Hey, it’s a three-hour show. You’d be surprised how much you can cram into a three-hour show!
Tuesday means a new RFC on The AIR. And this week Radio Free Charleston presents three fresh hours of listenting 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.
One note this week, we’re having some issues with sticking too many links into one post. I’ve talked to the tech folks and it should be completely resolved next week, but this week we are not linking directly to the artist’s pages from the playlist below. We are able to send you to a few places, but until the issue is fixed, too many links in one post cause them to get corrupted into gobbledy gook.
This week we offer up two hours of new local, independent and alternative music for you, and then we bring you a special mixtape third hour devoted to the genius of WV Native (and inductee into the WVMHOF), the late Bill Withers.
After opening our first hour with a newly-released track from Brian Diller’s vault, we plug a lot of Halloween shows in our first hour…not just in WV, but also in Chicago and Louisville. The RFC reach is international, you know.
The Chicago shows include a cabaret this Sunday featuring Sideshow Villains, who we first told you about last year. Sideshow Villains’ ‘Deviant Cabaret‘ at Alhambra Palace Chicago happens on Sun, Oct 27. Maybe one of these days we’ll be in Chicago when they put on one of their cool shows. The other Chicago show is an album reissue show for McLuhans rare 1972 debut (and sole) release, Anomoly. This band is still performing, and they’ll be at the Montrose Saloon on Wednesday, October 30, to celebrate the vinyl re-release of this lost classic of American progressive rock.
Our second hour is an exquistely moody collection of tunes that might put you in the Halloween spirit, but which, honestly, weren’t even trying.
And our third hour is a mixtape of some of the best music from the legendary Bill Withers. We lost West Virginia Music Hall of Famer, Bill Withers in April, 2020 as the Beckley native succumbed to heart disease at the age of 81. His genuine, everyman soul music touched millions, and he never forgot his roots, returning to West Virgina many times to perform, visit family and mentor young musicians. Even just meeting him fleetingly made a huge impression. He was a great man, and an amazing singer and songwriter.
We paid tribute to him when he passed, but it’s just not enough to eulogize the man. We plan to continue bringing his music to new audiences, and this week’s third hour is just the start.
As I mentioned, due to technical issues that are above my paygrade, there are no links in the playlist this week, but it’s still a handy way to keep track of what you’re hearing.
RFC V5 199
hour one
Brian Diller “Sooner or Later”
Golden “Impossible”
Jerks “OK New Wave”
Mediogres “In The Waste”
Crown The Witch “Deathstar”
Dinosaur Burps “Driftwood”
Sideshow Villains “Monsters”
MCLUHAN “Spiders In The Basement”
The Settlement “Rainbow (Live at Martin’s Downtown)”
Fletcher’s Grove “Mourning Mountaineers (Creek’s Gonna Rise)”
hour two
Jerry Cantrell “I Want Blood”
Dream Theater “Night Terror”
David Synn “Swollen Head”
Propaganda “Dystopian Waltz”
Science of the Mind “Son of Sam”
Masser Chups “The Souvenir of the Witch”
Soul Trash “Now What Am I Going To Do”
Emmaline “Strike”
Concrete Blonde “Mojave”
Ann Magnuson “Sex With The Devil”
Hello June “23”
DEVO “Huboon Stomp”
hour three
Bill Withers
Interview from “Soul Live”
“I’m Her Daddy (live)”
“Grandma’s Hands (live)”
“Ain’t No Sunshine”
“Another Day To Run”
“Harlem”
“Lovely Day”
“Just The Two of Us (with Grover Washington Jr)”
“Use Me”
“Grits Ain’st Groceries (live)”
“Who Is He (And What Is He To You)”
“Lonely Town, Lonely Street”
“Let Me In Your Life”
“Lean On Me”
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 give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.
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.
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