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This week, since we have new episodes of our Wednesday Music Specialty Programs on The AIR, plus we have a bunch of STUFF TO DO this weekend, we’re smushing everything up into one post. Radio notes come first!

Wednesday afternoon, The AIR brings you new installments of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, and they are both fine gems of expertly-crafted internet radio.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast brings you a May, 1980 interview with Sir Paul McCartney, back in his pre-Sir days.  This week we dedicate our entire show to one of the most curious and unexpected LP releases of the Beatles solo canon.

The McCartney Interview is a spoken word album featuring an interview of Paul McCartney by Vic Garbarini, recorded for the magazine Musician in May 1980. Originally done to promote the release of McCartney II early in 1980, this interview, in just under an hour, covers Paul’s entire musical history, from his early days in Liverpool, to the heights of Beatlemania and his time with Wings. He even touches on the “clues” to his death, and the influence that Motown, Skiffle, Stax and even New Wave had on his music.

What was so bizarre about this release is that the interview was so well-received that McCartney’s record label at the time, CBS, decided to give it an official commercial release. In the US it came out on December 4, 1980, making it the last record released by any Beatle before the assassination of John Lennon, just days later.  It’s the last time Paul spoke about John publicly while John was still alive. The interview is a fascinating historical document.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon. A two-hour mini-marathon of classic episodes runs every Monday evening, starting at 11 PM.

At 3 PM (EDT) on Curtain Call, Mel Larch celebrates  this year’s Tony Award Winner for Best Musical a she continues her tradition of bringing you highlights of the award-winning show, from the cast album for Schmigadoon!

Schmigadoon! is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Cinco Paul. You probably already know that it’s an adaptation of the first season of the musical television Apple TV series of the same name co-created by Paul and Ken Daurio.
The musical includes songs both from the TV series, as well as original songs written by Paul for the stage.

The plot follows two New York City doctors, Melissa Gimble and Josh Skinner, struggling with their romantic relationship, who find themselves trapped in the titular magical town similar to the setting of a Golden Age musical, populated by colorful people who frequently break into song. With sly, affectionate nods to classic musicals, Schmigadoon! quickly became a favorite of “theatre kids” of all ages, and a transition to the stage was inevitable.

The musical premiered at the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, and opened on Broadway in April 2026.

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A two-hour mini-marathon of classic episodes can be heard Monday evening starting at 9 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Meanwhile, after you listen to these shows, take note that STUFF TO DO is PopCult‘s weekly guide to just a few of the great events happening in Charleston, Huntington and a few other points here in West Virginia, and sometimes a little beyond our borders, in the coming days.

One of our featured events for this weekend is the second HurriCon, just a little drive West on I-64 from Charleston. You can read about it HERE, and gawk at the graphics right here…

Our other featured event is CultureFest, a longer drive South down I-77 from Charleston, in Princeton.  Read about it HERE…

Each week I try to tell you about a few cool events all around the state that you might not know about.  If you have a show that you’d like to plug in the future you can still contact me via Social Media at Facebook, BlueSky, Spoutible, Instagram or Twitter.  I dont charge for this, so you might as well send me something if you have an event to promote.

I do ask that you send a graphic that includes the date, time and location, of the event, as well as the cost to attend.  I can’t promise that I’ll run it here,  but chances are I will unless it’s something completely offensive or an event happening in South Carolina. If it looks original and charmingly weird, you have a better chance of seeing it here.

Keep in mind that I’ll need this several days in advance, so please don’t send me a graphic on the day of the event and expect it to show up in this feature.

For much more comprehensive guides to things you can get into in our region, check out these two wonderful resources:

Cristen Michael has created an interactive calendar that is way more comprehensive than this list of STUFF TO DO, and you can find it HERE. Just click on the day and the event and you’ll be whisked away to a page with more details about loads of area events.

Mya Ross at Status Quo does a much better job of compiling a list of local events than I do, and you can find the WTSQ guide to events HERE. Toss ’em a donation while you’re over there.

