Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 8, 2025: A Tribute to Doc Watson


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69695.html

Theme: A Tribute to Doc Watson (1923-2012).


Doc Watson
was one of the most influential guitarists and singers of folk and related musical styles of all time. Blind since infancy, Doc was from Deep Gap, North Carolina and began his professional career playing electric guitar in a country and western band in the early 1950s. Doc had a deep repertoire of traditional folk songs and by the 1960s was performing folk music on acoustic guitar and banjo. Doc died in 2012 at age 89.

Doc & Merle Watson- Brown’s Ferry Blues
Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)

Doc & Merle Watson- Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)
Bill Garrett- Winters Night
Seems to Me (Borealis)
Jody Stecher- Way Downtown
Going Up On the Mountain (Acoustic Disc)
Michael Jerome Browne- The Coo Coo
Michael Jerome Browne & The Twin Rivers String Band (Borealis)
Si Kahn- To Hear Doc Watson Play
Thanksgiving (Strictly Country)
Doc Watson- Deep River Blues
Doc Watson (Vanguard)

Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson- Go Dig My Grave
Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson At Folk City (Smithsonian Folkways)

Doc & Merle Watson- Freight Train Boogie
Elementary Doctor Watson (Tomato)
Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith- Freight Train Blues
Storm Coming (Folklore Productions)
Maria Muldaur with Doc & Merle Watson- Honey Babe Blues
Waitress in a Donut Shop (Reprise)
Ian & Sylvia- Handsome Molly
Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)
Tom Paxton- Leaving London
The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Doc & Richard Watson- St. James Infirmary
Third Generation Blues (Sugar Hill)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- St. James Hospital
Heartbeats Accelerating (Private)
Paul Mills- Doc’s Guitar
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis) 
Peter Rowan- Doc Watson Morning
The Old School (Compass)
Rory Block & Lee Berg- Your Long Journey
Woodstock Mountains: More Music from Mud Acres (Rounder)

Doc & Merle Watson- I’m a Stranger Here
Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder)
Happy Traum- Willie Moore
Relax Your Mind (Kicking Mule)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Shady Grove
Voice on the Wind (Rounder)
Jim Ringer- Sittin’ On Top of the World
Any Old Wind That Blows (Philo)
Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Together (Rounder)

Doc & Merle Watson- Along the Road
Watson Country (Flying Fish)
Doc & Merle Watson- Snowbird
Two Days in November (Poppy)

Doc & Merle Watson- Down Yonder
Songs Doc Didn’t Sing (FLI)

Next week: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir.”

--Mike Regenstreif

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 1, 2025: Remembering Jesse Colin Young; April Fools; Day


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69610.html

Themes: Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools’ Day.

Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025)


Jesse Colin Young
– whose real name was Perry Miller and who died at age 83 on March 16 – was a singer and songwriter originally from New York City who was lead singer of The Youngbloods from 1966 to 1971 and who recorded as a solo artist before and after his tenure with The Youngbloods.

Jesse Colin Young- Four in the Morning
The Soul of a City Boy (One Way)

Jesse Colin Young- Same Old Man
The Soul of a City Boy (One Way)
Jesse Colin Young- Rider
Young Blood (Mercury)
Jesse Colin Young- Doc Geiger
Young Blood (Mercury)

The Youngbloods- Get Together
The Youngbloods (RCA)
The Youngbloods- Light Shine
Good and Dusty (Racoon/Warner Bros.)

Jesse Colin Young- California Child
Light Shine (Warner Bros.)
Jesse Colin Young- Songbird
Songbird (Warner Bros.)

Part 2 – April Fools’ Day


Shel Silverstein- Folk Singer’s Blues
Inside Folk Songs (Water)
Stan Rogers- The White Collar Holler
Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)
Bowser & Blue- The Night They Invented Poutine
Crackpots (You Guys Publishing)
Spike Jones & His City Slickers- Yes! We Have No Bananas
Musical Deprecation Revue! The Spike Jones Anthology (Rhino)
Steve Goodman- Vegematic
No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology (Red Pajamas)

Nancy White- Leonard Cohen’s Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In
Momnipotent (The Children’s Group)
Christine Lavin- What Was I Thinking?
Live at the Cactus Café: What Was I Thinking? (Philo)
Grit Laskin- The Photographers
Unabashedly Folk: Songs and Tunes 1979-1985 (Borealis)
Al Mamlet- Five Thousand Years of Folk Music
Bring It On Home Volume 1 (Legacy)
Michael Smith- Dead Egyptian Blues
Love Letter on a Fish (Tales from the Tavern)
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers- King Tut
Red Bird Alert (Rounder)

Dave Van Ronk- Garden State Stomp
Going Back to Brooklyn (Gazell)
Erik Frandsen- I’ve the Blues
Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)
Shelley Posen with Erik Frandsen- It’s for You
Old Loves (Well Done Music)
Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture- Dueling Tubas
In Your Living Room (Capricorn)

John Prine & Iris DeMent- In Spite of Ourselves
In Spite of Ourselves (Oh Boy)

Next week: A Tribute to Doc Watson.

