We have a special bonus edition of STUFF TO DO this week.

Today we’re going to cover The Celtic Calling, then tomorrow we’ll cover everything else. The 7th Celtic Calling Gathering will take place downtown and around Charleston WV between March 1st-5th 2023.

This celebration of all things Celtic has become an annual tradition here in Charleston. If you can come out to enjoy this immersion into Celtic culture.

Many of the events are free, and it’s a way better way to celebrate the home countries of many Appalachians than green beer and leprechauns.

Here’s The Schedule:

Wednesday, March 1

9 AM to 4 PM: Children’s Craft and Story Book Activities – 4th Floor, Kanawha County Public Library, 123 Capitol Street – FREE

6 PM to 8 PM: Acoustic Music Jam Session/Jam – The Bears Den, 405 Capitol Street – FREE

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM: Paint a Highlander Cow in honor of Celtic Calling- Buffalo Wild Wings, 2501, Mountaineer Boulevard. Sign up 304 343 4325 – $35 a Canvas

Thursday, March 2nd

9 AM to 4 PM: Children’s Craft and Story Book Activities – 4th Floor, Kanawha County Public Library, 123 Capitol Street – FREE

5 PM to 7 PM: ‘Swingstein and Robin’ – celtic, jazz, swing, helping hour.’ – The Empty Glasses, 410 Elizabeth St. – FREE

7 30 PM: Film – North Circular – Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF, 230 Capitol Street — Admission – $10 Adults, $5 Students

Friday, March 3rd

9 AM to 4 PM: Children’s Craft and Story Book Activities – 4th Floor, Kanawha County Public Library, 123 Capitol Street – FREE

6 PM to 10 PM: Beni Kedem Highlanders Tartan Ball 2023, Bedi Kedem Temple, 100 Quarrier St, Charleston, WV 25301. Admission – $50

7 PM to 9:30 PM: Ceili/Ceilidh or ‘Square Dance’ – Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall, in rear of Church, 1009 Virginia Street East, or enter adjacent Parking from Kanawha Boulevard – Admission – $5-10; Children under 10 FREE

7:30 PM to 9:30 PM: Dave Haas and Friends – Taylor Books, 226 Capitol Street, Charleston, WV 25301 – FREE

9 PM to Midnight: Celtic Calling w The Company Stores & The Mud Larks. Rock City Cake Company, 205 Capitol Street– Admission – $15

Saturday March 4th

9 AM: Gathering and Friends of Spring Hill Cemetery Park and Arboretum

Downtown Charleston Venues: All Events FREE unless indicated.

4 PM: Capitol Street Celtic Calling PARADE- Lee Street Triangle to Kanawha Blvd – Pipe Bands, Dancers, Loch Ness Monster, St Patrick, Unicorns, Clans

10 AM to 3:45 PM: Celtic Village- City Center at Slack Plaza, 169, Summers Street. including Clan Tents, Craft Vendors, Food Trucks Children’s Crafts and Games, Jacobite Re-enactors, Dog Show. Music and Dance on stage: Kinnfolk (Va) , Mary-Grace Autumn Lee – Hammered Dulcimer (Pa) , Kanawha Valley Pipes And Drums, Lincoln County Cloggers, Savanna Brown Scottish Dancer, (schedule TBA)

7:30 PM: FOOTMAD Presents: The Tannahill Weavers – Scotland’s finest in Concert. Capitol Theater, Resurrection Church., Ticket information: FOOTMAD.org or Info: 304-729-4382

All Day at Kanawha County Public Library: 123 Capitol Street.
Sheep, Limericks Weavers, Dance and more Full schedule HERE.

Taylor’s Book and Coffee Shop / Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF:

1 PM: George Daugherty Tall Stories Competition, with emcee, Champion Liar Pete Kosky, Registration from 12:30 PM.
2 PM: Film – ‘North Circular’ – Admission – $9 Adults, $5 Students
7:30 to 9:30 PM : Tim and Maggie – Music

4:30 PM to 9:30 PM: Top of the Town Pub Crawl – Live Music, Prizes

Father Son and Friends – Sam’s Uptown Cafe, 28 Capitol Street – $5
The Charleston Rogues – The Blue Parrot, 14 ½ Capitol Street – $5
DJ Matt Murphy – Bar 101
Mountain State Distillery – Acoustic Music Session