You can find live music in and around town every night of the week. You just have to know where to look.  Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Among the notable music venues in town are The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe, Live at The Shop in Dunbar, Louie’s, at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, In Huntington, there’s local institution, The Loud (formerly The V Club),  The Wandering Wind Meadery is on Charleston’s West Side, Plus there’s music in Charleston at The Blue Parrot, Sam’s Uptown Cafe and Fife Street Brewing. Plus there are free concerts almost every weekend at Taylor Books.

You might also find cool musical events at Folklore Music Exchange in Charleston.

To hear music in an alcohol-free enviroment, see what’s happening at Pumzi’s, on Charleston’s West Side.

For cutting-edge independent art films, downstairs from Taylor Books you’ll find the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF. Each week they program several amazing movies in their intimate viewing room that you aren’t likely to see anywhere else.

Please remember that viral illnesses are still a going concern and many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out. And if you’re at an outdoor event, please remember that it’s awfully inconsiderate to smoke or vape around people who become ill when exposed to that stuff. If somebody asks you to refrain, please respect their weishes and don’t be a jerk about it.

Here’s a few select suggestions for STUFF TO DO in and around Charleston and Huntington this weekend…

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Radio Free Charleston is ALL-NEW as we welcome our first-ever guest programmer for hour three Tuesday on The AIR!  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This week we have a show where the first two hours are jam-packed with great new local and indie music, as well as a few surprises, and then for our third hour, I turn over the programming duties to Jon Raider, an old friend who many folks may know as the drummer for Strawfyssh back in the day, and also as the creator and curator of The Scene group at Facebook.

When Jon’s schedule opens up, we hope to welcome him to The AIR to host his own show, but for now he’s going to pop up every few weeks by programming our third hour. This week he’s given us a Rockabilly goldmine, and it’s an absolute treat for your ears.

Before we get there, we have another killer collection of RFC music. Our first hour opens with a new single from GRPPLNG, the power punk group also known as the acclaimed wrestling tag team, The Motor City Machine Guns.  We also have new tracks from David Synn, Stick Men, Jim Lange, Riffstone, The Surfrajettes, Erik Woods, Messer Chups, William Matheny, Matching Outfits, Red Spot Rhythm Section and more.

Two of the artists giving us new tracks have great new videos to go along with them: Stitch Jones and His Bionic Marines and Schells & Vine. Check those out.

The playlist Jon gave us for our third hour is cram-packed full of Rockabilly greatness. 22 songs by 20 artists that will stir your soul and make you want to move your feet and ass…possibly even in that order.  He’s given us classics from the 1950s to modern times and the artists range from legends like Buddy Holly and Carl Perkins to overlooked masters like Thumper Jones and Pat Capocci.

I don’t have links for the artists in the third hour because, let’s face it, not a lot of folks who recorded seven decades ago are all that web-savvy, but you folks who are curious do know how to use the Google, right?

Bringing in a guest programmer is an exciting new experiment for RFC, and if the first one is any indication, it’s a smash hit.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page for the first two hours of the show…

RFC V5 284

hour one
GRPPLNG “Sleep”
David Synn “Indulgence of the Flesh”
Stick Men “Thief of the Dice”
Jim Lange “AFI Clip 7”
Riffstone “Mariana”
Tautologic “That’s What I Hear”
Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines “Greatest Day”
Schells & Vine “Free”
The Surfrajettes “Heart of Glass (live)”
best dressed ghost “Peach Melvin”
Guy Parker, Dirt Reynolds, Mark Shambles, Sea Monster, Steve Sleaze “Ace of Spades (live)”
Jerks “Riptide”
Samuel S.C. “Celestial”
Erik Woods “Winter’s Solstice Solace”
Trio “Out In The Streets”

hour two
Messer Chups “Mad Monster Party”
William Matheny “Fairmont Hair”
The Waterboys “The Man With The Wind At His Heels”
Corduroy Brown “Hold The Line (live at the West Edge Factory)”
Sasha Colette & The Magnolias “Sacred Place”
Rocco DeLuca “Nightengale”
Matching Outfits “Leave It”
Red Spot Rhythm Section “Win For Losing”
Feeders “Back To Indiana”
James McCartney “I’ll Say What I Want To”
Billy Strings “Burn The Other End”
The Holler Hounds “Take Your Shot”
June Swoon “Someone Else’s Dream”
Hello June “Faded Blue”

