RFC Recognizes Ten Years of The AIR

Tuesday is always a great day to tune into The AIR  and today we prove it with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston AND a new edition of The Swing Shift, too! 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 open with a full hour of the best local aind independent music that we can get our grubby little fingers on, and then we present two episodes of Radio Free Charleston Voume Four from exactly a decade ago.

But back to that first hour…we open with brand-new music from Samuel S.C. and continue with the exclusive premiere of “Body,” a new song by Bobby Miller and John Radcliff, formerly of the legendary band, Feast of Stephen. We also have a track from Hardy Mums, the new collaborative project of noted producer, Eddie Ashworth.  Not content with that, our first hour is loaded with new tunes from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, Deep Purple, Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines, The Pretty Reckless, J. Marinelli, Magic Sands and The Matt Berry Trio, along with a few gems and stylistic diversions.

Hours two and three, both from July, 2016, bring you local and regional music back from when we were all-local, and only an hour long. We brought you these two shows several months ago, but I brought them back again because tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of The AIR, and these shows are exactly ten years old this week and next.

A special note: One of our Chicago pipeline bands, Kerosene Stars, is crowdfunding their next album. The campaign has 23 days left, but due to a technical SNAFU on my end, I didn’t have access to their songs in the RFC library to include one in this week’s show. I will open our show in two weeks with one of their tunes, but by that point, there will only be nine days left in the campaign, so…go check out their music now HERE, and if you like what you hear, go support the campaign HERE.  Next week’s RFC will be a special anniversary show, or else I’d include them in that show. Go give ’em a listen, they’re great!

In fact, you can here them twice in this great 2022 episode of RFC right here.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page (note that all the links work, even the ones with lines through them. WordPress is being a dick)…

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hour one
Samuel S.C. “I Need A Moment”
John Radcliff and Bobby Miller “Body”
Hardy Mums “Green Boots”
Deep Purple “Guilt Trippin'”
The Pretty Reckless “Dear God”
GRPPLNG “Hovering”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Unraveling”
J. Marinelli “Cubby & The Argonauts”
Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines “Van Man Band”
Magic Sands “Night In The Medina”
Matt Berry Trio “Everything’s Peachy Part 3”
The Charleston Rogues “Cooley’s Reel”
Logical Fleadh “Muirland Measure-Hoop Her and Gird Her”
The Paranoid Style “Tearing The Ticket”
Golden “Gotta Let It Go”

hour two
Superfetch “Popcorn Time (Live)”
Jeff Ellis and 40 Days “South Charleston City Beat Blues”
Jonathan Mason “Ohio Is Killing Me”
Hybrid Soul Project “Hate On Me”
Radarhill & Nick Weckman “Spider Respects Nothing”
HARRAH “Pay The Piper”
Farnsworth “Everything Must Go”
Under Surveillance “99 Reasons”
Todd Burge “Jesus Night Light (Live)”
Michael Cerveris “Tenth Grade”
Larry Groce “When The Mist Clears Away”
The Company Stores “Dear Universe”

hour three
Jonathan Mason  “We Can’t Fix This”
Jeff Ellis and 40 Days  “Nightshift”
Todd Burge  “The Longer”
Radarhill and Nick Weckman  “Petitions”
Mother Nang  “Land of the Free”
Radio Cult   “Hungry Like The Wolf”
William  Matheny  “Don’t Feel Guilty”
Crack The Sky  “Animal Skins”
Scooter Scudieri  “Mother of God”
The Renfields  “Last Man On Earth”
The Big Bad  “Possession”
The Jasons  “Stalk and Slash Summer”
The Nanker Phelge  “Scream”
Qiet “Brush Brush”

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 first of two patriotic episodes of The Swing Shift brings you rare V Disc recordings of Sam Donahue and The Navy Dance Band. V Discs were special recordings made exclusively to be sent to our servicemen overseas during WWII.  The Musicians Unions banned studio recording in the early 1940s over royalty payments and the possibility of live musicians being replaced by recordings (sound familiar?). An exception was made for these recordings which were never intended to be sold domestically.

This week we bring you an hour of Sam Donahue and The Navy Dance Band. Next week will see a collection of V Disc recordings by Captain Glenn Miller and The Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra.

 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.