Somehow Tuesday has happened once again on The AIR.  As such, we have a sort of 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.

Like last week, this week’s show features two hours of vintage RFC, dredged up and resurrected for you listening pleasure.

This week our all-new first hour opens with a new single from Matt Berry (with Kitty Liv), which is a teaser for his next album. The rest of our first hour is a mix of old and new, local and independent music.

In our second and third hours, we transport you back to the second half of an all-local showcase edition of Radio Free Charleston Volume 1, from January, 1990.  This was originally presented as an episode of RFC International in 2016,but it hasn’t been heard in over seven years.  Here’s what I wrote about it then…

It was early in January, 1990, right after RFC had been the subject of a profile in the Charleston Gazette written by Michael Lipton that I decided to devote all four hours of the show that was then broadcast on 96.1 FM, to local artists.

In part one, on RFC (heard here last week), you heard blocks of music from Brian Diller and The Ride, Three Bodies, Zone 3, The Bounty and more, plus we had a mini-history of Go Van Gogh as of 1990. RFC International brings you music from World Without Fear, Blue Million, Delta Hum The Swivels and more, plus we play side one of the first Stark Raven album.

Setting the scene, the last song we played last time was Larry Groce doing a cover of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry.” We’re going to pick up where we left off with Larry doing a Warren Zevon tune.

It is cool to bring back some of these blasts from the past, even if I am mainly doing it so I can forget about blogging and radio-ing while I’m on vacation.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages for the local and independent artists where possible…

RFC V5 196

hour one
Matt Berry with Kitty Liv “I Gotta Limit”
The Defectors “Easy Target”
David Synn “Ryden’s Madness”
The Settlement “Linger (live)”
Carey Ott featuring The Freaks of Nashville “No Front”
The Aquabats “The Ballad of Shapeshifting Pilgrim Boy”
The Dread Crew of Oddwood” Giant Demon Crab”
HARRAH “Pay The Piper”
Byzantine“Ancestry Of The Antichrist”
J Marinelli “Saturn of Clarksburg”

hour two
Larry Groce “Accidentally Like A Martyr”
Blue Million “Everything Inside Out”
Blue Million “I’ll Keep You Warm”
David Lanham Band “Rock With You”
David Lanham Band “Small Town Blues”
World Without Fear “Nothing”
World Without Fear “Please Don’t Love Me”
Delta Hum “Three Ring Binder”
Mad Scientist Club “Live Song”
Mad Scientist Club “Thunder and Lightning”
Mad Scientist Club “Doctor Owsley”
Still Portrait/Mark Scarpelli “Music that I don’t remember the titles to”

hour three
Stark Raven “Riding On A Wave”
“I Know You”
“Be With Me”
“Feel Only Love”
“He Loves To Limbo”
The Swivels “No Vaccination”
The Swivels “Mobile Man”
Tim Truman “Ten Dollar Dog”
Tim Truman “House Come Falling Down”
The Mystery Band “Mystery Songs”
Diamonds and Gold “No More Loving You”
Area 38 “Endgame”
The Amazing Delores “Rats In My Ceiling”
The Pudgy Young Upstarts “Uncontrollable Urge”

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. Ignore the date on the video. It’s messed up.

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.