--Mike Regenstreif

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 25, 2025: Songs of Laura Nyro; Bringing It All Back Home Revisited


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69511.html

Themes: Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro (1947-1997); Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited.

Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro (1947-1997)


Laura Nyro – who died of ovarian cancer in 1997 at age 49 – was a singer-songwriter from New York City who made a number of fine albums and whose songs were also done by artists from a variety of genres of music.

Laura Nyro- Eli’s Comin ‘
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (Columbia/Legacy)

Darol Anger & Emy Phelps- Stoney End
Music of Our People (Darol Anger & Emy Phelps)
Laura Love- Stoned Soul Picnic
Fourteen Days (Zoë)
Laura Nyro- Wedding Bell Blues
More Than a New Discovery (Columbia)
David Clayton-Thomas- And When I Die
In Concert: A Musical Biography (Justin Time)

Billy Childs, Esperanza Spalding & Wayne Shorter- Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (Sony Masterworks)
Laura Nyro- Save the Country
New York Tendaberry (Columbia/Legacy)

Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited


Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home was released 60 years ago this week on March 22, 1965. Even before Highway 61 Revisited, which came out later in 1965, Bringing It All Back Home marked Dylan’s first embrace of electric folk rock.

Dave Van Ronk- Subterranean Homesick Blues
To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)
The Flatlanders- She Belongs to Me
Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em)
Ian Hanchet- Maggie’s Farm
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Eliza Gilkyson- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
A Nod to Bob (Red House)
Queens of the Stone Age- Outlaw Blues
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Amnesty International)
Ben Sidran- On the Road Again
Dylan Different (Bonsai)
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band- Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Amnesty International)

Jimmy LaFave- Mr. Tambourine Man
Trail Three (Music Road)
Julie Felix- Gates of Eden
Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan (Remarkable)
The Duhks- It’s All Right, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village (429)
Crowes Pasture- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Edge of America (Crowes Pasture)

An outtake from Bringing It All Back Home became the title song of an album released in 1965 by Joan Baez and one of her signature songs.

Joan Baez- Farewell, Angelina
Farewell, Angelina (Vanguard)

Next week: Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools.

--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 22, 2025


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/69494.html

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Gaenet Rogers- First Day of Spring
Shining Thing (Snow Goose Songs)

Ian Tyson- Springtime
Cowboyography (Stony Plain)
Frida’s Brow- Spring
Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)
Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four- The Blackfly Song
Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Katie Moore- Heart Like a Wheel
Montebello (Katie Moore)
Patti LuPone- Saratoga Summer Song
A Life in Notes (Center Stage)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III- Green Green Rocky Road
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Dave Van Ronk- Somebody Else, Not Me
Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)
Chris Walz- Been All Around This World
All I Got and Gone (Chris Walz Music)
Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me
Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Leonard Cohen- The Old Revolution
Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)
Perla Batalla- Everybody Knows
A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)
NEeMA- Unspoken
Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Kim Beggs- Little Tin Cup
Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

Boreal- Hallelujah
Winterbirds (Boreal)

Manus McGuire- Irish Jig Set
The Copperplate Sessions (Manus McGuire)
La Nef featuring Kate Bevan-Baker- Dark Eyed Sailor
Red Sky at Night (La Nef)
La Bottine Souriante featuring André Marchand- Le rossignol sauvage
Chic & Swell (Mille-Pattes)
La Bottine Souriante featuring Michel Bordeleau- Un coup madame
La Bottine Souriante en Spectacle (Mille-Pattes)

Chris Coole & John Showman- Steamboat Whistle Blues
Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Rose Cousins- Denoument
Conditions of Love Vol. 1 (Nettwerk)

Rhiannon Giddens- Shake Sugaree
Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)


Tim Grimm & The Family Band- Gonna Be Great
A Stranger in This Time (Vault)
Artists for Action- Which Side Are You On? *
Which Side Are You On? – single (Bon Jensen)

*The Artists for Action singers and musicians are, in alphabetical order, Black Umfolosi, Ray Bonneville, Bruce Cockburn, Chris Corrigan, Guy Davis, Ani DiFranco, Maria Dunn, Adam Hill, Bob Jensen, James Keelaghan, Richard Knox, Lucy MacNeil, Tony McManus, Moulettes, Oysterband, Richard Perso, Heather Rankin, Martin Simpson, and Jon Weaver.

