You guys know the drill. Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR. As such, we have new episodes of Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift 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.
While we have some great new local music to share this week, we also have a bit of a cloud hanging over RFC this week. Lynne Sandy, a friend and a Charleston music legend passed away over the weekend, and all of her friends are taking the news pretty hard. This week in our third hour, with many thanks to my friend Mark Wolfe (you may know him as Mark Blackwell these days), we bring you an episode of The Real with Mark and Steven Allen Adams interviewing Lynne from, I think, 2016. She tells some stories of her time as the lead singer of The Defectors, and you’ll also hear some classic Defectors tracks.
The first two hours of our show mixes great new local music from John Radcliff, Deni Bonet, Mediogres, Gardenn and more with some great female-lead bands in honor of Lynne, as well as songs I’d personally discussed with her and a set of tunes that The Defectors covered in their live shows. It’s part tribute to Lynne, part listening party. Along the way I explain some of the connections of the songs and artists to Lynne.
We are all really going to miss her. I hope our hastily-assembled tribute comes close to explaining how special Lynne was.
The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the local and independent artists in this week’s show…
RFC V5 188
hour one
John Radcliff “Chase The Sun”
Deni Bonet “Love Is A Circular Thing”
Brian Eno “We Let It In”
Mediogres “Bad Signal”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Chasing You”
Anti-Nowhere League “Sympathy For The Devil”
Clownhole “Aqua”
Hello June “Honey I Promise”
Nu Mutants “Undertaker”
The Raveonettes “Goo Goo Muck”
Unmanned “Leave That Girl Alone”
Frenchy & The Punk “Hypnotized”
Government Cheese “People Who Died”
Gardenn “Chance”
Poppy “What It Becomes”
hour two
Cherry Poppin’ Daddues “Take It Off Stella”
The Settlement “Blindman Parts 1 & 2”
David Synn “Purple Eclipse”
Dr. Curmudgeon “Pregnant Pause”
Tranvision Vamp “Baby I Don’t Care”
X “Smoke & Fiction”
Romeo void “Never Say Never”
Holly & The Italians “Tell That Girl To Shut Up”
Gang of Four “What We All Want”
The Pretenders “Message of Love”
Elvis Costello “Love For Tender”
Pete Shelley “Homosapien”
hour three
The Real with Mark Wolfe, episode 28, Lynne Sandy
including music by The Defectors.
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 offer up a special new episode of The Swing Shift that offers up double shots of tunes by a variety of Swing artists from all over the last century, starting off with two brand-new tunes from Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.
Check out the playlist…
The Swing Shift 162
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Kings of Swing” “Hey Goombah”
Dutch Swing College Band “Wolverine Blues” “Ice Cream”
Billie Holiday “Swing Brother Swing” “Them There Eyes”
Swiss Dixie Stompers “Black and Blue” “Basin Street Blues”
Oliver Nelson “Soul Street” “Blues at the Five Spot”
Shelly Manne & His Men “Stop, Look and Listen” “Dearly Beloved”
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.
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