We’re doing a special encore day Tuesday on The AIR  so that means we’re going back six years for an early edition of Radio Free Charleston Volume 5. 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.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the day I met my wife, and it was also the day I usually record RFC, so choices had to be made.

I’m always going to choose my wife in a case like this. However, that means that you get a special treat. I went back into the vault and dug out the third episode of RFC Volume 5, which originally ran on The AIR six years ago this week. That was just before the pandemic shutdowns had begun in earnest, but it was also before I started uploading each episode to this blog, so you can listen to them on demand. That means the only way you could listen to this episode would be if you tuned into the RFC Daily feature on The AIR, where it has been played three or four times over the last four years.

Today that changes. I will embed this episode below, and eventually we’ll make all of the episodes of RFC Volume 5 available here.

So…while this week’s show is a rerun, at least it’s not one that’s been worn out with repeated airings.

This particular show was jam-packed with great music from Charleston and the whole world. This episode was rich with the local music archives, but we popped in with one big set of then-new music from legends of the past. Which is now also in our local music archives.

Because this is an encore show and Mel is waiting for me so we can head out, we don’t have the usual links in the playlist this week…

RFCv5003

hour one
Feast of Stephen “Needing Only Me”
Cannon Sodaro Band “Mountaineer”
Spencer Elliott “The Promise”
Peter Murphy “That Scarlett Thing In You”
The Animals “House of the Rising Sun”
Jon Anderson “Twice In A Lifetime”
Three Bodies “Gardens of Hope”
The Who “I’ll Be Back”
Jeff Lynne’s ELO “Down Came The Rain”
Sparks “Check Out Time 11 AM”
Howard Jones “Tin Man Song”
Van Morrison “Fame Will Eat The Soul”

hour two
Gypsy Rhythm “Missing”
Sweet “Tall Girls”
Mark Beckner “Sweet Addiction”
Joseph Hale “Time”
John Lennon “God (early version)”
Gary Numan “Down In The Park (outtake mix)”
Metronomy “Salted Caramel Ice Cream”
John Radcliff “Dreaming”
The Black Keys “Lo_Hi”
The Fools “The Runner”
Robert Palmer “Addicted To Love”
Year Long Disaster “Swan On Black Lake”

hour three
Aaron Fisher and Ghostfleet “Firetrucks”
Transvision Vamp “Veleveteen”
Scrap Iron Pickers “Junkyard Jesus”
YES “Machine Messiah (live)”
Tarja “Spirits of the Sea”
Axis Everything “Undersound”

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  The Swing Shift is an encore of episodes 3 and 4, just to match up with this week’s RFC encore.

 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.