Cassie & Maggie- Bow Down
Gold and Coal (Cassie and Maggie)
Rube & Rake- Stephen
Good Time After Bad (LHM)
Rum Ragged- The Road to Lushes Bight (Island Stock)
Gone Jiggin’ (LHM)

The Twangtown Paramours- Stars Without a Heaven
The Wind Will Change Again (Inside Edge)
John McCutcheon- Tikkun Olam
Field of Stars (Appalsongs)
Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024(

Louise Coombe- Brothers in Arms
Paris (Zoe Cat Music)
Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- If I Pass This Way Again
It Ain’t Easy (Flying Fish)

Alice Howe & Freebo- Twilight
Live (Know Howe Music)
Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif & Tom Mitchell (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Time Piece
Tom Mitchell (Philo)
Mike Regenstreif & Lucy Kaplansky (2012)

Lucy Kaplansky- No Place to Fall
The Lucy Story: unreleased and rare tracks, 1976-2023 (Lucyricky)
Stephen Fearing- The Empathist
The Empathist (Ging)
Willie P. Bennett- Music in Your Eyes
Tryin’ to Start Out Clean (Bnatural Music)
The Seldom Scene- White Line
Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sultans of String featuring Shannon Thunderbird- Black Winged Raven
Walking Through the Fire (Sultans of String)
HuDost- Fire of Eden
The Monkey in the Crown (Open Sesame Music)

Billy Novick & Guy Van Duser- Gershwin Medley
The New Pennywhistle Album (Green Linnet)
Antonio Andrade- Loony Tunes Medley: This is It! (Intro)/The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down/Merrily We Roll Along/This is It! (Outro)
Here We Go! (Life Shakes)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 19. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 18, 2025: Canadian Places


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69388.html

Theme: Canadian Places

This show is a celebration of just some of the many places in our country, and a response to the despicable behaviour of the orange felon in regard to Canada. As so many have reiterated, Canada is not for sale and will never be his 51st state. We have our elbows up.

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Shari Ulrich- Canada
Back to Shore (Borealis)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen
- Ontario Moon
Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)
Over the Moon- Old Alberta Moon
Moondancer (Over the Moon)
Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor & Roy Forbes- Saskatoon Moon
Wood River (Coyote)

Orit Shimoni- Winnipeg 
Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni) 
Doug McArthur- The Lunenburg Shift
Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)
Deborah Holland- East Porpoise Bay
I Made It This Far (Deborah Holland)

Oscar Peterson- Place St. Henri
Canadiana Suite (Verve)

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett- Lillooet
Bill Garrett (Borealis)
James Keelaghan- Hope Princeton Road
My Skies (Green Linnet)
Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Calgary Song
Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Mike Regenstreif & April Verch (2025)

April Verch & Cody Walters- Up in the Ottawa Valley
Passages and Pairings (Slab Town)
Kevun Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) photo: Vanessa Burnett

Kevin Head- Saturday Night in South Margarree
Live (Kevin Head Music)
Dave Clarke of Steel Rail & Lucinda Chodan (co-writers of Argyle Street) and Mike Regenstreif (2025)
 
Steel Rail
- Argyle Street
Coming Home (Crossties)

Allison Russell- Montreal
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Vieux Montréal
Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)
Ken Tizzard & Amelia Curran- St. John’s Waltz
A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Booth Street)

Bob Stark- Patterson Creek Bridge
Sculpted Pieces of Love (Bob Stark)
Paul Weber- Ottawa Lament
Ode to Gerry Barber (Paul Weber)
Ray Harris- Pontiac County Blues
Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)
Night Sun- Petawawa River
Drive (Borealis)

Stan Rogers- The Rawdon Hills
Fogarty’s Cove (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle and Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Matapedia
Matapedia (Hannibal)

Mike Regenstreif & Murray McLauchlan on Zoom (2021)

Murray McLauchlan- Out Past the Timberline
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Next week: Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro; Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited.

