Today your humble blogger and radio host is a wee bit preoccupied with real world things, so we have another hybrid RFC on The AIR.   Radio Free Charleston, is one-third-new, but includes two hours all-local RFC Volume 4, which hasn’t been heard by human ears for more than eight years.  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 tons of replays throughout the week.

Our first hour opens with brand-new music (just seven days old) from Corduroy Brown. The esteemed Mr. Brown will be debuting a video later today, and he’ll be performing at Valley Park in Teays Valley on August 23, and at Heritage Station in Huntington on August 24.

The rest of our first hour offers up great new local and indie tracks from Emmaline, Massing, Nick Lowe, John Radcliff and Sgt. Van & The Highway Dogs. We also have some great vintage tracks and we even sneak in the Post Malone collaboration with Sierra Ferrell, just for curiosity’s sake.

Our second and third hours dig up and resurrect two one-hour episodes of Radio Free Charleston Volume 4 from January, 2017.  These are diverse collections of local and regional artists, and you’ll hear Metal, Hip Hop, Punk, Prog, Trip-Hop, Americana, plain old Rock N Roll and more. It’s a cool kind of “Hamburger Helper” to stretch out this week’s show while I take care of some medical things.

Here’s the playlist for the first hour of the show. Follow the links for details on the artists…

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hour one
Corduroy Brown “Doin’ My Best”
Emmaline “Strike”
Massing “Flattery (rejuiced)”
Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets “Trombone”
Government Cheese “Face In The Crowd”
Post Malone featuring Sierra Ferrell “Never Love You Again”
John Radcliff “We All Want to Shout”
Novo Combo “We Need Love”
Mediogres “Sleep Fizz Sleep”
Unmanned “Edge of Night/Light The Beacons”
The Dread Crew of Oddwood  “Lost Comrades”
Velez Manifesto “Heart of Steel”
Frenchy & The Punk“Lighting Up The Sky”
Sgt. Van and The Highway Dogs “My Friend Joe”

hour two
HARRAH “Man Alive”
Deni Bonet “Frankenstein”
Miniature Giant “Wendigo”
John Lancaster “Phantom Moon”
Karma To Burn “Waltz of the Playboy Pallbearers”
Embracer “Below”
Mother Nang “Ride”
The Defectors “Easy Target”
David Synn “Battle of Annihilation”
Foz Rotten “Funklips”
South Park Enterprise “Next Level”
Decomposing in Paris “Personal Ad”
Snakebox “Dead Planet”
Watt 4 “Bad Situation”

hour three
The Rose Garden (Diane Derose) “I’m Only Second”
Jeff Ellis and 40 Days “American Dream”
Lady D “Higher”
Spurgie Hankins Band “Dirty Rule”
Donny Iris “River of Love”
Company Stores “Rise”
The Boatmen “Heartbreak Hangover”
Joe Vallina “Year of the Wicked”
John Radcliff “Hanging On”
The Monsoon Band “Don’t Cry”
The Horse Traders “Southbound 65”
The Nanker Phelge “Killer Took A Holiday”
Joseph Hale “Time”

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 give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 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 Thursday and Sunday evenings.