Tuesday is another great day to tune into The AIR  with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston to tickle your fancy! 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.

While today is a great day to tune into The AIR, yesterday wasn’t such a great day to record a radio show. The city decided that Monday was a great day to rip up and replace the sidewalk across the street from my office (where I record the show), so I only did one hour of new stuff, and then reached deep into my archvies for a two-hour edition of RFC Volume 3, that originally ran over ten years ago on Voices of Appalachia/New Appalachian Radio.  This is a gem of a show that I’ve been saving for when it was most needed, and that time is now.

Before we get there, our first hour opens with a new tune from Ron Sowell.  Following that we have the RFC return of Dropcoat, plus some great new tracks from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, The Settlement, M, Vinto Van Go, Blood Orange, The Surfrajettes, The M.F.B., Brian Diller and more. It is our usual combination of excellent local, independent and cult musical artistes.

Our second and third hours take us back to May, 2015, when we wer doing the show as a podcast while waiting for technical issues to be worked out at Voices of Appalachia. This was a show with a mix of then-new and archive music from local and regional musical artists for the first half, while the second half was a solid block of Boone County’s own, Hasil Adkins.

So this week our third hour celebrates the music of Hasil Adkins. Born in 1937 and gone for just over twenty years now, Hasil Adkins was a West Virginia original. Acording to Wikipedia, the Boone County native’s songs “explored an affinity for chicken, sexual intercourse and decapitation, and were isolated in obscurity until being unearthed in the 1980s.”

That’s a pretty good bonus, you know, getting an hour of The Haze because it was too loud for me to record a whole, three-hour show. You should thank the City of Dunbar.

Hasil was the second local artist played on the RFC broadcast radio show, back in 1989.  The first was the daughter of a car dealer who advertised on the station, so Hasil was the first local music I played of my own choosing.

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

RFC V5 240

hour one
Ron Sowell “Dance Till The Music Stops”
Dropcoat “It Can Only Go Up From Here”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mes “Lie To Me”
The Settlement “The One That Got Away”
Vinto Van Go“Zelda Outside Havana 1939”
Neil Finn “The Rest of the Day Off”
A Tale of Two ” “Gun Street Girl”
Brian Diller “Heroes”
The M.F.B. “Dr. Feel”
Blood Orange “The Train (King’s Cross)”
M Robin Scott “Cut The Cards”
The Surfrajettes “Banshee Bop”
June Swoon “Marrying Kind”
Cold Slither “Zartan’s Revenge”

hour two
Crystal Bright and The Silver Hands “Earth Above My Roots”
Byzantine “You Sleep, We Wake”
The Lunatic Society “Dead Inside”
No Pretty Pictures “Go Mart Crack Lighter”
Alan Griffith “Blowin’ In The Wind”
Alan Griffith “Samson and Delilah”
Go Van Gogh “I Don’t Want To Be Your Hero”
Go Van Gogh “I Can’t Sleep At Night”
J Marinelli “Month of Mondays”
The Company Stores “Silence”
Radio Cult “Ace of Spades”
Wolfgang Parker “Mata Hari”
The Renfields “Killer Klowns”
Under Surveillance “I Don’t Think It’s Me”
Pepper Fandango “Wishbone Blues”
William Matheny “If You See Him Tonight”

hour three

Hasil Adkins

“The Hunch”
“Chicken Walk”
“Ugly Woman”
“If You Want to Be My Baby, Baby”
“Get Out of My Car”
“Rock The Blues”
“Jenny Lou”
“Donnie Boogie”
“I Don’t Love You”
“No More Hot Dogs”
“Truly Ruly”
“Rock N Roll Tonight”
“She Said”
“Shake That Thing”
“Let’s Stop Tonight”
“Tell Me Baby”
“Big Fat Mama”
“Walk and Talk With Me”
“I Need Your Head”
“I Want Some Lovin’”
“Shake With Me”

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  The Swing Shift is an encore of two classic episodes.

 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.