - Thanks so much to John T. for helping out this quarter and for sticking with us thru some of our hard times! And also thanks to Joan S. who's made her first donation to wreckingballradio.net today ... thank you both very much!! #GratefulEmoji
3.25 - Over there on the right side of the page you'll notice our new Music Blog where we share with you our most popular songs, rated by our listeners, of the past several days. We'll also feature these songs in a new show Mondays & Saturdays, Noon EST - a weekly rundown of the most popular songs of the week according to you, our listeners.
Personal health update: feeling fine especially now that antihistimine season is overwith but I still have a meetup with a new Kidney doctor in April. Will keep you posted. - jt 3.20 - And on the official first day of Spring we say thank you to Katherine for her donation!
3.16 - Thanks to Ruth Anne for her monthly donation!
3.9 - And thank you to Bill for his donation to wreckingballradio.net today, getting our Spring Fund Drive going! Thank you!
3.2 - Thanks to Phyllis B. for her monthly donation, kicking off our Spring 2019 fund drive!!
3.1 - Officially beginning our Spring Fund Drive today - thanks to you all for making Winter a success so we can continue the stream at least through til Summer this year. Collecting money now so we can make it thru til Autumn. Hangin' in there quarter by quarter.
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.
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New - Music Blog:Instead of making a new chart every so often, which is cumbersome - and because things change day to day, I'm starting this new section to let you know a few times a week, usually daily, which songs are most popular with you, our listeners.
Plus, listen in on Saturdays and Mondays for a rundown of your favorites you'll find in this section. Noon and Midnight Eastern. _____________ 4.23 Most Popular Newer Tracks
Wood Brothers - Wasting My Mind (Live) Son Volt - Devil May Care Most popular Classic Track Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts of Highway 20 4.22 - Most Popular Tracks, New and Recurrent
Alejandro Escovedo - Horizontal Lisa Redford - Anything But Easy Brent Cobb - Ain't a Road Too Long Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Coolin' Out ********** 4.20 - Most Popular Tracks, New and Recurrent
Son Volt - The Reason Aaron Lee Tasjan - Set You Free Neko Case - Halls of Sarah Brent Cobb - High in the Country Andy Frasco & The U.N. - Change of Pace Hudson - Woodstock Most Popular Classic Tracks: Emmylou Harris - I Don't Wanna Talk About It Now 4.16 - Most Popular Newer Tracks
Quaker City Night Hawks - Tired of You Leavin' Eric Bibb - Listen for the Spirit Most popular re-currents: Aaron Lee Tasjan - Refugee Blues John Prine - Knockin' On Your Screen Door Most Popular Classic Track: Neko Case - Deep Red Bells ************* 4.15 Most Popular New Tracks
Donna the Buffalo - Heaven and the Earth Most Popular re-currents: Tom Petty - Gainsville Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters - The Road The Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings Most Popular Classic Tracks: Emmylou Harris - I Don't Want to Talk About it Now Neil Young - Harvest Moon Neil Young w/Emmylou Harris - This Old Guitar ************ 4.14 Most Popular WreckingBallRadio.NET Tracks
Revivalists - Change Over the Rhine - Leavin' Days Jeff Tweedy - Let's Go Rain Donna the Buffalo - Heaven & The Earth Most Popular re-currents: Lisa Redford - Music and Mountains Leftover Salmon - Light Behind the Rain Hiss Golden Messenger - Rock Holy ********* 4.13 Most Popular Tracks
Revivalists - Change Dave Rawlings - Cumberland Gap Ruston Kelly - Mockingbird Aaron Lee Tasjan - Set You Free ********* 4.12 Most Popular Tracks
Kurt Vile - Timing Is Everything Dulcie Taylor - Long Gone ******** 4.11 - Most Popular Tracks
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Second Hand Man Rhiannon Giddens - I'm On My Way Most Popular recurrents Ray LaMontagne - As Black as Blood is Blue Craig Moreau - The Best of Me *********** 4.10 - Most Popular wreckingballradio.net Tracks
HoneyHouse - King of Love Abigail LaPell - Devil in the Deep Most popular re-currents: Secret Sisters - He's Fine Rayna Gellert - Bound for the Promised Land ********* 4.9 - Most Popular Tracks
Melissa Etheridge - Faded By Design Chatham County Line - I Think I'm In Love *********** 4.8 - Most Popular Tracks
Molly Tuttle - Sit Back and Watch it Roll Jontavious Willis - Resting On My Mind Honeyhouse - Catalyst Most Popular Older Track: JJ Grey & Mofro - A Night to Remember ************ 4.7 - Most Popular Tracks
Donna the Buffalo - Heaven and the Earth Ryan Bingham - Time for my Mind Ghost Light - Best Kept Secret Ben Harper - Love and Trust Jamestown Revival - This Too Shall Pass ********* 4.4 - Most Popular Tracks
Josh Ritter - I Still Love You Now and Then Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs, High Times Jeff Tweedy - I Know What It's Like Hayes Carll - What It Is ****** 4.3 - Most Popular Tracks (in no particular order):
Mavis Staples - We Go High Blackberry Smoke - No Way Back to Eden Mavis Staples - Ain't No Doubt About It Zac Brown Band - Somone That I Used to Know Honeyhouse - King of Love Steve Earle - Sunset Highway Nathaniel Rateliff - Shake Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Trust ************ 4.2 - Most Popular Tracks, Older and Newer
Wood Brothers - Sky High Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers - Country Blues Emmylou Harris - One Big Love Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Medicine ********** 4.1 - Most Popular WreckingBallRadio.NET tracks:
Ghost Light - Best Kept Secret Chatham County Line - I Think I'm in Love Most popular recurrent tracks: Tom Petty - Gainsville Lake Street Dive - Red Light Kisses *********** 3.31 - Most Popular Tracks
Lisa Redford - Anything But Easy Yola - Love All Night (Work All Day) Mumford and Sons - If I Say Justin Townes Earle - Ain't Got No Money Most Popular "Re-current" Secret Sisters - He's Fine ********* 3.30 Most Popular Tracks
Over the Rhine - Love & Revelation The Bottle Rockets - Doomsday Letter Most Popular "Re-current" Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn ******** 3.29 Most Popular Tracks
Wood Brothers - Sky High Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Mellow Out (Live) Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Coolin' Out Madelyne Peyroux - On a Sunday Afternoon ******* 3.28 Most Popular Tracks
Justin Townes Earle - Ain't Got No Money Honeyhouse - King of Love Shook Twins - What Have We Done Band of Heathens - Heaven Help Us All ********* 3.27 Most Popular Tracks of the Day:
Gary Clark Jr. - Guitar Man Josh Ritter - I Still Love You (Now and Then) ********* 3.26 Most Popular Newer Tracks:
Aaron Lee Tasjan - End of the Day Elvis Costello - Why Won't Heaven Help Me? John Hiatt - Cry to Me Most popular "Oldie": Emmylou Harris - One Big Love ********* |
."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...."
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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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