Late Night

10 PM: Father Son & Friends @ Sam’s Uptown Cafe—Late Night – Sam’s Uptown Cafe, 28 Capitol Street – $5
10 PM: Celtic Music Session – Adelphia Sports Bar, 218 Capitol St. -FREE

Sunday March 5th

11 AM: Kirkin of the Tartans, Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, 1009 Virginia Street East

11:30 AM to 2 PM.: Celtic Brunch – Sam’s Uptown Cafe, 28 Capitol Street

2 PM: Jenny and Jim, St Albans Scottish Fiddle Orchestra , West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, Town Center Mall

2 PM: Team Irish Road Bowling at Kanawha State Forest – Registration from

1:30 PM- Kanawha State Forest – FREE

4 PM: Celtic Readers Theatre–5 plays , Stage Readings of 5 Top Playwright Competition Entries – The Empty Glass, 410 Elizabeth St. Admission – $5

Your humble blogger/radio host is a little hampered by MG again this week on The AIR  as we premiere another mostly-local and partly-new episode of Radio Free Charleston. 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 elsewhere on this page.

We’ve created another new/old hybrid for you this week that you can hear at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday. The first hour is filled with new, local and independent music. Hours two and three bring you a vintage episode of RFC Volume Four, from 2016, and it’s loaded with goodies.  Live links in the playlist are sparse this week.

Our first hour is all-new. We open it with new music from Corduroy Brown, and continue on with new or newish stuff from Andy Prieboy, Jim Lange, Logical Fleadh, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rick Wakeman, The Church, Depeche Mode and more.

For our second and third hours I once again went back and found an early episode of Radio Free Charleston International from 2016. This show hasn’t been heard for over six years, and I didn’t want to let it languish any longer.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store (live links take you to the artist’s pages)…

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hour one
Corduroy Brown “Headstones”
Andy Prieboy “Blackboard Sky (live)”
Lee Press-on “I’m So Happy”
Jim Lange “Nobody’s Home (voice and guitar)”
Blue Twisted Steel “Intro/Outro”
Logical Fleadh “The Ballad of Saint James”
John Bunkley “Sunshine and Chocolate”
Mark Mothersbaugh “Bear Dance”
Rick Wakeman featuring Haley Sanderson “Visitation”
Frenchy And The Punk “If The World Doesn’t End First”
The Church “The Hypnogogue”
Depeche Mode “Ghosts Again”
Tim Booth “All About Time”
Payback’s a Bitch “Soul Dealer (no fade)”

hour two
Rockestra “So Glad To See You Here”
The Lennon/Claypool Delirium “Boomerang Baby”
James McCartney “Wisteria”
thenewnotwo “Wide Awake”
Julian Lennon “How Many Times”
Midge Ure “Day After Day”
Toyah Wilcox “Out Of The Blue”
Skillet “Burn It Down”
Big Audio Dynamite “Psycho Wing”
Shakespear’s Sister “Hello (Turn Your Radio On)”
Peter Garrett “I’d Do It Again”
Oingo Boingo “Helpless”
Lene Lovich “Savages”

hour three
George Harrison “Shanghai Surprise”
Oktopus “World’s Apart”
Frank Zappa “You Are What You Is”
Eskobar “Rocketship”
MaidaVale “The Greatest Story Ever Told”
They Might Be Giants “Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind”
Owl City “The Bird and The Worm”
Dalek I Love You “Horrorscope”
The Descendants “Spineless and Scarlet Red”Zodiac “Down”
The Misfits “Nightmare on Elm Street”
Ultravox “Perfecting the Art of Common Ground”

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,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different 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.

Then at 1 PM we have MIRRORBALL, followed at 2 PM by Curtain Call. At 3 PM two great recent episodes of The Swing Shift arrive.

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM, Friday at 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.

This week your PopCulteer brings you a doodle done while he was on hold with a soulless corporation. It’s a freehanded attempt at drawing one of the towers of the Hilliard Apartment complex in Chicago, near Chinatown. I had a very blurry reference photo up on the computer screen and did this on printer paper using a cheap art marker I got at Five Below.

I switched to a wider marker to do the trees and shading.

The Hilliard Apartments are part of the Hilliard Homes complex, which began life as a more sensible and humane attempt at low-income housing, finished in 1966. The towers were reserved for senior citizens, while nearby half-circular buildings housed heavily-vetted low-income folks. Because the place was so nice it was the only “project” in Chicago that didn’t require a full-time police detail.

