Despite the best efforts of your humble blogger, Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR  but with only a new episode of Radio Free Charleston. I’ll tell you what happend to The Swing Shift below. 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 our all-new three-hour Radio Free Charleston is loaded with great new music from old friends and new favorites, and our final our takes a deep dive into the RFC Archives with more cool live performances.

We open the show with new music from A Tale of Two. This Nashville-based Americana duo performed last week at Folklore Music Exchange, and Mel and went and had a blast.  The duo consists of Aaron Lessard and Stephanie Adlington, and quite some time ago, Mel and Stephanie performed together with the West Virginia Symphony.  So it was a great reunion and an evening of wonderful, atmospheric original music. This was our first time at Folklore, and it will not be our last. In addition to opening the show, we play another song by the band in our second hour.

Our show is packed full of new music from Speedsuit, Novelty Island, Erik Woods, The Settlement, Byzantine, Tyler Childers and more.

We also have some great local and indie tracks from the vault, as well as, from deep, deep in the vault, a third hour that includes four live songs by The Defectors (you heard them already if you watched our Sunday Evening Video two days ago) and eight live songs by Go Van Gogh. The Go Van Gogh tracks date back to 1990, at the Levee, and the set ends with a Rutles cover, so  you know it’s extra special.

Part of the reason we’re playing the Defectors’ songs is to observe the first anniversary of the passing of Lynne Sandy, their lead singer.  Coincidentally, it’s been around eight years since we lost my friend, Johnny Rock, the drummer for Go Van Gogh, and someone who worshipped The Defectors. I thought it’d be nice to let their bands finally play on a double bill.

Even though I forgot to mention it in the show this week, links below will take you to a website for the artist, where available. Check out this impressive playlist…

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hour one
A Tale of Two “Renegade”
Novelty Island “Northern Nowhere”
Matching Outfits “Everybody Drives”
Erik Woods “My Turtle”
Masser Chups “Insomnia of the Mummies”
Corduroy Brown “4th Avenue”
Speedsuit “Paroled”
Guitarmy of One “Kolchak Meets the Sea Mobster”
Byzantine “Riddance (Instrumental Version)”
Karma To Burn “Nineteen”
Red Audio “Robotomy”
Be Bop Deluxe “Sleep That Burns”
The Settlement “Rainbow”

hour two
Tyler Childers “Bitin’ List”
Joy Viver “Precious Stones”
June Swoon “What Ever After”
M Robin Scott “God Knows Why”
A Tale of Two “Once Upon A Summer’s Day”
Brian Diller “Drive”
Sheldon Vance “Tonight We Sing”
The M.F.B. “Karaoke Casualty”
Frank Zappa “Let Me Take You To The Beach”
Tony Levin “Uncle Funkster”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Voicemail (live)”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Summer Sweat” “Larry Sanders”

hour three
Captain Beefheart “Big Eyed Beans From Venus”
The Defectors (live at the Mound in 1983) “I Want Candy,” “Take It All,” “Los Angeles” and “Easy Target.”
Go Van Gogh (Live at The Levee in 1990) “Don’t Leave Me Alone,” “Be My River,” “Da Da Da, I Love You,” “Ballet Dancer,” “Nothing As Strong As Love,” “I Fall Down,” “Born Too Late,” “Goose Step Mama”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “I Wanna Leave”

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 planned to offer up a new episode of The Swing Shift but after recording and editing the show, technology failed us, and the file became corrupted. I will have to rebuild it from scratch. I still have all the parts, but I did not have time to reconstruct it, so you’ll have to wait until next week. In the meantime, I’ll schedule encores of some classic episodes into the timeslot today.

 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.