Both of The AIR Music Specialty programs will be brand-new Tuesday, which is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  Things are a little different but we still 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 Radio Free Charleston combines a mixtape of recent new tunes with a newly-exhumed episode of Radio Free Charleston International from 2017 and the result is three hours of musical excellenitude.

Allow me to explain something first.  Our first hour mixtape is…me being lazy. It’s my birthday tomorrow, and I wanted to celebrate Slack and The Church of The SubGenius by paying tribute to “Bob” Dobbs, himself, and half-assing the show this week.

Normally I produce shows that are completely-assed.

But this week, since I had to perform reconstructive surgery on The Swing Shift that was supposed to debut last week, and I am, as they say, “plumb tuckered out” after a pre-birthday trip to Cinncinnati (you’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for photos, but you’ll get a tease on Thursday),  I decided to just do a mixtape for the first hour, and revive an old RFCI for hours two and three, and further cementing my laziness, this week there are no links to the artists.

You can find links to their websites by searching this website for their names, and finding previous episodes of the show on which they appear.

The reason for this?  Most weeks, inserting the links into the playlists takes twice as long as writing the accompanying post, and I’d sorta like to get this done before dinner.

Like I said…Hail “Bob” and pass the slack.

Check out this impressive playlist what’s got no links in it…

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hour one
Byzantine “Kobayashi Maru”
The Settlement “Days Go By”
The M.F.B. “Big Booty Judy”
June Swoon “Play Something I Know”
Chuck Biel “Ripstaver”
J. Marinelli “Hillbilly Effigy”
Vinto Van Go “Hot Pants Boots”
Novelty Island “Foam Animals”
Golden “Gotta Let It Go”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Sour”
Novo Combo “Don’t Throw Your Love Away”
Hello June “Sometimes”
Aliza Hava “Let It Roar”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Bucket and the Boot”
Buni Muni “Last Call”

hour two
The Struts “My Machine”
Anderson/Ponty Band “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
Aphrodite’s Child “You Always Stand In My Way”
ELO “Mahattan Rumble”
Snakefinger “Trashing All The Loves of History”
Die Roten Rosen “Zwei Mдdchen Aus Germany”
Dweezil Zappa “Cosmik Debris”
The Beach Boys “Vega-Tables”
Shantih Shantih “Winter in September”
Forbidden Planet “Hands Around The Throat”
Gentle Giant “The River”
Neil “My White Bicycle”
Peter Gabriel “Down The Dolce Vita”
Kate Bush “Get Out Of My House”

hour three
Agent Orange “Tearing Me Apart”
Jellyfish “The Ghost at Number One”
Klaatu “Long Live Politzania”
Jean-Michael Jarre with John Carpenter “A Question of Blood”
John Foxx “Running Across Thin Ice”
Roger Daltrey “Bitter and Twisted”
Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Rocky George “The Trooper”
Killing Joke “Euphonia”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins “Heart Attack and Vine”
Boomtown Rats “Rat Trap”
Tanita Tikarim “Gris Gris Tails”

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 was supposed to be here last week, but the project file got corrupted before it was rendered, so I had to rebuild it from scratch.

This episode opens with Grafton native, Stephanie Adlington, whom you heard last week as half of A Tale of Two on Radio Free Charleston, and inspired by her tune, I devoted the entire show to the intersection of Blues and Swing Music.

You wouldn’t have Swing without The Blues, and this collection of songs proves it.

And it Swings, big time. Check out the playlist…

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Stephanie Adlington “Bootlegger’s Blues”
Glenn Miller “St. Louis Blues March”
Bob Crosby “Honky Tonk Train Blues”
The Pasedena Swing Orchestra “Vo Do Deo Blues”
Squirrel Nut Zippers “St. Louis Cemetary Blues”
Royal Crown Revue “The Walkin’ Blues”
Stan Kenton ” Gotta Right to Sing the Blues”
Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchesta “Roll Out of This Hole”
Big Papa & The TCB “California Blues”
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald “Learnin’ The Blues”
Swing Republic “Searchin’ The Desert For The Blues”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Beggar’s Blues”
Lester Young “D.B. Blues”
Lady J And her Bada Bing Band “Believe Me When I Lie”

 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.