The buildings are on the historical register and were refurbished and repurposed for mixed-income use less than twenty years ago. Best of all, aside from looking really cool, this tower is practically next door to a White Castle (and two blocks from Chess Records).

After scanning, I had to squoosh the drawing a bit to fit it into the space above, but you can see the original aspect ratio at the link below.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a recent episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a recent edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM.

At 8 PM you can hear part one of David Mitchell’s history of British comedy on an encore episode of Comedy Vault. Part two will debut Wednesday night.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of Curtain Call, beginning with several salutes to Stephen Sondheim so that you can hear selections from A Little Night Music, which opened on Broadway fifty years ago last Saturday.

Above you see George Harrison, live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992.  This was his final full-length concert, staged as a benefit for the Natural Law Party.  This video is an edit of three amateur, fan-shot videos combined with a bootleg recording of the concert.

I’m running this here because George would have turned 80 yesterday, and as he once sang, “All my friends are pirates!” Let’s observe the day after the anniversary of his birth with a pirate recording of the legend in concert.

George plays guitar and is joined by Mike Campbell (Guitar), Andy Fairweather Low (Guitar), Will Lee (Bass Guitar), Steve Ferrone (Drums), Chuck Leavell (Keyboards), Greg Phillinganes (Keyboards), Ray Cooper (Percussion), Katie Kissoon (Backing Vocal), Tessa Niles (Backing Vocal) and special guests, Ringo Starr, Gary Moore, Joe Walsh and Dhani Harrison.

The set list:
“I Want To Tell You”
“Old Brown Shoe”
“Taxman”
Introduction Of The Band
“Give Me Love”
“Something”
“What Is Life”
“Piggies”
“Got My Mind Set On You”
“Cloud Nine”
“Here Comes The Sun”
“My Sweet Lord”
“All Those Years Ago”
“Cheer Down”
“Isn’t It Pity”
“Devil’s Radio”
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps”   (Guitar solo by Gary Moore; Drums by Ringo Starr)
“Roll Over Beethoven”   (Ringo on drums; Guitars by Joe Walsh and Dhani Harrison)

This week we bring you what was, at one time, a “lost” episode of Radio Free Charleston.  After originally debuting in January 2007, and then dropping off the Charleston Gazette servers a few months later, the master version of this show was lost in a hard-drive crash. In 2010, I discovered all the files used to make this show and reconstructed it from scratch, adding a new intro just to be honest about the whole process.

This show feaures Martyranny’s Collective Pulse, The Concept and animation and a short film from Frank Panucci. As noted in the new intro, I mispronounced “Martyranny” all the way through the original taping.

While the show once was lost, the original production notes remained intact, and you can find them HERE.

The PopCulteer
February 24, 2023

We’re already in the last week of February and Friday afternoon we offer up new episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM, Mel Larch uncorks a new MIRRORBALL!  After five consecutive themed episodes, The AIR’s showcase of classic Disco music presents a decidedly random collection songs from the heyday of polyester, gold lamé, mirrored balls and lighted dancefloors. We don’t have a fancy theme this week, just meaty, beaty, funky Disco music.

Check out the playlist…

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The Jacksons “The Life Of The Party”
Stargard “Which Way Is Up?”
Roy Ayers “Running Away”
Brass Construction “Movin'”
Tavares “Don’t Take Away The Music”
Kool & The Gang “Get Down On It”
Barry White “My Sweet Summer Suite”
The Spinners “Working My Way Back To You”
Narada Michael Walden “I Shoulda Loved Ya”
Sylvester “Going Down, Down, Down”
Natalie Cole “Party Lights”
Rhythm Heritage “Gonna Fly Now (Theme from “Rocky”)”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays throughout the following week, Saturday at 9 PM, Sunday at 11 PM, Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM.

At 3 PM, Sydney Fileen graces us with a new mixtape episode of  of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.  This time around, Sydney brings you an uninterrupted sampling of the recently-released boxed set, Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue-Progressive Sounds In Uk Alternative Music 1979-89.  Steven Wilson is a musician, producer and acclaimed re-release remixer who has worked with King Crimson, YES, Ultravox and many others.  Though Wilson is usually associated with progressive rock, he grew up on the New Wave era and Intrigue is a collection of some great music from the New Wave era, with a focus on deep album cuts and b-sides.

