This vintage April 2007 episode of Radio Free Charleston features a road trip to Parkersburg, West Virginia. Shot at a "Songpull" event at John Radcliff's house, this episode marked three appearances in a row by Rad, and also featured music from Don Baker, Deron Baker and Josh Buskirk, plus there's a special rendition of the RFC theme song by John Radcliff and Jerry Fugate.
You can read the original production notes below the show, but don't expect all the links to work. You may also note some frustration on my part that we shot and edited the show in 24 hours, but it sat around at the Gazette and didn't get uploaded for over a week. This is a problem that went away when we started uploading the show and embedding it in PopCult-- instead of using the Gazette servers for our show-- with episode 77. Seems like ages ago.
You can read the original production notes below the show, but don't expect all the links to work. You may also note some frustration on my part that we shot and edited the show in 24 hours, but it sat around at the Gazette and didn't get uploaded for over a week. This is a problem that went away when we started uploading the show and embedding it in PopCult-- instead of using the Gazette servers for our show-- with episode 77. Seems like ages ago.
Finally: Radio Free Parkersburg!
April 16, 2007 by rudy panucci
Shot and edited in a record less-than-24-hours, the latest episode of Radio Free Charleston is now online…ten days later.
That doesn’t make it any less cool, though. This show is a departure in many ways. First, it’s a road trip show. Melanie Larch and I drove to Parkersburg and taped at John Radcliff’s house. John was hosting a Songpull event, where songwriters gather and perform tunes that they’ve penned within 30 days of that event. Visit the Songpull.com website to see and hear the results of these songwriting exercises held all around the country. Later this week the Parkersburg Songpull tunes should be online. We’ll post an update when they are.
Aside from the brand-spankin’ new Songpull tunes, we managed to finagle some older songs out of the participants, and that’s what you get to hear on the new RFC. We have great songs from brothers Don and Daron Baker. DonBaker is from Belpre Ohio. His brother Daron is from Columbus, and performs with the band Rustic Bucket. Each Baker boy gives us a terrific song. We’ll have more from them on future episodes of RFC, and special apologies to Daron, whose name we mis-spell throughout the show. Them’s the hazards of editing a show in 24 hours.