hour three
Guest-programmer: Jon Raider
“Westside At Midnight”
Buddy Holly “I’m Changing All Those Changes”
Roy Hall “Three Alley Cats”
Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars “Havin’ A Ball”
Gene Maltais “The Raging Sea”
Glen Glenn “Everybody’s Movin'”
Thumper Jones “Rock It”
Rockin’ Ryan and The Real Goners “Please Tease Louise”
Hal Harris “Sixteen Chicks”
Sonny Fisher “Rockin’ Daddy”
Lillian Briggs “I Want You To Be My Baby”
The Blasters “No Other Girl”
Sid King & The Five Strings “Sag Drag and Fall”
Eddie Bond “Flip Flop Mama”
Charlie Feathers & His Musical Warriors “The Wild Side of Life”
Jackie Lee Cochran “Ruby Pearl”
Rockin’ Ryan and The Real Goners “Caged Heat”
Rip Carson and the Twilight Trio “I’m Gonna Drink”
Pat Capocci “Slave For The Beat”
Wanda Jackson “Run Devil Run”
Flat Duo Jets “John Law/You Only Live Twice”
Carl Perkins “Jive After Five”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. We bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift, featuring the best Swing Music from the last century!

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.

This time our art is a wee bit of a departure from the series of pieces I’ve posted here over the last several weeks based on photos taken from the very slow-moving Amtrak Cardinal as it was leaving Chicago last June.

This time, we are back to watercolor on textured paper, but we are still on the same train. However, we are considerably farther along in our journey. We are in Northern Indiana, and rather than go with the moody twilight in the original photo, I decided to see if I could change the view into an early morning scene.

This move injected some possibly-too-subtle-to-notice surrealism, but it made it more interesting for me to paint. I also went with a less-saturated look.

Some of this was because I’m running low on watercolors at the moment.

Anyway, the end result came out more Hopperesque than I’d intended, but that can’t be a bad thing, can it?

If you want to see this image larger click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with an encore of a more recent episode of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.

You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page. Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.

I don’t like to repeat the videos I post here in Sunday Evening Video very often, but this one has become an annual tradition and hardly anybody reads the blog on Labor Day weekend anyway and I could really use a bit more slacking-off time after my anniversary trip, so here goes, for the seventh time.

If you are of a certain age, Labor Day seems synonymous with The Jerry Lewis Labor Day MDA Telethon, which the famed comedian hosted for almost sixty years.

The telethon is gone, as is Jerry, but MDA (the Muscular Dystrophy Association) maintains a YouTube page where they still post highlights from the vaults.

Above you see a playlist with over a hundred videos of musical legends like Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, B.B. King, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Toni Basil and many others. Best of all, you can watch these clips without sitting through four hours of corporate spokespeople droning on in a monotone about how much they care about the kids. I mean, no offense to the guy from 7 11, but I’m pretty sure they play those parts on an endless loop in hell. Above you see the good stuff, the cream of the crop.

Seriously, there are some gems in there like Duran Duran, MC Hammer and Charo. There’s lots of Charo. Lots of MC Hammer, too, now that I think about it.

Enjoy!

This week we go back to November, 2014 for a full-length episode of RFC loaded with a variety of music and animation. That would be music from Sasha Colette, Tyler Childers and Elephant in the Room, and animation from Third Mind Incarnation and Frank Panucci.

The music was recorded between 2010 and 2014 at LiveMix Studio, The Dunbar Lanes and The Empty Glass, and some of the animation dates back to 2007. This was an archive-diving episode of Radio Free Charleston, even though some of the music had just been recorded days before it went live.

You can read the original production notes HERE.

The PopCulteer
September 4, 2026

We’re going to have a few short items or photos this week because, full disclosure here, your humble blogger is not quite recovered from his nine-day anniversary excursion up North, and is still struggling to get back into the groove of cranking out daily material for this blog.