Check out this intriguing playlist…

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Wire “I Should Have Known Better”
Gang of Four “Contract”
The Associates “White Car In Germany”
Cocteau Twins “Donimo”
Dalis Car “Dalis Car”
Thomas Dolby “Airwaves”
Cardiacs “R.E.S.”
No-Man “Night Sky, Sweet Earth”
Art Nouveau “Enemies”
New Musik “They All Run After The Carviing Knife”
Magazine “Back To Nature”
Slab “Gutter Busting”
Echo and The Bunnymen “All My Colours”
Joy Division “The Eternal”
Kate Bush “Waking The Witch”
The Sisters of Mercy “Corrosion”
XTC “Complicated Game”
This Heat “Health and Efficiency”
The The “Good Morning, Beautiful”
Momus “Murderers, The Hope Of Women”
Kitchens of Distinction “The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule”
The Stranglers “The Raven”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s what’s new on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back for our regular features every day.

You should know the drill by now.  There’s plenty of STUFF TO DO in Charleston and all over The Mountain State this weekend, so let’s just soak in this partial list of suggestions.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM. Friday it’s Jeremiah Hatfield. Saturday Sandy Sowell and Gerry Collyard entertain the crowd at Charleston’s beloved Bookstore/Coffee Shop/Art Gallery.

Also Saturday, at 6 PM, Taylor Books hosts the release party for Kurt Discovers the Orchestra, written by Tom Beal and illustrated by Elea Paybins. An ensemble representing the West Virginia Youth Symphony will perform at 6:00 PM,  followed by a book reading at 6:30. Coloring pages will be available for the children. Kurt, who is physically challenged, discovers the wonders of the orchestra and uses that knowledge and emotion to unlock the wonders and strength within himself.

Tom Beal studied music at Southern Methodist University, earning a degree in French Horn performance, and attended graduate school at the New England Conservatory of Music. He is currently a member of the West Virginia Symphony and a Board member of the West Virginia Youth Symphony.  Elea Paybins is a West Virginian who has had a lifelong love of the arts. While pursuing a BFA in painting and a minor in Japanese at Marshall University, she illustrated Tom Beal’s award-winning Bara Seal and Emily, Too.

The Empty Glass has some great stuff through the week to tell you about.  Thursday from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, Swingstein and Robin play fiddle and piano and sing swing and early jazz standards. Each week they donate their tips to a local nonprofit (as you’ll see below, this week it’s a really good cause).  Thursday evening The 11:11 take the stage at the Glass from 10 PM to midnight. Friday from 5 PM to 8 PM Timmy “Courts and Friends hold down the fort at the Glass.  Sunday it’s Empty Glass Got Talent at 10 PM. Next week they’ll have an open mic Monday night, and Songwriter Showcase on Tuesday. Other shows that have graphics are listed among the images below.

There’s great theatre happening on Charleston’s West Side and in Saint Albans. You’ll find details below.

Please remember that the pandemic is not over yet. In fact, it’s sort of surging again. Many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out.

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the rest of this week, roughly in order.

THURSDAY

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Wednesday afternoon The AIR brings you a special new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast.  You can tune in at the website, or if you’re on a laptop or desktop, you could just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM Beatles Blast presents part two of our crossover with Nigel Pye’s Psychedelic Shack. Just like on Monday, Nigel and I join forces to bring you an hour of great psychedelic bands covering classic Beatles tunes. There are some really cool and obscure gems here, and it’s been a real kick teaming up with Nigel on this unusual trip.

Check out this playlist…

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Tomorrow “Strawberry Fields”
The Sorrows “We Can Work It Out”
The Young Idea “With A Little Help From My Friends”
The Hi-Fis “Yellow Submarine”
Penny Arcade “The Two Of Us”
The Score “Please Please Me”
Hardin & York “Beatles Medley(Lady Madonna/Norwegian Wood)”
Affinity “I Am The Walrus”
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers “Got To Get You Into My Life”
Jawbone “Across The Universe”
Blonde On Blonde “Eleanor Rigby”
The Hollies “If I Needed Someone”
The Mirage “Tomorrow Never Knows”
Kippington Lodge “In My Life”
The Real McCoy “I Will”
Camel “Magical Mystery Tour”

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM on Curtain Call, Mel Larch pays tribute to Burt Bacharach, who just passed away a couple of weeks ago, by bringing you the 2010 cast recording of the hit Broadway musical he composed with Hal David, Promises, Promises.

