Jon Raider Returns To RFC With More Rockabilly

Radio Free Charleston is MOSTLY-NEW as we welcome back our guest programmer for a Rockabilly rundown in our third hour Tuesday 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 Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This week we have a show where the first two hours are jam-packed with great new local and indie music, as well as a mild case of Déjà vu, and then for our third hour, I once again turn over the programming duties to Jon Raider, an old friend who many folks may know as the drummer for Strawfyssh back in the day, and also as the creator and curator of The Scene group at Facebook.

When Jon’s schedule opens up, we hope to welcome him to The AIR to host his own show, but for now he’s going to pop up every few weeks by programming our third hour. This week he’s given us another Rockabilly goldmine, and it’s an absolute treat for your ears.

Before we get there, we have another killer collection of RFC music. Our first hour opens with a new from Vinto Van Go, the Chicago band that brings fun back to music and still rocks out. We also have new music from William Matheny, The Surfrajettes and, another band that comes to us courtesy of the Chicago pipeline, Canoe Speed. can  next be seen performing in Chicago as part of a “Porch Fest, on October 24, and if you’re in the area and want to see them live, you will be able to get all the details HERE, a couple of weeks. We also toss in another classic track from HARRAH, just because we’re still missing our old friend, Lee Harrrah.

Following that all-new first set, we jump back a few months and bring you some great segments from RFC early in the year because your humble radio host needed to rest his voice after a long train ride back from Charm City. I’ll tell you about our lightning trip to Baltimore tomorrow.

However, I was able to nurse my throat back to usable form with Zero Sugar Ale 8 1 in time to host our guest-curated third hour.

The playlist Jon gave us for our third hour is cram-packed full of Rockabilly greatness. 23 songs that will stir your soul and make you want to move your feet and ass…possibly even in that order.  He’s given us classics from the 1950s to modern times and the artists range from legends like Bill Haley and The Stray Cats to overlooked masters like Eddie Bond and Johnny Faire. You’ll even hear local star, Sierra Ferrell, with her original song, “In Dreams,” which I mistakenly call a cover. Sorry, Sierra.

I don’t have links for the artists in the third hour because, let’s face it, not a lot of folks who recorded seven decades ago are all that web-savvy, but you folks who are curious do know how to use the Google, right?

Right now the plan is to turn over hour three of RFC to Jon every three or four weeks.  When the timing works out, Jon will likely be spinning off to host his own show on The AIR.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page for the first two hours of the show…

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hour one
Vinto Van Go “Gimme Skeltered”
William Matheny “Material Witness”
best dressed ghost “Pony Up The Dough, Gwyneth”
The Surfrajettes “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)”
HARRAH “Ode To Billie Davis”
The Animal Sound feat. Kevin Reesor of Super Soaked “Barbie Girl”
Canoe Speed “This Is Not The War You Wanted-Nobodies”
U2 “American Obituary”
Tape Age “The Dossier”
June Swoon “Someone Else’s Dream”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Telephone Gangs”
The Other Timelines featuring The 4D Man “Drones”
Gogol Bordello “We Did Good With The Good We Did”
Buzzcocks “Queen Of The Scene”
Nervous Twitch “Knitting With Anger”
The Polkamaniacs “Roll Out The Barrel (Psychotribe Remix)”

hour two
Ghoulbox “Juju Bag”
Parry Casto “It’s A Beautiful Day”
The Myth of Logic “An Empath In Exile”
Parenthèse “Nosferatu”
The Settlement “Cycles”
Massing “Soup Blanket”
They Might Be Giants “Eyeball”
Custard Flux “The Oblivion Capsule”
CHUM “Headhunter”
The Residents “Beet War”

hour three
Imelda May “Johnny’s Got A Boom Boom”
Frank Hammer “World of Pleasure”
Johnny Faire “Bertha Lou”
Omar Romero “Have A Ball”
Stray Cats “Baby Blue Eyes”
Savage Breed “Rumor”
Barbara Allen “Sweet Willie”
Bebo & The Good Time Boys “Do No Right”
Stan Johnson “Six White Horses”
Chuy & the Bobcats “All I Can Do Is Cry”
The Belairs “Squad Car”
The Desperados Let’s Get Wild”
The Wise Guyz “Jumping Record”
Arsen Roulette “Lovin’ On My Mind”
TJ Mayes “Hey Little Diddle”
Sierra Ferrell “In Dreams”
Johnny Mercury “No Money Honey”
Eddie Bond “Boppin’ Bonnie”
Wiley Barkdull “I Ain’t Gonna Waste My Time”
Curtis Gordon “Draggin'”
Bunny Paul “Whatcha Gonna do”
Bill Haley & The Comets “Crazy Man, Crazy”
Rip Carson “TOXIC!!!”

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. 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 get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift, featuring the best Swing Music from the last century!

 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.