--Mike Regenstreif

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 11, 2025: Remembering David Johansen; “Hello in There”


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69289.html

Themes: Part 1 – Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025); Part 2 – “Hello in There” and other songs that reference the elderly.

Part 1 – Remembering David Johansen (1950-2025)


David Johansen
, who died on February 28 at age 75, was a singer and actor who first gained fame in the early-1970s as lead singer of the proto-punk glam band, The New York Dolls. In the mid-1980s, he began performing jazz, jump blues and novelty songs as his lounge singer alter-ego Buster Poindexter. And, in the 1990s, he started performing traditional folk and blues and formed a band called David Johansen & The Harry Smiths.

Buster Poindexter- Hot Hot Hot
Buster Poindexter (RCA)
Buster Poindexter & Soozie Tyrell- Saturday Night Fish Fry
Buster’s Happy Hour (Rhino)
Buster Poindexter- Screwy Music
Buster Poindexter (RCA)

Bill Morrissey & David Johansen- Love Arrives
Night Train (Philo)
David Johansen & The Harry Smiths- James Alley Blues
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths (Chesky)
David Johansen & The Harry Smiths- Kassie Jones
Shaker (Chesky)

David Johansen & The Harry Smiths- I Can’t Be Satisfied
Shaker (Chesky)

Part 2 – “Hello in There” and other songs that reference the elderly.

Reggie Harris- Hello In There
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Pete Seeger- Get Up and Go
Together In Concert (Rising Son)
Nancy White- Seamless Dance of the Old Folks
Gaelic Envy and Other Torch Songs (Borealis)
Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Grandpa Danced the Charleston
All New (Community Music)

Shirley Eikhard- Emily Remembers
Going Home (Artisan Music)
Kathy Mattea- Where’ve You Been
Willow in the Wind (Mercury)
Judy Collins- In the Twilight
Bohemian (Wildflower)
Anne Hills & Michael Smith- The Dutchman
Paradise Lost and Found (Redwing Music)

Finest Kind- The Goodnight-Loving Trail
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)
Utah Phillips- All Used Up
The Long Memory (Red House)
Rosalie Sorrels- Feather Ben
Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)
Eric Bogle- Now I’m Easy
Scraps of Paper (Flying Fish)
Stan Rogers- Sailor’s Rest Intro/Sailor’s Rest
Songs of a Lifetime: Home in Halifax (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Murray McLauchlan- Old Man’s Song
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Next week: Canadian Places.

--Mike Regenstreif

Friday, February 28, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 4, 2025: Remembering Roberta Flack; A Tribute to Fats Domino on Mardi Gras Day


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69216.html

Themes: Part 1 – Remembering Roberta Flack (1937-2025); Part 2 – A Tribute to Fats Domino (1928-2017) on Mardi Gras Day.

Part 1 – Remembering Roberta Flack (1937-2025)


Roberta Flack
, who died on February 24 at age 88, was a singer and pianist who blended elements of R&B, jazz, folk, blues and pop music.

Roberta Flack- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
First Take: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino)
Roberta Flack- Ballad of the Sad Young Men
First Take: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino)
Roberta Flack- Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
First Take: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino)
Roberta Flack- Reverend Lee
Chapter Two: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino)
Roberta Flack- Just Like a Woman
Chapter Two: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino)

Part 2 – A Tribute to Fats Domino (1928-2017) on Mardi Gras Day


Fats Domino
was born in New Orleans in 1928 and died there in 2017 at age 89. One of the all-time greats of New Orleans music, Fats Domino was one of the true pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll.

Fats Domino- When the Saints Go Marching In
Fats in Stereo 1959-1962: Imperial Hit Singles As & Bs (Jasmine)
Bobby Charles with Fats Domino- Walking to New Orleans
Wish You Were Here Right Now (Stony Plain)
Norah Jones- My Blue Heaven
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)
Taj Mahal & The New Orleans Social Club- My Girl Josephine
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)
Robert Plant & The Soweto Gospel Choir- Valley of Tears
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)

Fats Domino- Bo Weevil
Fats Rocks! (Bear Family)
Lowell Levinger- Blue Monday
Down to the Roots (Grandpa Raccoon)
J.D. Crowe & The New South- I’m Walkin’
J.D. Crowe & The New South (Rounder)
Saul Broudy- I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday
Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)
Hans Theessink & Terry Evans- Let the Four Winds Blow
Visions (Blue Groove)

