It’s a weird and trivial milestone week on a partly-new Radio Free Charleston for you today 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 sees episode 221 of Radio Free Charleston: Volume 5, the current weekly three-hour radio version of the show that I’ve been doing since January, 2020. That equals the 221 episodes of Radio Free Charleston: Volume 2, the video version of the show, which is still ongoing, but pretty much on an annual basis these days. Ultimately, it’s not really a big deal, except for the numerologists, but I’m mentioning it here because I forgot to say anything in the show.

Because of real-life intrusions, this week’s show only has one new hour of content, but the second and third hours haven’t been heard by human ears in more than eight years, so it’s cool to revive the third episode of RFC: Volume 4, the old all-localish version of the show.

But our first hour has plenty of cool stuff in it, and by all rights you should be terrifically excited about the whole show.  We have brand-new tunes from Jim Lange, J Marinelli, the Waterboys and The Settlement, plus lots of really cool other stuff.

We also encore some great recent songs and dig into the archives a bit for you.

Hours two and three are like a time capsule of local and regional music from 2016, except that some of the music is older than that.

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

RFC V5 221

hour one
Jim Lange “Think I Like It”
J. Marinelli“Vegatables, Man”
Justin Hayward & Mike Batt “Life In A Northern Town”
Skyflake “Luminescent”
Saycouth “Phantom Love”
The M.F.B. “P H Steve”
Massing“September”
The Settlement “Sweetness (Live at The Foundry)”
Adrian Belew “One of Those Days (live)”
The Waterboys “Everybody Loves Dennis Hopper”
Ann Magnuson “M.K.C.F.”
Clownhole “Get A Grip”

hour two
Tape Age “So Happy”
David Synn “Battle of Anihilation”
John Lancaster “Phantom Moon”
Black Cross Brotherhood “Megido”
Bobflex “I’m Glad You’re Dead”
Lady D “Higher”
Spurgie Hankins Band “Dirty Rule”
Donny Iris “River of Love”
Company Stores “Rise”
The Boatmen “Heartbreak Hangover”
Joe Vallina “Year of the Wicked”
John Radcliff “Hanging On”
Foz Rotten “Funklips”
South Park Enterprise “Next Level”

hour three
Miniature Giant “Wendigo”
The Monsoon Band “Don’t Cry
The Horse Traders “Southbound 65”
Ona “Sleep Rinse Repeat”
Ghosts of Now “Alaska Looks Like Arizona”
Karma To Burn “Waltz of the Playboy Pallbearer”
Granny’s 12 Gauge “Full Speed Ahead”
Hasil Adkins “Roll Roll Train”
The Nanker Phelge “Killer Took A Holiday”
Crack The Sky “Robots For Ronnie”
Hellblinki “Bubbles”
The Jasons “We’re Going To Manhatten”
Joseph Hale “Time”

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.