Promises Promises, sporting a book by none other than Neil Simon, is based on Billy Wilder’s classic 1960 comedy The Apartment. The story concerns a junior executive at an insurance company who seeks to climb the corporate ladder by allowing his apartment to be used by his married superiors for trysts.

The musical premiered in 1968 on Broadway and has had several memorable revivals around the globe. This week on Curtain Call Mel brings you the 2010 cast recording, featuring Sean Hayes, Kristen Chenowith and Tony Goldwyn.

At the end of the show Mel offers up an extra treat for Bacharach fans. Check out the playlist…

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“Overture” – Promises, Promises Orchestra
“Half as Big as Life” – Sean Hayes
“Grapes of Roth” – Promises, Promises Ensemble
“Upstairs” – Sean Hayes
“You’ll Think of Someone” – Sean Hayes
“It’s Our Little Secret” – Tony Goldwyn
“I Say a Little Prayer” – Promises, Promises Ensemble
“She Likes Basketball”- Sean Hayes
“Knowing When to Leave” – Kristin Chenoweth
“Where Can You Take a Girl?” – Seán Martin Hingston
“Wanting Things” – Tony Goldwyn
“Turkey Lurkey Time” – Promises, Promises Ensemble
“A House Is Not a Home” – Kristin Chenoweth
“A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing” – Sean Hayes
“Whoever You Are, I Love You” – Kristin Chenoweth
“Christmas Day” – Promises, Promises Ensemble
“A House Is Not a Home (Reprise)” – Sean Hayes
“A Young Pretty Girl Like You” – Sean Hayes
“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” – Sean Hayes
“Promises, Promises” – Sean Hayes
“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (Reprise)” – Sean Hayes

“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” – Dionne Warwick

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault begins a four-part trip through the history of British Comedy, presented by David Mitchell (Upstart Crow, Peep Show).  The Comedy Vault can be heard every Wednesday at 11 PM, with the featured episodes replayed the following Monday at 8 PM.

Once again it’s Tuesday on The AIR  and that means it’s time for a new  Radio Free Charleston and a new The Swing Shift! 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.

We have one new hour and two hours of RFC International from 2017 today on Radio Free Charleston this week. Our first hour is mostly new local and indie stuff, with a few notable exceptions. We open with just-released music from Golden, and jump around the globe with our free-format musical grab-bag.

Our second and third hours dig up the corpse of an old Radio Free Charleston International from April, 2017, and it’s a great mix of stuff from all over. The first half (our second hour this week) was all newly-released music back then, so it’s like a bit of a time capsule. That’s a nice wake-up call for folks who didn’t realize that Depeche Mode, Jamiroquai, Body Count, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Chuck Berry all put out new records just six years ago.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store. Live links for the first hour will take you to the artist’s pages so you can find out more about them, buy their music and find out where to see them perform live…

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hour one
Golden “I Want To Run”
ALI3N SUP3R J3SUS  “Memories Lost”
Peter Gabriel “The Court (Dark Side Mix)”
Novelty Island “Day”
Annie Capps “My Father’s House”
Logical Fleadh “Bridgeton Nod”
Andy Prieboy “Psycho Ex (live)”
Corduroy Brown featuring Katherine Allen “Watercolors”
Laibach “Moon, Euphora”
eMolecule “Beyond Belief”
Buni Muni “Pit Bike”
Toyah and Fripp “Slave To The Rhythm”
Payback’s a Bitch “Hell’s Nice This Tiime of Year”
Tony Levin “Break It Down”
Law Biting Citizens “Infection”

hour two -Brand New Music from 2017
Chuck Berry “Big Boys”
Bob Dylan “Stardust”
Jamiroquai “Dr. Buzz”
Mastadon “Roots Remain”
Body Count “This Is Why We Ride”
Blink 182 “Misery”
Goldfrapp “Everything Is Never Enough”
The Blues Swingers “By Friday”
Aimee Mann “Good For Me”
Postmodern Jukebox “Roxanne”
The Jesus and Mary Chain “Los Feliz (Blue and Green)
Depeche Mode “Going Backwards”

hour three
UK “Carry The Cross”
The Beatles “I’m Only Sleeping (Mono)”
The Beach Boys “God Only Knows”
Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers “Who Do You Think I Am”
Delta 88 “Boppin’ Little Witch”
Mike Oldfield “Return To Ommadawn part one”
Todd Rundgren “Bang On The Drum All Day”
The B-52s “Party Out of Bounds”
DEVO “Mechanical Man”

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 3 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different 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 another new episode of The Swing Shift. Every week yours truly strives to bring you the best of over 100 years of Swing Music on one of our most-listened-to programs.

