Still Remembering A Friend and Playing Great New Music On RFC

Every Tuesday I tell you how great it is to tune into The AIR  and today that’s true again as we present you with a mostly-new 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 we open our show with new music from Charleston’s Minor Swing, and then bring you two hours loaded with great local, independent and cult music, plus this week we have an extra mission.

In our third hour, and a little of our first, we are celebrating the life of Brian Young, an RFC Big Shot whom we lost last December. Brian was an incredible musician, a very talented filmmaker, a great husband and father, and one of the best friends a person could have. As I’ve said in this blog before, Brian Young was one of the most consequential people in my life.  He was my right hand when I was producing RFC for WVNS radio. We collaborated on projects for over thirty years. He is the reason that Radio Free Charleston was revived as a video program in 2006, and still survives in its current form.

He was even there when Melanie and I had our first kiss…and he timed it. It was over seven minutes, according to Brian.

A celebration of Brian’s life will be held Friday, July 24, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 at Short Story Brewery on Summers Street. Brian’s most recent band, the New Old Souls, will perform, and all of the people who loved Brian are welcome to attend.

If all goes according to plan, I will have a new video episode of RFC, dedicated to Brian’s music and video work, ready to premiere in PopCult Wednesday or Thursday.

While editing this week’s show, I realized that sometime over the weekend, I’d bitten my tongue, and it left me with a slight lisp. I can’t help but think that Brian would have found my voice this week to be hilarious. That makes me smile…even with a sore tongue.

Check out this playlist, with links to some of the artist’s page…

RFC V5 278

hour one
Minor Swing “Sevilla”
Superfetch “She Loves It”
Whistlepunk “Spy Song”
William Matheny “Whip Poor Will”
The Samurai of Prog “The Valley of Diamonds”
Nothing to Protect “and”
Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines “Flying Space Adventures”
Finn Wolfhard “I’ll let You Finish”
Corduroy Brown “Brain Stew (Live)”

hour two
Dinosaur Burps “Drifting”
Stratifaction Music, Sirius Blueray and David Synn “Inside The Tarot”
Vinto Van Go “Ziggy Is An Alien”
Howard Jones “Things Can Only Get Better (Early Version-Farmyard Sessions)”
John Lennon “Love Meditation Mixes Wanting”
Brian Diller “Indian Summer”
Tunesmiths “No Alibi”
Mind Garage “Star Goddess”
Strange “The Kiss Of A Butterfly”
Le Mystère des voix bulgares “Erghen diado (Song of Schopsko)”
Decomposing In Paris “For Ribbons”
The Moon My Twin “Martyr”
Muse “Be With You”

hour three
The Brian Young Mixtape Tribute, including music by Three Bodies, Brian Young and Keith Walters, Whistlepunk, Mother Nang, Electro Biscuit and Superfetch. This was recorded the day after Brian passed away, and is presented as an encore hour here.

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 we bring you two classic editions of The Swing Shift, just to get you all Swingy and Stuff.

 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.