The Sound Contest Page

Congratulations to Sydney Atkinson of Raleigh, our final winner in our CD giveaways this week. Sydney will receive a copy of Balm in Gilead by Rickie Lee Jones. We'll do this again soon. If you'd like to go ahead and put your name in the hat for our next giveaway, here's everything you need to do ...  click here and type in your name & mailing address... and that's it. If that click here button isn't working, just e-mail your name & mailing address to golsen@publicradioeast.org and put The Sound CD Contest in the Subject line. If you've entered previous contests over the last few months and haven't yet won, you're already eligible... we'll hold your name until you do win or we run out of CDs, whichever comes first. If you've won something from Public Radio East in the last 30 days, hold off for a little while and give the other guy a chance.  Thanks for listening. While you're here, check out some other fun stuff. You can hear from some of the North Carolina artists you enjoy on The Sound by visiting the Heard on PRE section, then come right back here and look over our list of The Sound's top 40 discs so far this year ... and if you'd like some new music now, don't want to wait on the drawing Gods AND you want to help keep The Sound on the air, check out the CDs we're offering as our way of saying thanks for becoming a Public Radio East member. Thanks for listening. George Olsen Host/Producer "The Sound" golsen@publicradioeast.org

What keeps The Sound on the air?

The one word answer is "you." If you'e 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. Among the choices...One Foot in the Ether by the Band of Heathens, The Day After Everything Changed by Ellis Paul, or The Pursuit by Jamie Cullum...or check out the full list of possibilities in the next section just below. 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 Best of The Sound (so far...)

The Top 40 CDs on The Sound for 2010 (thru March 5, 2010) 1)Live in Louisville - Carrie Rodriguez 2)Little Moon - Grant-Lee Phillips (YepRoc) 3)God Don't Never Change - Ashley Cleveland (E1) 4)Blues for You - Jeff Golub (E1) 5)Heaven & Earth - Blue Mother Tupelo (Diggin’) 6)North Hills - Dawes (ATO) 7)American Horizon - Los Cenzontles (Cenzontles) 8)Serpentine - Gillian Grassie (Harp Power) 9)Cheap Seats - The Trapps 10)Yatra (Nomadic Soul) - Kailash Kher & Kailasa (Cumbancha) 11)Battle Studies - John Mayer (Columbia) 12)So Dark You See - John Gorka (Red House) 13)Live in Europe - James McMurtry (Lightning Rod) 14)One Fast Move or I'm Gone - Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard (Atlantic) 15)Pizza Box - Danny Barnes (ATO) 16)Good Evening New York City - Paul McCartney (Hear) 17)Songs from Lonely Avenue - Brian Setzer (Surfdog) 18)Welcome Home - Shelley King (Lemonade) 19)Nowhere Nights - Kasey Anderson (Red River) 20)Orchid - K.C. Clifford (Skipper) 21)Crows - Allison Moorer (Ryko) 22)One Foot in the Ether - Band of Heathens (BOH) 23)Balm in Gilead - Rickie Lee Jones (Fantasy) 24)Animal Boy - Matt the Electrician 25)Golden Apples of the Sun - Caroline Herring (Signature) 26)Sunny Side Up - Paolo Nutini (Atlantic) 27)What to Say - Daphne Willis (Vanguard) 28)Darkness Sure Becomes this City - Joy Kills Sorrow (Signature) 29)Jill Andrews (Liam) 30)Salt of the Earth - Harlem Parlour Music Club (HPR) 31)The Day After Everything Changed - Ellis Paul (Black Wolf) 32)The Fall - Norah Jones (Blue Note) 33)Things About Comin' My Way (Black Hen) 34)Downtown Church - Patty Griffin (Credential) 35)Sugar Sweet - Grandpa Elliott (Concord) 36)The Things We Left Behind - Blue Rodeo (TeleSoul) 37)Flood - Moreland & Arbuckle (Telarc) 38)Had Enough - Tom Gillam (Smith) 39)Joy - Phish (Jemp) 40)Este Mundo - Rupa and the April Fishes (Cumbancha)

Because Great Music Needs a Place to Be Heard

Love The Sound?   Get The Tee Shirt!                                             For information about The Sound Tee Shirt click here.  ...or if you'd like to own some of the music you've enjoyed on The Sound make a $40-or-more pledge and any of the CDs listed below can be sent to you as our way of saying thanks for becoming a Public Radio East member. Just type the name of the CD (or DVD) you'd like in the Comments box on the pledge form you can access by clicking the Pledge Now button above. 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 One Foot in the Ether - Band of Heathens 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 So I Begin - Rachel Van Slyke 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)