We are two days late with a drastically altered edition of Radio Free Charleston that you can hear today 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 Thursday at 2 PM, with several replays throughout the week.

This week’s show starts out with half an hour of great local and independent Holiday music, then brings you about 90 more minutes of our usual mix of local and independent tunes, with some great new music and contributions from our Chicago pipeline. We open the show with The Carpenter Ants featuring the legendary John Ellison, and then it’s smooth sailing until our third hour, which is a mixtape tribute to my friend, Brian Young.

I wrote about Brian yesterday, and I had to do something to honor his memory and musical excellence in the show. I actually had this episode of the show recorded and ready to edit when power outages slowed me down, and then I found out that Brian had passed.

So I threw out the third hour and re-recorded all my announcing segments late Wednesday evening. If you think I sound more sedate than usual, that’s why.

I’m not doing links or even a full playlist for the third hour because I’m recording this show so late on Wednesday night.

You will get to hear Brian’s music, plus a bit where he called into the original broadcast version of RFC and talked about a live, over-the-phone song he and Kris Cormany had performed the previous Thursday, from Key West, Florida. You’ll get to hear a hint of his humor there.  We’ll have more of that when we do the video tribute to him next month.

Check out the playlist. Links in the first two hours will take you to pages for the artists…

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hour one
The Carpenter Ants with John Ellison “Never Too Old For Christmas”
Jim And The Sea Dragons “Seaside Sleigh Ride”
Audrey Smiley “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
Brian Diller “Christmas Time of Year”
Deni Bonet & Chris Flynn “Can’t Wait To See You On Christmas”
PALLAS “Christmas Northern Star”
The Kevin Brown Quintet “Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel”
J. Marinelli “Crankers vs. Wankers”
Moron Police “Alfredo and the Afterlife”
Nervous Twitch “The Day Job Gets In The Way”
Payback’s A Bitch “Searching For Eden”
Magnetic Skies “Your Shadow”
Cheap Trick “Wham Boom Bang”
Gina Marie and the Golden Bucks “Snake Around”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “For a Livin’/Bad Breath (live)”

hour two
The 4D Man “Univac 9000”
Scott Collins “Nashville Sugar”
Gardenn “Empty Bottles”
Kissing The Pink “Love Lasts Forever”
Julian Lennon “I Won’t Give Up”
The Settlement “Blindman/Drums/Blindman Pt. 2 (live)”
Custard Flux “Les Mâchoires de la Mort”
Vexian Arch “This Empty Cup

hour three
The Brian Young Mixtape Tribute, including music by Three Bodies, Brian Yound and Keith Walters, Whistlepunk, Mother Nang, Electro Biscuit and Superfetch.

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Thursday at 2 PM on The AIR, with replays Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

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 special AIR Holiday programming.