Fats Domino- Country Boy
Fats Rocks! (Bear Family)
George Benson- Ain’t That a Shame
Walking to New Orleans: Remembering Chuck Berry and Fats Domino (Provogue)
Lucinda Williams- Honey Chile
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)
Bruce Cockburn with Margo Timmins- Blueberry Hill
Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (True North)
Bonnie Raitt & Jon Cleary- I’m in Love Again/All By Myself
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)

Fats Domino- Lady Madonna
Fats is Back (Bullseye Blues & Jazz)
Pau McCartney featuring Allen Toussaint- I Want to Walk You Home
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)
Dr. John- Don’t Leave Me This Way
Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)

Fats Domino- Shu Rah
Fats Rocks! (Bear Family)

Next week: Hello in There.

--Mike Regenstreif

Monday, February 17, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 25, 2025: A Tribute to Nina Simone


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69011.html

Theme: A Tribute to Nina Simone (1933-2003).


Nina Simone
– who died in 2003 at age 70 – was a singer, songwriter, and pianist whose music encompassed classical, jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop styles. She was also an activist and was often referred to as “the High Priestess of Soul.”

Nina Simone- Suzanne
To Love Somebody (RCA)

Nina Simone- Rags and Old Iron
Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)
Oscar Brown, Jr.- Work Song
The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)
Nina Simone- Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)

Nina Simone- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
To Love Somebody (RCA)
Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Nina Simone
Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir- See Line Woman
Front Porch Music (EarthBeat!)
Susan Werner- House of the Rising Sun
NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)
Missy Burgess- Trouble in Mind
Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)
Sneezy Waters- Solitude
Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)
Nina Simone- The Gal from Joe’s
Nina Simone Sings Ellington (Colpix)

Odetta- When I was a Young Girl
Odetta at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)
Rufus Wainwright- Hush Little Baby
Folkocracy (BMG)
Nina Simone- Silver City Bound
Folksy Nina (Colpix)

Nina Simone- Mississippi Goddam
The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Nina Simone- Stars
The Montreux Years (BMG)
Janis Ian- Nina
The Light at the End of the Line (Rude Girl)

Willie Nelson- Come Ye
Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy)
Nina Simone- Balm in Gilead
Baltimore (Epic/Legacy)
Ledisi- I’m Going Back Home
Ledisi Sings Nina (BMG)

Nina Simone- I Shall Be Released
To Love Somebody (RCA)

Next week: A Tribute to Fats Domino on Mardi Gras Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 22, 2025


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/69061.html

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Merry Mansion Quadrology: Merry Mansion; Magician; Front Door; Red White & Blue
Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Boreal- Song for a Winter’s Night
Winterbirds (Boreal)
Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles
- Just Let It Snow
Winter (Lynn Miles)
Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow
A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)
Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels
- Snowing On Raton
Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)
Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson
- Long Lonely Winter
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)
Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser- Birches
The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)
Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Ice Fishing
North (Philo)
Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- Five Kinds of Snow
Promised Land (Fossil)
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- The Druggist
At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)
The Roches- My Winter Coat
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Crys Matthews- In Her House
Reclamation (Crys Matthews)

Bradstreet & Keesee- The Land Beyond
Live in London (Street)
Kim Beggs- Miles & Miles Away
Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)
Cindy Kallet- Ride in the Light
Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart- Send Love
Looking for the Thread (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

In memory of John Roberts (1944-2025)

John Roberts- Rambleaway
Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well… (Swallowtail)
John Roberts & Tony Barrand- We Have Fed Our Sea
Naulakha Redux: Songs of Rudyard Kipling (Golden Hind Music)
John Roberts & Debra Cowan- Drive Dull Care Away
Ballads Long & Short: The Best of Every Sort (Golden Hind Music)
John Roberts & Tony Barrand- Row On
Twiddlum Twaddlum (Golden Hind Music)

Rosanne Cash- My Old Man
Rhythm & Romance (Columbia)
Rhiannon Giddens- Up Above My Head
Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)
Laura Cortese- Into the Dark
Into the Dark (Laura Cortese)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi
Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)
Tim Grimm- Broken Truth 
Broken Truth – single (Vault) 
Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown
Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Da Ishly Divky
Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Alice Howe & Freebo- A Case of You
Live (Know Howe Music)
Perla Batalla- A Thousand Kisses Deep
A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)
Orit Shimoni- My Flying Shoes
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)
Lisa Gutkin- For All of You
From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)
The Twangtown Paramours- Old Friends
The Wind will Change Again (Inside Edge)
NEeMA with Emmylou Harris- For You
Painting My Wall Gold (Neemaste Productions)
John McCutcheon with Windborne- Blessing
Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Jim Brewer- Corrina, Corrina
Take It Easy Greasy (Earwig/Riverlark Music)
Odetta- Rock Island Line
Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)
Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Don’t Know Where I’m Bound
The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)
Fabrizio Poggi with Shar White- I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
Healing Blues (Appaloosa)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears
Stardreamer (Alacazam)
Natalie Merchant with The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear
Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)
Dave Van Ronk- Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Songs for Ageing Children (Cadet)

