We are two weeks into 2025 and we have a new three hour show for you!  Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have a new episode of  Radio Free Charleston for you. 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 RFC brings you three hours of cool stuff, starting with the latest single by Matt Berry. It’s the title track of his new album, filled with early-70s-style California funkiness, and it’s due out next week.  After that we have new stuff from Todd Burge, Shining Glass, The Polkamaniacs, Franz Ferdinand, Ringo Starr, SPACE FREQ, and more,

I also dive into the archives for a lot of local tracks, plus some of my patented programming non-sequitors. It’s a fun show.

And speaking of diving into the archives, I actually had a longtime listener contact me and ask if I could play the 1973 Columia Records sampler, The Guitars That Destroyed The World.

I didn’t have the album. I really didn’t get into music heavily until the late 70s, but I remember seeing the ads for this in The National Lampoon. The Underground Comix art style used on the sleeve really caught my attention.

It turns out not to be too hard to track down. Columbia/SONY kept this in print, and it eventually made it out on CD.  It’s a pretty killer collection of guitar virtuosos who were signed to Columbia at the time. I don’t have links for these artists in the playlist below, but they aren’t too hard to track down using a Google machine. It was fun to reassemble this, and hear the compilation in full after more than half a century of wondering what was behind this cover.

It’s not a long album, so I filled up the rest of our third hour with the work of three of our local guitar gods.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show except for the compilation recreation…

RFC V5 210

hour one
Matt Berry  “Wedding Photo Stranger”
Todd Burge “Snow”
Shining Glass “Drawing Fire”
The Polkamaniacs “Stealing From Work (Death Deluxe Remix)”
Eurythmics “Caveman Head”
SPACE FREQ “Submerge”
Dinosaur Burps “Perversions of Nature”
Franz Ferdinand “Hooked”
Red Audio “Robotomy”
DEVO “Monsterman”
Ultravox “All Stood Still”
Clownhole “Get A Grip”
David Synn “Poseidon”
Fabulous Head  “C U Move”
Tonto’s Expanding Headband “Timewhys”

hour two
Kate Fagan “Go Faster”
Ringo Starr “Rosetta”
Blue Million “No Man’s Land”
Deni Bonet  “Red Dog”
Raymond Scott “Powerhouse”
The Bible Beaters “Can’t Get To Heaven”
Ghoulbox “Rats In The Morgue”
Bad Keys of the Mountain “I’ll Get By”
Brian Diller“Sooner or Later”
Matt Deal “Our Front Porch”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Kira”
The Boatmen “Heartbreak Hangover”
The Settlement “Bertha”
The Cure “Warsong”

hour three
Dr. Curmudgeon “My Deamon Math Metal Tune Just Ate Your Artsy-Folksy Americana Song…Sorry!”

The Guitars That Destroyed The World
Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles “Marbles”
Jhnny Winter and Rick Derringer “Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo”
Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin “The Dance of Maya”
West, Bruce and Laing “Pleasure”
Blue Oyster Cult “Buck’s Boogie”
Mountain “Don’t Look Around”
Santana “Waves Within”
Edgar Winter’s White Trash “Keep Playin’ That Rock ‘N’ Roll”
Spirit “Dark Eyed Woman”

Byzantine  “Vile Maxim”
4 OHM MONO ‘The Death and Resurrection of a Salesman”

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.