It’s been just about a year since we lost Lynne Sandy.

Lynne Sandy, a friend and a Charleston music legend passed last August, and her loss is still being felt. You can hear a special episode of Radio Free Charleston (the radio show) that includes an in-depth interview with Lynne HERE. A video edition of RFC brought you archival footage of Lynne with her band, The Defectors, perfrming at The Criel Mound in South Charleston. You can se that HERE.

When we dropped that show I promised you guys a documentary about the life and music of Lynne Sandy, and I am running behind schedule producing that documentary. To hold you over, and to observe the anniversary of Lynne’s passing, I brought you a chunk of that concert that had not been seen publicly last week.

Above you see another chunk of that concert, remastered and sestores.  This is more of the the foundation of that documentary, which is a video of a performance by The Defectors, at the Criel Mound in South Charleston, on June 16, 1983. The video was shot by Dana Grooms.

This clip contains four complete songs: “I Want Candy,” “Take It All,” “Los Angeles” and “Easy Target.”  These have been restored and remastered for inclusion in the documentary. The goal is to completely restore the performance and record the interviews with Lynne’s bandmates and friends and have the finished film ready to go as soon as is logistically possible. We also have somebody working to further restore the audio, so it’ll sound better than what we have here.

To mark a year since Lynne’s passing, please enjoy this sneak peek at the work in progress, Over the next few months I plan to present more songs in this space.

It”s been a year, and we still miss Lynne very much.