In case you missed the news yesterday, this week all of The AIR Musical Specialty programs will be brand-new. That means that…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.

This week RFC is loaded with local, independent and whatever else music I feel like playing, and it’s filled with gems.

We open with a new track from Saycouth. A Nashville band that comes to us via the Chicago pipeline. “Phantom Love” is their next single, and it will be released Friday.

Speaking of Friday, I mention repeatedly in this week’s show that Bandcamp Friday happens this week. It does not. I didn’t realize that they no longer do Bandcamp Friday the first Friday of every month. The next one is May 2. When you get to the many points in this week’s show where I start going on about how great Bandcamp Friday is, just put your fingers in your ears and go “Lah, Lah, Lah” for a few seconds. It’ll be like it never happened.

We also have a great new song from Ron Sowell (who was in the room when I met Mel) and new tunes from Novelty Island, Sirius Blueray and David Synn, Bryan Ferry with Amelia Barratt, The Darkness, The Heavy Editors, Novo Combo, Jethro Tull, Kinky Friedman and more.

We also mix in a set of live tunes, a set of retro-sounding New Wave-ish music, some Americana and my favorite 22 minute song about driving in Germany.

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

RFC V5 220

hour one
Saycouth “Phantom Love”
Ron Sowell “Everything That Goes Round Comes Round”
Novelty Island “I’m Glad It’s Not Sunny”
Sirius Blueray & David Synn “Your Nirvana”
Bryan Ferry-Amelia Barratt “Big Things”
Dinosaur Burps “Sandwich (Instrumental)”
The Darkness “Don’t Need Sunshine”
The Settlement “Eyes of the World (live)”
Hybrid Soul Project “Sweet Thing (live)”
Blondie “In The Flesh (live)”
George Harrison “Isn’t It A Pity (live)”
Todd Burge “These Extremes”

hour two
The Heavy Editors “Get Out of My Way”
Novo Combo “Another Slow Fade”
Orville Rex“Half a Cup”
The Surfrajettes “Clam Chowder”
The Wipeouters “Ravin’ Surf”
Can “I Want More”
Red Audio “Edger”
Emmalea Deal “The Light”
Shriekback “Nympholept”
Duran Duran “Blame The Machines”
Ollie Wride “Victoria”
Heartworms “Mad Catch”
Buni Muni  “Soup Girl”
Bane Star “Perfectly Designed”

hour three
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Virtue”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “Aurelian”
Kinky Friedman “Kacey Needs A Song”
Sierra Ferrell “Why Haven’t You Loved Me Yet”
Massing “Cam’s Ham”
Union Station “Granite Mills”
Jethro Tull “Curious Ruminant”
Kraftwerk “Autobahn”
Tony Levin “Me and my Axe”

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 new episode of The Swing Shift that celebrates the music of Louis Jordan, half a century after he boogied off this mortal coil. He was one of the most successful songwriters of the Big Band era, and he pioneered smaller combos that directly inspired the creation of Rock and Roll.  We bring you an hour of some of his greatest hits.

Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 169

Louis Jordan

“Caldonia Boogie”
“Is You Is Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby”
“GI Jive”
“Choo Choo Ch’Boogie”
“Buzz Me”
“Open The Door, Richard”
“Saturday Night Fish Fry”
“Happy Birthday Boogie”
“Blue Light Boogie”
“It’s a Great Great Pleasure”
“I Want You to Be My Baby”
“Your Socks Don’t Match”
“It’s So Easy”
“Barnyard Boogie”
“Heed My Warning”
“Push-Ka-Pee She Pie”
“School Days”
“Love You ‘Til Your Money’s Gone Blues”
“Let The Good Times Roll”

 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.