We got back six days ago, but between a plumbing emergency (since resolved, thanks to the fine folks at Mullen), and the gas company spending the week loudly tearing up the street just outside my office window, your humble correspondent has found himself too pooped to PopCult.

I have a ton of stuff to bring you, including photos and video from The Hershey Action Figure and Toy Show, a photo essay of our visit to the Museum of Ceramics, a few non-copyright-infringey pictures from The Warhol Museum, and some other items from the trip, but I want to do those up correctly, and that means maybe getting a little rest first.

I’m at the age where, after a vacation, I need a brief staycation in order to recover.

But I do have a few things to share today, so here goes…

It’s BANDCAMP FRIDAY Again!

Bandcamp Friday is back this Friday, September 4.

On select Fridays throughout the year, Bandcamp waives their share of sales. This means fans can support artists more directly. It all goes back to that whole “by your music in an ethical manner” thing that I talk about every week on Radio Free Charleston.

It’s a great time to pick up that album you’ve had your eye on, explore something new, or revisit an old favorite. You can even download new music that’s just released today, like the new single from David Synn.

Bandcamp Friday lasts 24 hours, starting at midnight Pacific time, so that means that it’s going on now. You can find the playlists for every episode of RFC in our archives, and whenever possible, the artist’s names in those playlists will take you to a Bandcamp page so you can show your support.

Let me reuse a few paragraphs I wrote earlier this year:

On Bandcamp Friday, they waive their usual fees and the artists get to keep virtually ALL of the money spent on their music and merch that they sell through Bandcamp.

This is why I like to plug Bandcamp Friday. As I just explained, that’s the day when my favored streaming service, Bandcamp, foregoes their usual cut of the money and lets the artists keep all the money spent on their music and merch.

The artists get a much bigger cut of the proceeds.  If you scroll down and check out almost any post about an episode of Radio Free Charleston that has a playlist in this blog since 2023, you will find that the list of artists have links, many of which take you directly to that artist’s Bandcamp page.

I’m talking about the likes of The Settlement, Byzantine, Brian Diller,  Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess , Corduroy Brown,  Frenchy & The Punk, The M.F.B. , Saycouth , June Swoon, Samuel S.C, Custard Flux and many many others. Plus this is a good time to pick up older releases and merch from your favorite local and indie artists.

You know what to do to support the local scene and independent artists.

Remember, it’s not just digital downloads. You can order vinyl, CDs, Cassettes, T Shirts, hats and all kinds of other cool band merch.

Random Images From The Trip

I want to get this post up and running early so I can slack off the rest of the day, so here’s a few more random pics from the big trip. Expect full photo essays and a video starting next week.

Squidward and Plankton are big fans of my friend, Pixie. Here they are catching up on her Tik Tok after commandeering my laptop.

Somehow I managed to resist the urge to buy this 1/4 scale antique diving helmet at Pottery City in East Liverpool, Ohio. Maybe it was because, despite it looking really cool, it weighed a ton and I didn’t want to carry it around the store.

In Akron, fancy people shop at Dollar Tree.

It’s Halloween at IKEA.

We spotted some of the Lafufiest Lafufery in mall kiosks on this trip.

For the love of God, I hope somebody let him out of there.

And with that, this week’s PopCulteer is done. Check back for our regular features and fresh content every day, and with any luck we’ll be back to our normal posting capacity next week.

Your PopCulteer is back from his anniversary trip, rested up and ready to bring you the first of several photo essays devoted to the cool stuff we saw and did on our trip. Today is all about Fiesta Tableware!

We’re doing these out of order, so don’t expect any strict continuity here.

Today we bring you more than a dozen photos from inside the museum that visitors get to see at the end of the Fiesta Factory Tour.  Sadly, we did not get to go on the tour as scheduled. Something happened that caused the production line to be shut down, so we were taken to a small room and took the video tour instead,  It was a minor disappointment, but it also gives us an excuse to make another visit sometime in the future.  When you schedule the tour, they warn you in advance that it might be replaced with a video tour, so we were prepared for the possibility.

