Really, it’s not a big deal. I mean, this is the second time we’ve hit episode 200, and if you add up all the previous incarnations of the show and toss in The RFC MINI SHOW and RFC International, we’ve done around 775 episodes.

Still, a new week brings a new RFC on The AIR.  And this week  Radio Free Charleston presents three hours of listening enjoyment 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.

To show you how much this isn’t really a big deal, the cool graphics accompanying our post this week are just recycled from episode 200 of our video show. Waste not, want not, you know.

We try to keep things normal in our first hour. We open with a new live track from Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates.  Then we bring you new tracks by Kate Fagan, Corduroy Brown, Skafish, The Surfrajettes and Paul Calicoat. You’ll read more about Paul’s new song, and see a video and link to the cool place from whence it originated on Thursday.

We also sneak in alternate versions of songs by Sierra Ferrell and King Crimson (back-to-back, no less!).  And then we dive into the archives for our video shows.

I had the idea to bring you the songs from the 200th video episode of the show, and once I started, I decided to keep going, filling up the second and third hour with songs recorded for several subsequent episodes, and taking up most of the third hour this week with a documentary about the band 4TET, which expanded to nine members so they could do a mini tour playing the classic Bitches Brew album by Miles Davis.

I feel it sort of shows off the variety of music that we’ve brought you over the last three and a half decades.

Check out the playlist below. Where possible, live links will take you to the artist’s pages.

RFC V5 200

hour one
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Restless Spirit (live)”
Kate Fagan “2 Good 2 B True”
Corduroy Brown “Cross Your Mind (live at Blenko)”
Sierra Ferrell“Dollar Bill Bar (alternate version)”
King Crimson “Starless (Elemental Mix)”
Orville Rex “Lightning Bolt Chewing Gum”
Rat Ship “When Our Blood Connects In The Cracks Of The Floorboards”
The Surfrajettes “Chiffon Daydreams”
Skafish “I’m Not Your Stepping Stone”
Government Cheese “American Band”
Frenchy & The Punk “Hypnotized”
Paul Calicoat “Only Up (Election Day)”

hour two
Farnsworth “20 Days”
The Laser Beams “Shut Up, I Love You”
HARRAH “Shingles And Tar”
The Velvet Brothers “All I Know”
WATT 4 “I Don’t Deserve You”
WATT 4 “Bad Situation”
Super Heavy Duty “Here I Be”
The Possum Kingdom Ramblers “Godzilla”
HARRAH “Coda (I Gotta Get Outta Here)”
Elephant In The Room “Running From The Stars”
Sasha Colette “You Had Me”
Tyler Childers “Harlan Road”
Anthony Hoey “Parasites”

hour three

Diablo Blues Band “Diablo Blues”
The Company Stores “Billie Jean”
Chad Foss & Sean Sydnor “Where I’m Going”
4TET and More “The Bitches Brew Project Documentary”

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 continue our special Halloween Programming until 8 PM, then we pick it up again Wednesday afternoon.