This week it’s a mixtape presentation of early Be-Bop, before it got too far away from its Swing Music roots. These are early recordings that show plenty of Swing influences before the music turned its back on danceability and evolved into Modern Jazz.  These tunes are all back from when Be-Bop was still fun. It’s an interesting glimpse at the transitional phase before Jazz got all serious and scared off its mainstream fans.

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Serge Chaloff “Pumpernickel”
Charlie Parker “Romance Without Finance”
Dexter Gordon “Long Tall Dexter”
Fats Navarro “Hollerin’ and Screamin'”
Allen Eager “Unmediated”
Buddy Johnson “Dee Dee’s Dance”
Milt Jackson “Bubu”
Kai Winding “Always”
Dizzy Gillespie “A Night In Tunisia”
Don Byas “Byas A Drink”
J.J. Johnson “Jay Bird”
Leo Parker “Chase’n Lion”
Stan Getz “Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me”
Roy Porter “Pete’s Beat”
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “Stealin’ Trash”
Morris Lane “Blowin’ For Kicks”
Jimmy Guiffrre “Bop”
Woody Herman “Be-Bop and Roses”
Leester Young “Lester’s B-Bop”

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.

We offer up two new episodes of our AIR Music Specialty shows Monday afternoon as Psychedelic Shack begins a two-part crossover with Beatles Blast, and Herman Linte’s Prognosis presents one of his favorite bands, Camel, live in concert.

Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

On Psychedelic Shack, Nigel Pye invites your PopCulteer to join him in introducing an hour of great psychedelic bands covering classic Beatles tunes. On Wednesday, I return the favor and have Nigel on Beatles Blast to bring you an additional hour of great psychedelic Beatles covers.

We’d been planning this for a while, but with the time difference and technical issues on your humble blogger’s part, we just now managed to pull it off.

But Nigel has put together a killer assortment of songs. Just check out the playlist…

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Spooky Tooth “I Am The Walrus”
Big Jim Sullivan “She’s Leaving Home”
Circus “Norwegian Wood”
Stone The Crows “The Fool On The Hill”
Deep Purple “Help”
Atlantic Bridge “Dear Prudence”
Eyes of Blue “Yesterday”
The Temoloes “Good Day Sunshine”
Rainbow Ffolly “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
Trucial States “Oh Darling”
The Gods “Hey Bulldog”
Freedom “Cry Baby Cry”
Andy Ellison “You Can’t Do That”

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM.

Our afternoon of new programming continues at 3 PM. On a very special Prognosis, Herman Linte presents two full hours of one of his favorte bands, Camel, performing live all over England, back in 1975. Much of this music was released as “A Live Record” back in 1978, but to fill up the show Herman pulled a few of the bonus tracks from the 2003 expanded reissue.

The second hour of the show is comprised of a complete recording of the band’s magnum opus, “The Snow Goose,” recorded at The Royal Albert Hall with The London Symphony Orchestra. 

Check out this playist of classic live Progressive Rock on today’s Prognosis…

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Camel A Live Record
“Unevensong”
“Skylines”
“A Song Within A Song”
“Lunar Sea”
“Raindances”
“Never Let Go”
“Chord Change”
“Ligging At Louie’s”
“Lady Fantasy”
“Snow Goose Intro”
“The Great Marsh”
“Rhayader”
“Rhayader Goes To Town”
“Sanctuary”
“Fritha”
“The Snow Goose”
“Migration”
“Rhayader Alone”
“Flight of The Snow Goose”
“Preparation”
“Dunkirk”
“Epitaph”
“Fritha Alone”
“La Princesse Perdue”
“The Great Marsh (Reprise)”
“The White Rider”

You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon that alternates between Psychedelic Shack and Beatles Blast, to get you ready for part two of our crossover special on Wednesday.