Plus, the video was pretty intriguing. And we got to watch it in the small room that serves as the Homer Laughlin/Fiesta museum that we’d get to see at the end of the regular tour. This was a big part of the attraction for Mel, so the day was not a total loss.

In fact, that room was filled with so much cool stuff that Mel came away with several new grails to seek out for her collection, and I grabbed a ton of photos, from which I have fifteen for you to see today.

There is such a rich history of the former Homer Laughlin company, and they made lots of things in that factory that we were not previously aware of, so it was still a wonderful time.

Ironically, that room with museum is behind a door that we have obliviously walked right past every time we’ve been to the Fiesta Outlet Store before.

We do want to return for the physcial tour, but I understand that they shut the tour down in October, until January, so that they can start doing experimental runs of the next color that won’t be unveiled until the new year.

But here’s some highlights of that awesome collection in the museum…

The room is filled, floor-to-ceiling, with rare pieces from the history of Homer Laughlin/Fiesta.

Everywhere you look, you see examples of rare commemorative pieces and retired colors.

This amazing Art Deco vase was mind-blowing, and then we found out that, shockingly, it was a very limited production that was only made five years ago.

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STUFF TO DO is PopCult‘s weekly guide to just a few of the great events happening in Charleston, Huntington and a few other points here in West Virginia, and sometimes a little beyond our borders, in the coming days. We are back after a week off, cavorting around between Hershey, Akron, Newell and Pittsburgh, and we are going to shrink this feature again this week, since it’s working out pretty well to be more selective.

We’re not doing a featured event this week because this weekend is Labor Day, and there seems to be a dearth of big local shows to plug. So maybe get out and enjoy the unofficial end of summer with family and/or friends.

Each week I try to tell you about a few cool events all around the state that you might not know about.  If you have a show that you’d like to plug in the future you can still contact me via Social Media at Facebook, BlueSky, Spoutible, Instagram or Twitter.  I dont charge for this, so you might as well send me something if you have an event to promote.

I do ask that you send a graphic that includes the date, time and location, of the event, as well as the cost to attend.  I can’t promise that I’ll run it here,  but chances are I will unless it’s something completely offensive or an event happening in South Carolina. If it looks original and charmingly weird, you have a better chance of seeing it here.

Keep in mind that I’ll need this several days in advance, so please don’t send me a graphic on the day of the event and expect it to show up in this feature.

For much more comprehensive guides to things you can get into in our region, check out these two wonderful resources:

Cristen Michael has created an interactive calendar that is way more comprehensive than this list of STUFF TO DO, and you can find it HERE. Just click on the day and the event and you’ll be whisked away to a page with more details about loads of area events.

Mya Ross at Status Quo does a much better job of compiling a list of local events than I do, and you can find the WTSQ guide to events HERE. Toss ’em a donation while you’re over there.

You can find live music in and around town every night of the week. You just have to know where to look.  Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Among the notable music venues in town are The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe, Live at The Shop in Dunbar, Louie’s, at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, In Huntington, there’s local institution, The Loud (formerly The V Club),  The Wandering Wind Meadery is on Charleston’s West Side, Plus there’s music in Charleston at The Blue Parrot, Sam’s Uptown Cafe and Fife Street Brewing. Plus there are free concerts almost every weekend at Taylor Books.

You might also find cool musical events at Folklore Music Exchange in Charleston.

To hear music in an alcohol-free enviroment, see what’s happening at Pumzi’s, on Charleston’s West Side.

For cutting-edge independent art films, downstairs from Taylor Books you’ll find the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF. Each week they program several amazing movies in their intimate viewing room that you aren’t likely to see anywhere else.

Please remember that viral illnesses are still a going concern and many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out. And if you’re at an outdoor event, please remember that it’s awfully inconsiderate to smoke or vape around people who become ill when exposed to that stuff. If somebody asks you to refrain, please respect their weishes and don’t be a jerk about it.

