Due to a quirk of the calendar and the fact that I only took one week off from producting RFC in 2024, Tuesday sees the fiftieth episode of the show this year….and there are still two weeks left.

The plan, as I write this, is to try to do normal shows on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, even though far fewer people will be tuning in.

So…things might get a little weird.

But let’s not overlook today’s new show.  Your humble blogger is back from his winter vacation/beautiful wife’s birthday trip and that means we are back to what passes for normal. Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have a newish 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 kicks off with one new hour of our regular RFC local/indie/alternative coolness, followed by a tribute to the late John Wetton that originally aired as an episode of Radio Free Charleston International nearly eight years ago.

The show kicks off with a brand-new song from a brand-new band, as Ghoulbox makes their Radio Free Charleston debut. Following that, I drop in a couple of RFC classics in tribute to my friend, “Tanker” Dave Matteston, who passed away last week. One detail I left out of his obituary here was that Dave was a big supporter of RFC, and I wanted to include songs from Whistepunk and Flare Baroshi, two musical acts he loved so much that I had to burn him CDs of their music.

We also have new tunes from Dinosaur Burps and Duck City Music, plus, courtesy of our Chicago pipeline, Coley Kennedy.  You’ll also find a set of Christmas tunes, including new tracks by Todd Burge, Emmaline and The Anchoress.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show where possible…

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hour one
Ghoulbox “Rats In The Morgue”
Whistlepunk “Into You”
Flare Baroshi “Phoenix”
The Sneaky Heat Missiles “Girl U Want”
Dinosaur Burps “Hellgrammite”
Duck City Music “We Gets Busy”
Candye Kane “I’m The Toughest Girl Alive”
Todd Burge “This Should’ve Been A Holiday”
Emmaline  “Zat You, Santa Claus”
The Anchoress “All I Want Is Truth For Christmas”
Jethro Tull  “Birthday Card At Christmas”
Wizzard “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day”
Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas (live)”
Coley Kennedy “(We Are) Born to Lose”

hour two
Asia “Heat of the Moment”
King Crimson “Easy Money (Live)”
UK “By The Light of Day”
Wetton-Downes “Kari Anne”
John Wetton “Turn On The Radio”
Asia “End of The World”
John Wetton, Adrian Belew, Alan White “Mother”
UK “Danger Money”
King Crimson “Starless”

hour three
Asia “An Extraordinary Life”
John Wetton “The Smile Has Left Your Eyes”
John Wetton “Rendezvous 6:02”
Asia “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Asia “Roundabout”
UK “Nothing To Lose”
UK “Caesar’s Palace Blues (Live)”
John Wetton “Right Where I Wanted to Be”
Asia “Sole Survivor”
Asia “Midnight Sun”
Icon “Meet Me At Midnight”
Asia “The Heat Goes On”

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.