Jenny Scheinman- Every Bear That Ever There Was
All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on March 22. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 18, 2025: Songs from Gullah Traditions


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/68957.html

Theme: Songs from Gullah Traditions.

The Gullah people are an African American group – descended from enslaved people from West Africa – who live in the coastal plains and sea islands of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida and have a rich tradition of folksongs.


Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers
- O Day
Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Buzzard Lope
Get in Union (Tompkins Square)
Reggie Harris- Sheep, Sheep/Little David
Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)
Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band- Beulah Land
Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)
Ranky Tanky- That’s Alright
Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)
David Rea- Kindlin’ Wood/Things are Coming My Way
X 7 (Gitsu)
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Sink ‘Em Low
Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

Ranky Tanky- Join the Band
Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)
Ken Whiteley- Michael Row
Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)
Kim & Reggie Harris with Baby Jay- Row de Boat
Get On Board: Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Volume 2 (Appleseed)
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project with Tim O'Brien- Before This Time Another Year
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Sign of the Judgement
Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

The Duhks- Moses Don’t Get Lost
Migrations (Sugar Hill)
The Duhks- Turtle Dove
Migrations (Sugar Hill)
Penny Lang- Let Me Fly
Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)
Ranky Tanky- Watch That Star
Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Once There was No Sun
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)
John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Adam in the Garden
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Who Built the Ark
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)
John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Let My Children Go
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)
Peter Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- My God is a Rock
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)

Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band- Pay Me My Money Down
Live in Dublin (Columbia)
Ranky Tanky- Ranky Tanky
Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- You Better Mind
Put Your Hand On Your Hip and Let Your Backbone Slip: Songs and Games from the Georgia Sea Islands (Rounder)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- May Be the Last Time, I Don’t Know
Put Your Hand On Your Hip and Let Your Backbone Slip: Songs and Games from the Georgia Sea Islands (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to Nina Simone.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 11, 2025: Four Strong Winds


Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/68904.html

Theme: Four Strong Winds.

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds
Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

John Stewart- Chilly Winds
Cannons in the Rain/Wingless Angels (One Way)
Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Blow On, Chilly Wind
Let the Rough Side Drag (Stony Plain)
Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines with Guy Van Duser- Canadian Winds
Old Wood and Winter Wine (Mineral River)
Amy Helm- Mandolin Wind
This Too Shall Light (Yep Roc)
Boreal- Cold North Wind
Winterbirds (Boreal)

Mike Regenstreif & Mary McCaslin (1999)

Mary McCaslin
- Wayward Wind
Old Friends (Philo)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- Catch the Wind
Cimarron Manifesto (Red House)
Eve Goldberg & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Eve Goldberg
- Sweet Sorrow in the Wind
Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie Music)
Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- The Wicked Wind of Fargo
River of Swing (Arabica)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- High Winds White Sky
High Winds White Sky (True North)
Sam Cooke- They Call the Wind Mariah
Sam Cooke (RCA)
Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004)

David Amram- Wind from the Indies
No More Walls (Flying Fish)

Mike Regenstreif & David Francey (2019)

David Francey
- Wind in the Wires
Torn Screen Door (Laker Music)
Jim Ringer- Any Old Wind That Blows
The Band of Jesse James: The Best of Jim Ringer (Philo)
Barrence Whitfield & Tom Russell- A Little Wind
Cowboy Mambo (Stony Plain)
Wenzel- Blow, Big Wind
Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik) 

James Gordon- Wild Wind Blows 
Wrinkles and Scars (James Gordon) 
Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978)

Priscilla Herdman- Wild Wind
The Road Home (Redwing Music)
Tex König- Wild Winds
Königsblende (Music Cellar)
Wendy Grossman- South Wind
The Last Trip Home (Riverlark Music)

Andy Cohen- Windy and Warm
Road Be Kind (Earwig)

Next week: Songs from the Gullah Traditions.

--Mike Regenstreif