Here’s a few select suggestions for STUFF TO DO in and around Charleston and Huntington this weekend…

Your humble blogger and radio host is back from a fun, but exhausting vacation, and that means that, once again, Tuesday is NEW RFC DAY on The AIR  and today is where we bring you a brand-new three-hour episode of Radio Free Charleston!  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This week is a wee bit unusual because I’m writing this post several hours before I will be recording my announcing bits for the show. I have it planned out, and it should follow the playlist below, but the joys of home ownership are preventing me from committing the time to record the show properly until late Monday evening.

However, we do have a killer show, loaded with tons of brand-new local and independent music, plus a few cool ringers and deep-album cuts for your amazement and amusement.

This week’s new tunes come from our show-opener, Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, and also include new tracks from Erik Woods, Rocco DeLuca, The Feeders, Red Spot Rhythm Section, Julez and the Rollerz, Jim Lange, The Tirith, Duck City Music, and lots of recently-released cuts by Vinto Van Go, Thee Leviathans, Magic Sands, The Matt Berry Trio, Todd Burge & Larry Groce, Minor Swing, Hardy Mums, The Anchoress, Stitch Jones & his Bionic Marines, Stick Men and Snowy White. We also have new live tracks from The Specials, Sparks and Renaissance.

I think it’s a pretty rockin’ show, considering that I just got back in town less than 48 hours ago, and I have to wait for a plumber to fix a runaway terlet when I should be recording this show.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page where possible…

RFC V5 283

hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Love Me Not”
Erik Woods “Muse of the Loon” (Grimpyus)
Rocco DeLuca “Doctor’s Lament”
The Feeders “Permanent Blackout”
Thee Leviathans “The Lonely Esper”
Vinto Van Go “Ziggy Is An Alien”
Red Spot Rhythm Section “Fresh Air”
Julez and the Rollerz “Always Hard 4 U”
The Specials “Rat Race (live from the Cathedral)”
Sparks “All You Ever Think About Is Sex (Live On The Moon)”
Jim Lange “Velvet Memories Intro with Dialogue”
Magic Sands “Vaquero”
Matt Berry Trio “Everything’s Peachy Pt. 5”
The Tirith “Masters of Highways”

hour two
Best Dressed Ghost “Oyster City, Utah”
Todd Burge & Larry Groce “Corn Whiskey VS Hard Cider (Demo)”
Dr. John “Let ‘Em In”
Minor Swing “House of the Rising Sun”
Hardy Mums “The Almost Lovers”
The Anchoress “What You Did”
Stitch Jones and his Bionic Marines “Five Years”
Ghoulbox “Diggin’ You”
The Stranglers “Toiler On The Sea (live)”
Lene Lovich “Hold On To Love”
IDKHOW “Kiss Goodnight”
David Synn (featuring Across The Frostlands) “Duality”
Decomposing In Paris “Ambition”

hour three
Duck City Music ft. John Jigg$ prod. by Nam Nitty “Do It Again”
Superfetch “Funkytown (live)”
A Different Scene “Chocolate Milk Saturdays”
Nothing To Protect “and”
Stick Men “Komodo”
Renaissance “Things I Don’t Understand (live)”
Snowy White and The White Flames “The Finishing Touch”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift, featuring the best Swing Music from the last century!

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.

Let’s pick up where we left off in our series of pastels based on a recent trip. It was during a slow meander through the South Side of Chicago, which is normally a brief part of the trip where Amtrak’s Cardinal rides on an elevated track, but for that particularly trip it took nearly an hour. .

Like the last two weeks, I used pastel crayons on texutred paper. This week we’re back in the railyard for a piece based on elements from several photos I took during this slow trip. It’s more of what I’ve been doing, combining scenes from this trip into compositions that I hope are somewhat artisitic.

Harkening back to my time spent studying the work of Hopper, I took advantage of the extreme early evening shadows and based this work on the crossing signal from one photo, the intermodal cars from another, the sky from a third, and the rest from a fourth.

It seems to have come out almost natural-looking.

If you want to see this image larger click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with an encore of a more recent episode of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.

You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page. Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.