Free music from artists you've heard on The Sound!

Currently featured on The Sound is music from the new live release by JJ Grey & Mofro Brighter Days. You can download the title track here at the Public Radio East website by clicking here and looking at the Free Music from The Sound section. "The Love You Save (Mississippi)" by Lipbone Redding from his Unbroken CD is also available here at the Public Radio East website and you can download it here. Details on how to do download the JJ Grey and Lipbone Redding tracks can be found below. You can also download music by The Lovell Sisters there as well. Nora Jane Struthers is currently featured on The Sound. She's offering a free download of "Greenbriar County" from her self-titled debut CD especially for listeners to The Sound. Click here and enter pre in the promo code box to get a free download of that track. A current favorite on The Sound is Chris Isaak's tribute to the old Sun Records label Beyond the Sun. Get a free track from that CD by clicking here.  Sarah Jarosz' Follow Me Down was one of our favorite CDs during the 2011 year on The Sound. You can download a free track from that CD here. You've heard The Gourds on The Sound... get a free track from the Texas roots band here.  Emmylou Harris is offering a free download of a track from her latest CD Hard Bargain... you can find it here. You've been listening to music from The Brick Album by the Greencards on The Sound. Get a free track from that CD by clicking here. Recently featured on The Sound is a great world music track by Chris Velan and the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars. You can download that track Inez by clicking here. You've heard world music from Rupa and the April Fishes on The Sound... you can find a free download here. The Works Progress Administration featuring Nickel Creek's Sean Watkins and Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket are offering a free download from their debut CD which you can access here.  Suzi Ragsdale is the daughter of country music comedian Ray Stevens as well as a past favorite on The Sound... you can get a free track by her by clicking here. You've heard the Watson Twins on The Sound... both on their own and with Jenny Lewis. Get a free download by the Twins here. Josh Ritter is offering a free download of a track recorded prior to the start of a recent European tour. You can get it here. Chapel Hill's very own Southern Culture on the Skids is offering a free "Mystery Download..." find out about it by clicking here. You can get a free download from Darrell Scott's CD A Crooked Road by clicking here. Signature Sounds is offering a download of a sampler of that label's artists, including Crooked Still, Joy Kills Sorrow, Patty Larkin, Caroline Herring and Chris Smither. You can access the sampler by clicking here. Erin McKeown is a past favorite on The Sound. Get a free download by her by clicking here. Bluegrass favorites Cadillac Sky are offering a free track download from their new release Letters in the Deep. Click here for more information. You can download tracks by the Lovell Sisters from their CD Time to Grow, Lipbone Redding's The Love You Save from his Unbroken CD and Brighter Days by JJ Grey & Mofro right here at publicradioeast.org. Two ways to get at those tracks, all starting with clicking on the Heard on PRE tab just above what you're reading. Method #1... click on Free Music from The Sound. Click on the MP3 icon. You'll go to another page and then (again) click on the MP3 icon. The track will play back in your browser, whereupon you can click on File, then Save Page as, at which point save on your computer to the folder of your choice. And for those of you podcasting-savvy, go to the podcast page, go to the Free Music from The Sound page, and download to the application of your choice. Thank you for listening to The Sound.

The Sound

What is The Sound? Our ten-words-or-less description is "Five hours of Americana, roots rock and contemporary folk," but it's more than that... a host of styles, from acoustic blues to rockabilly to bluegrass to, well, whatever catches our fancy that day. It's artists you've known for decades like Bruce Cochburn, Shawn Colvin, Marshall Crenshaw and the Bodeans plus artists you'll hear for the first time who you'll listen to for decades to come, including the Greencards, Arlington Priest and Crooked Still.  AND its musicians homegrown here in North Carolina whose work stands up to all the performers just mentioned...  bluegrass from Clayton's the Wells Family, singer/songwriters from an area thick with them ... Asheville, including Christine Kane, Chris Rosser and David Lamotte, and blues from Chatham County's Dmitri Resnick ... just to name a few. So, again, what is The Sound? Here's another ten-words-or-less description - great music that needs a place to be heard.  George Olsen is your host for The Sound Monday thru Friday from 7-12 midnight on PRE Public Radio East... News & Ideas... at 88.5, 90.3, 91.5 and 88.1.

