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Testing For Echo – Episode 47 – Pretty Lucky These Days – Orig. Air Date March 30, 2024

Hi again everyone. Welcome to Episode 47 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. I’m feeling pretty lucky that I have a couple of new songs to play for you today from our friends. In addition to feeling lucky, I’m feeling grateful that

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Away From The Mire Episode 30 – Original Air Date March 25th 2024

Hello and welcome to Episode 30 of Away From The Mire! With it being episode 30 I’ve decide to bust out the time machine and take a trip back 30 years to 1994. A great year for music that saw the loss of a legend, the beginnings of some new scenes, breakthrough albums from some

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Away From The Mire Episode 29 – Original Air Date March 18th 2024

Hi all and welcome to another episode of Away From The Mire. With March being Women’s History Month I thought this would a good opportunity to play some of my favorite female musicians. There is no shortage of great women creating some great rock music and I hope you will enjoy!   1 – Hole

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Testing For Echo – Episode 46 – Let’s Rock – Orig. Air Date March 16, 2024

Hi again everyone. Welcome to Episode 46 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. I’ve noted before that I don’t get too much correspondence for my show and that’s okay with me. I take it to mean that the listeners are happy with

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Away From The Mire Episode 28, Original Air Date March 11th 2024

Hi All and welcome back to another episode of Away From The Mire. This week we take the new Pearl Jam single for a second spin and I share my updated thoughts on it, we spin some 311 in honor of 311 day and share some news from The Tragically Hip as they announce their

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Away From The Mire Episode 27, Original Air Date March 4th

A couple more new songs to play this week as we have new music from Canadian indie rockers Mother Mother, music from the highly anticipated first album by Last Dinner Party from London England and a new song from Kings Of Leon that harkens back to their early grittier work. Starting things off we have

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Testing For Echo – Episode 45 – Feels Like Such a Long Time – Orig. Air Date March 2, 2024

Before we begin this episode I would like to mention with sadness the recent passing of local radio legend Don Roberts. In my mind Don was the finest radio personality this town has ever heard. In fact, it was his show “Musical Memories” on CHSR that first caught my interest of CHSR. He will be

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Away From The Mire Episode 26, Air Date Feb 26 2024

Thanks for checking out the show. We get into some psych country this week with Daniel Donato and New Riders Of The Purple Sage, some local music from Connor Fox as well as the Leftovers out of Sussex and we have a couple covers of some songs made popular by Glen Campbell.   1- Absolute

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Testing For Echo – Episode 44 – You Should Love This – Orig. Air Date February 17, 2024

Hi everyone. I hope that all is well. Episode 44 is up for your listening pleasure. I’m hoping that you love this as much as we do. Let me know. Here we go. Please head down the page to the little arrow to download/listen to the show.  Take good care, Tim “The World of Music,

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Away From The Mire Episode 24 – Original Air Date Feb.12th

Hi All, Thanks for checking out the show. I decided to do an all covers episode this week and I’ve got some great covers lined up for you all that I think you will enjoy!   1 Trans-Canada Highwaymen – Tonight is a wonderful time to fall in love 2 David Byrne – I Wanna

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Away From The Mire Episode 23 – Air Date Feb 5th 2024

Hi all and thanks for supporting local radio and checking out my show! Another great one this week that i’m sure you will enjoy. I’ve got some great tunes and some rumors regarding the new Pearl Jam album, check it out!   1 Local H Another February 2 Heavy Body B 3 Rev Hank Longhorn

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Testing For Echo – Episode 43 – What Do You Think? – Orig. Air Date February 3, 2024

Hello again everyone. I hope that you are doing great. I have another rather eclectic show for you, submitted for your approval. Off we go. Please head down the page to the little arrow to download/listen to the show.  Take good care, Tim “The World of Music, One Song at a Time” Episode Song List

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Away From The Mire Episode 22

Thanks for checking out the show! Hope you’ve got your boogie boots on because this week is chock full of funky jams and instrumental delights. I’ve got music from Maritime jam legends Jimmy Swift band and Grand Theft Bus as well as new music from Connor Fox. I’ve also got some jam bands from across

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Away From The Mire Episode 21

Hello and welcome to another week of Away From The Mire right here on CSHRFM. This weeks episode leans a little heavier and I’ve got some great tunes from local artists as well as some great international acts. I’ve got music from a Fredericton Daughter/Father duo called Zoocreeper that I think you’ll enjoy, an absolute

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Testing For Echo – Episode 42 – Sit back, Relax, and Listen – Orig. Air Date January 20, 2024

Hello again everyone. I hope that you are doing great. I have another rather eclectic show for you, submitted for your approval. Off we go. Please head down the page to the little arrow to download/listen to the show.  Take good care, Tim “The World of Music, One Song at a Time” Episode Song List

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Away From The Mire Episode 20!

Welcome back for another episode of Away From The Mire! 20 episodes, where does the time go!?!? Another wonderful grab bag of tunes spanning multiple genres again this week. I revisit some Fredericton gems of yesteryear, some new music from MGMT and an epic tune from the Grateful Dead. As well, I’ve got some new

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Testing For Echo – Episode 41 – Keeping It Pretty Clean– Orig. Air Date January 6, 2024

Hello again everyone. I’m not sure how to categorize this episode because it’s all over the place. I DO know that there is quite a bit of Canadianity in here. I was just feeling in the mood for some of the best that the old Maple Leaf has to offer. I also really want to

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Testing For Echo – Episode 40 – Keeping It Pretty Clean– Orig. Air Date December 23, 2023

Hello again everyone. I had a bit of a little thing today while doing this show. I had a great older song by a very famous person ready to drop in. I hadn’t listened to the song for a few years so I popped it in and listened. There were a few more bad words

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Testing For Echo – Episode 39 – Many Classics, Bunch of Newer, Business as Usual – Orig. Air Date December 9, 2023

Hello there everyone. I hope that all is well. Again, I apologize for the listeners who have relied on my show links from Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook has blacked out Canadian media sources, including CHSR, so I’ll keep using the Facebook posts to Twitter links to get you here. This is Episode 39 of Testing For

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Testing For Echo – Episode 38 – Mixing It Up – Orig. Air Date November 25, 2023

Hello again everyone. I trust you are well. This is Episode 38 of Testing For Echo on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world. I’m your host Tim Scammell. This episode is all over the place. A little more so than usual I think. I’ve gone wayyy back for some and right up

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Away From The Mire Epiosde 15

Welcome back to another episode of Away From The Mire! Cake – Arco Arena Silverchair – Slave Nirvana – Man Who Sold The World (Live Electric) Colliding Canyons – Dimension Tide Fontaines D.C. – Cello Song The Toadies – Heart Of Glass The Trews – Tired of Waiting (Acoustic Demo) The Zutons – Pressure Point

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Away From The Mire Episode 14

Hello again radio listeners! We have new music this week from Brookside Mall and some tracks from artists playing at this weekend’s Americana Weekend music event! Full track list below, thanks for listening!   1. Brookside Mall – School Tour 2. Clinton Charlton and The Formers – A place to play a song 3. Junkhouse

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