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Random Play features rare and not-so-rare recordings mixed with Doug's stories and observations about the music, the music business and the men and women who make the music.
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Random play is now on CHLY 101.7 FM in Nanaimo, Friday Nights from 8 to 10 (Pacific Time)
in Tofino/Ucluelet at TUFF CITY RADIO or, on your Radio Player APP every Saturday from 1 to 3 (Pacific Time)
in Salmon Arm on CKVS (The Voice of Shuswap Community Radio) 93.7 FM, every Saturday from 4 to 6 (Pacific Time)
in Kamloops at CFBX 92.5 at Thompson Rivers University every Sunday from 5 to 7 (Pacific Time) streaming at theex.ca
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My Eyes - Laurie Anderson
Speak Low - Nils Landgren
Toloache - Flor de Toloache
I've Got A Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens
A Pirate Looks At Forty - Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds
Let's Get It On - Edgar Winter's White Trash
The Fire - The Avett Brothers
The Root - Magna Carda
Memories - Leonard Sumner
Watching The River Run - Loggins and Messina
Standing at the Burying Ground - Mississippi Fred McDowell
Me and Bobby McGee - Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson
Get In The Wind - New Grass Revival
Illinois River - John Hartford
Shiver Me Timbers - Tom Waits
Big Electric Cat - Adrian Belew
We Are The Robots - Kraftwerk
Everybody Wants A Cowboy - NRBQ & Skeeter Davis
Summer Breeze - George Benson & Al Jarreau
Wild & Wicked Ways - Leon Redbone
Sleepless - Melo Makes Music
My Feet Can't Fail Me Now - Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Castle In Spain - Buster Poindexter
ABC Boogie - Bill Haley
Ain't That So - Roxy Music
Son of Man - Graham Gouldman & Kevin Godley
John Handy - Tony Rice
Along the Way - Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
Honky Tonk Song - Webb Pierce
Ghost Riders In The Sky - Sons of the Pioneers
Columbus Stockade Blues - Bill Bourne & the Free Radio Band
It Ain't My Baby - Ruby Grayzell
I'm Obscured - Dennis Ellsworth & Kinley Dowling
A Lua do Amazonia - Orville Johnson
Talking to Myself - Frank Hoorn
Coming Back Home - Garrett, Sahm, Taylor
Hey Buddy - The Cold Club
Caledonia - James Cotton
Silver Blue - JD Souther
Unicorns - June Tabor & Martin Simpson
Aghrab - Moody Amiri
You Win Again - George Jones
It Ain't Me Babe - Band of Skulls
Sure As I'm Sittin Here - John Hiatt
Jumpin with Symphony Sid - Van Morrison w Georgie Fame
Bala Nak - Mynta
Footsteps Fall - Eddie Reader
Running Back - Thin Lizzy
Love the One You're With - Mothers Finest
Pacing the Cage - Bruce Cockburn
3 x 7 - Doc & Merle Watson
Muddy Water Mississippi Delta Home - Tony Rice, Bill Emerson, Jerry Douglas
Wonderful Woman - Chuck Berry
River - 100 Mile House
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - BB King
Ain't Misbehavin' - Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie
On The Road - Max Webster
Howlin' At The Moon - Hank Williams
FingerPainting - V.S.O.P. Quintette
Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath
Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell
Drivin' Thunder - Stephen Stills
Rodney's Glory - Kris Drever
Alright I'm Wrong - Flaco Jiminez
Mexican Blackbird - ZZ Top
Draggin The Line - Tommy James
Folks Back Home - Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Las Simples Cosas - Chavela Vargas
You Ain't Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan
The Best Of My Love - The Eagles
I'm Lucky - Joan Armatrading
Hocus Pocus - Focus
So Straight and Slow - Robin Holcomb
No Judges - Kim Richey
A Big Truck Bought It - Ronny Cox
Busted - John Scofield
Dead Flowers - Jerry Lee Lewis with Mick Jagger
Something Stupid - The Mavericks with Trisha Yearwood
Summer Wages - Tony Rice
Goodnight Irene - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Angeline - John Martyn
One Minute Song - Dean Jones
When You're Hot You're Hot - Jerry Reed
Summer - War
Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
Can't Find My Way Home - Ellen McIlwaine
Born Under A Bad Sign - Ellen McIlwaine
MockingBird - Ellen McIlwaine
I Like To Slide - Doug Cox with - Ellen McIlwaine
Lean on Me - Ellen McIlwaine
Standing on Shakey Ground - Ellen McIlwaine
Egyptian Blues - Ellen McIlwaine
Bled My Blood - Leonard Sumner
Rattlin' Bones - Dirt Road Opera
No Regrets - Tom Jackson
Careful & Kind - PK Tessman
The World Is A Tangle - Jontavious Willis
Revival - Bettysoo
Breathless - William Prince
I Need Water - Colin Linden
Hangman - Angel Forrest
Satellite Man - Satellite & The Harpoonist
Decolonize Yourself - David Vest
Read Camera - Corwin Fox
Treehouse - Helen Austin
Take Me To The River - Ellen McIlwaine
Like Crying - Fleetwood Mac
Louis Riel - The Formerly Brothers
Don't Smoke In Bed - Nina Simone
Let It Simmer - Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
Flying Fox - Ivan Rosenberg
Easy - Patrick Godfery
Spiral - Giuseppi Logan
Four Strong Winds - Allison Krauss, Tony Rice
The Sunday Blues - Mark Crissinger
New Country - Jean Luc Ponty
Ana Wa Habibi - Gordon Grdina's Haram
Los Ojos De Pancha - Los Lobos
Fan It - Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel
A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley
Guitar Shop - Jeff Beck
No Name Girl - John Prine
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Edward (TAT) Tatoosh
Swingin' On The Strings - Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Dance In The Sunshine - Wu Man and Son de San Diego
The Koln Concert Part 2- Keith Jarrett
Many A Fine Lady - Townes Van Zandt
You Never Even Call Me By My Name - Steve Goodman
Oye, Isabel - The Iguanas
I Got Rhythm - Ethal Waters
Roll Call - NRBQ