The Best of The Sound 2012

The Top 40 CDs on The Sound for 2012 (thru February 3, 2012) 1)We Are The Tide – Blind Pilot (Expunged) 2)The Ones I Love – Colin Lake 3)Peace Meal – Carolyn Wonderland (Bixmeaux) 4)Whitehorse (Six Shooter) 5)Ashes & Fire – Ryan Adams (Capitol) 6)Where Ocean Meets Land – Connor Garvey (Mishara) 7)Two Much Love - Moody Bluegrass (Bunny Rae) 8)The Dreamer – Etta James (Verve Forecast) 9)Heart of a Dog – Kasey Anderson and the Honkies (Red River) 10)Ragtop Angel – Adam Ezra Group (Royal Avenue) 11)Live from the Left Coast – David Jacobs-Strain 12)Dark Country – James Justin & Co. 13)A Hundred White Lies – Shane Dwight (RTist) 14)Voyageur – Kathleen Edwards (Zoe) 15)Rocket – Danny Barnes (ATO) 16)Reverie – Joe Henry (Anti) 17)Bad Man’s Blood – Ray Bonneville (Red House) 18)Mercury – Pieta Brown (Red House) 19)Rock ‘n’ Roll With It – Billy Burnette (Rock ‘n’ Roll With It Records) 20)West Coast Drifter – Eric Lindell (M.C.) 21)Still Here - Martinez & Guthrie (Nez) 22)Light in the Sky – Red Molly 23)Let It Burn - Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn) 24)Beauty Queen Sister – Indigo Girls (Vanguard) 25)On Mardi Gras Day/Blue City – Jorge Calderon (Inside) 26)Bluesville Sessions - Mulebone (Red Tug) 27)Long Live the King – The Decemberists (Capitol) 28)Friends of Fall – Crooked Still (Signature) 29)Bad as Me - Tom Waits (Anti) 30)Through a Crooked Sun – Rich Robinson (Thirty Tigers) 31)The Shovel vs. the Howling Bones - Lincoln Durham (RP) 32)Monsters - Onward, Soldiers (Winoca) 33)Lonesome and Blue - Pat Roberts and the Heymakers (Electric Lotus) 34)Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) 35)Three - The Refugees (Wabuho) 36)Shake Your Hips - Joan Osborne (Saguaro Road) 37)Roots – Johnny Winter (MegaForce) 38)Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down – Ry Cooder (Nonesuch) 39)Fortunes Lost, Fortunes Told – Jonell Mosser (City Hall) 40)Rose of Jericho – Brigitte DeMeyer

What keeps The Sound on the air?

The one word answer is "you." If you've been listening to The Sound for any length of time, you may have noticed the lack of commercials. That's what keeps the typical radio station running... they sell advertisers air time, then you pay for your usage of that station by, in essence, donating your time to listen to those commercials, and then (they hope) rushing out and buying that product... which has the cost of the advertising tucked into the price. We don't have that option. We're licensed as a non-commercial station, meaning if we air commercials, we're in violation of our FCC license, which isn't a good thing. So how do we pay for the 1001 incidentals that are involved in getting The Sound into your home, office or car? We're back to the one word answer... "you." The Federal Communications Commission won't let us sell commercial time BUT they will allow us to ask for donations from those folks with the good taste to listen to this station. The majority of the funds we use to present The Sound are listener dollars. Without those listener dollars, no Sound... literally. We believe what you hear on Public Radio East on its own is enough to pledge your financial support... but a little incentive never hurt, so make a $40-or-more pledge and we'll send you your choice of CDs. There's a full list of CDs available down below to choose from many of the artists you hear on The Sound including Susan Tedeschi, John Hiatt, John Mellencamp, Ellis Paul and Louden Wainwright III. When you go to our pledge form by clicking here, just type in the comments box the name of the CD you'd like and we'll get it out to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your pledge. You're making The Sound possible. George Olsen Host/producer "The Sound" The following CDs are available for your $40-or-more pledge... Anytime Anyplace but Only You - Russell Johnson Mississippi Mile - John Oates North and South - Amelia's Mechanics Love Potions and Snake Oil - D.B. Rielly Jump Little Children: Old Songs for Young Folks - Lightnin' Wells Ghost Train...The Studio B Sessions - Marty Stuart Man from Another Time - Seasick Steve Letters in the Deep - Cadillac Sky Love & Circumstance - Carrie Rodriguez The Meantime - Randall Bramblett Pizza Box - Danny Barnes The Pursuit - Jamie Cullum The Day After Everything Changed - Ellis Paul The Stars are Out - Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles The Wreckage - Will Hoge Works Progress Administration - WPA Everything You Love will be Taken Away - Slaid Cleaves Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm Fascination - The Greencards Ready for the Flood - Mark Olson and Gary Louris Oktibbeha County - WSNB Back to the River - Susan Tedeschi Recovery - Louden Wainwright III Same Old Man - John Hiatt Alligator Purse - Beausoleil Life Death Love & Freedom - John Mellencamp Bucket - Mando Saenz Lay It Down - Al Green Nine Lucid Dreams - Two Loons for Tea On the Way - Abra Moore Secret Heart - Lauren Adams Vagabonds - Gary Louris Live from Austin, TX - Tift Merritt (DVD) Live from Bearsville Theatre - Dar Williams (DVD)   Love The Sound?   Get The Tee Shirt!                                             For information about The Sound Tee Shirt click here.