ROBERT SIEGEL, host: A single sound can capture everything you feel about a new place. At least that's true for the sound engineer who sent us this SoundClip.</s>Mr. KEVIN SEAMAN (Sound Engineer): My name is Kevin Seaman from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. A couple of years ago was the first time I got a chance to go cross-country. Along the way we came across this little town in Wyoming off Interstate 80. We pulled up to get gas and while we were filling up the tank, I heard this amazing whistling sound.</s>Mr. KEVIN SEAMAN (Sound Engineer): And it was so desolate and there were no cars anywhere and it was gray outside. And I couldn't resist but get my microphone and my tape recorder and start recording the sound of this gas station, which I felt sort of symbolized the isolation, the sort of Dust Bowl mentality. I don't know. It was just atmosphere in a moment.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Wyoming wind from listener Kevin Seaman. You can learn more about SoundClips at NPR.org.
Listener Kevin Seaman plays us his recording of a lonely Wyoming wind blowing at a gas pump when he took a cross-country trip. He says it captures the essence of the empty West.