RFC is ALL-NEW As Jon Raider Stages A Rockabilly Invasion In Hour Three

Radio Free Charleston is ALL-NEW as we welcome our first-ever guest programmer for hour three Tuesday 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 we have a show where the first two hours are jam-packed with great new local and indie music, as well as a few surprises, and then for our third hour, I turn over the programming duties to Jon Raider, an old friend who many folks may know as the drummer for Strawfyssh back in the day, and also as the creator and curator of The Scene group at Facebook.

When Jon’s schedule opens up, we hope to welcome him to The AIR to host his own show, but for now he’s going to pop up every few weeks by programming our third hour. This week he’s given us a Rockabilly goldmine, and it’s an absolute treat for your ears.

Before we get there, we have another killer collection of RFC music. Our first hour opens with a new single from GRPPLNG, the power punk group also known as the acclaimed wrestling tag team, The Motor City Machine Guns.  We also have new tracks from David Synn, Stick Men, Jim Lange, Riffstone, The Surfrajettes, Erik Woods, Messer Chups, William Matheny, Matching Outfits, Red Spot Rhythm Section and more.

Two of the artists giving us new tracks have great new videos to go along with them: Stitch Jones and His Bionic Marines and Schells & Vine. Check those out.

The playlist Jon gave us for our third hour is cram-packed full of Rockabilly greatness. 22 songs by 20 artists that will stir your soul and make you want to move your feet and ass…possibly even in that order.  He’s given us classics from the 1950s to modern times and the artists range from legends like Buddy Holly and Carl Perkins to overlooked masters like Thumper Jones and Pat Capocci.

I don’t have links for the artists in the third hour because, let’s face it, not a lot of folks who recorded seven decades ago are all that web-savvy, but you folks who are curious do know how to use the Google, right?

Bringing in a guest programmer is an exciting new experiment for RFC, and if the first one is any indication, it’s a smash hit.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page for the first two hours of the show…

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hour one
GRPPLNG “Sleep”
David Synn “Indulgence of the Flesh”
Stick Men “Thief of the Dice”
Jim Lange “AFI Clip 7”
Riffstone “Mariana”
Tautologic “That’s What I Hear”
Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines “Greatest Day”
Schells & Vine “Free”
The Surfrajettes “Heart of Glass (live)”
best dressed ghost “Peach Melvin”
Guy Parker, Dirt Reynolds, Mark Shambles, Sea Monster, Steve Sleaze “Ace of Spades (live)”
Jerks “Riptide”
Samuel S.C. “Celestial”
Erik Woods “Winter’s Solstice Solace”
Trio “Out In The Streets”

hour two
Messer Chups “Mad Monster Party”
William Matheny “Fairmont Hair”
The Waterboys “The Man With The Wind At His Heels”
Corduroy Brown “Hold The Line (live at the West Edge Factory)”
Sasha Colette & The Magnolias “Sacred Place”
Rocco DeLuca “Nightengale”
Matching Outfits “Leave It”
Red Spot Rhythm Section “Win For Losing”
Feeders “Back To Indiana”
James McCartney “I’ll Say What I Want To”
Billy Strings “Burn The Other End”
The Holler Hounds “Take Your Shot”
June Swoon “Someone Else’s Dream”
Hello June “Faded Blue”

hour three
Guest-programmer: Jon Raider
“Westside At Midnight”
Buddy Holly “I’m Changing All Those Changes”
Roy Hall “Three Alley Cats”
Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars “Havin’ A Ball”
Gene Maltais “The Raging Sea”
Glen Glenn “Everybody’s Movin'”
Thumper Jones “Rock It”
Rockin’ Ryan and The Real Goners “Please Tease Louise”
Hal Harris “Sixteen Chicks”
Sonny Fisher “Rockin’ Daddy”
Lillian Briggs “I Want You To Be My Baby”
The Blasters “No Other Girl”
Sid King & The Five Strings “Sag Drag and Fall”
Eddie Bond “Flip Flop Mama”
Charlie Feathers & His Musical Warriors “The Wild Side of Life”
Jackie Lee Cochran “Ruby Pearl”
Rockin’ Ryan and The Real Goners “Caged Heat”
Rip Carson and the Twilight Trio “I’m Gonna Drink”
Pat Capocci “Slave For The Beat”
Wanda Jackson “Run Devil Run”
Flat Duo Jets “John Law/You Only Live Twice”
Carl Perkins “Jive After Five”

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. 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 get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift, featuring the best Swing Music from the last century!

 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.