Saturday, June 3, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 13, 2023: Train Songs, Volume II


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60788.html

Theme: Train Songs, Volume II.

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett
- Railroad Line
Bill Garrett (Borealis)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Chattanooga Choo Choo
Forty (Daring)
Jackie Washington- Sleepy Town Train
Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)
Rory Block- Midnight Train to Georgia
Ain’t Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song (Stony Plain)
The Whiteley Brothers- When the Train Comes Along 
Bluesology (Pyramid)
Doc & Merle Watson- Freight Train Boogie
Elementary Doctor Watson (Tomato)
Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Golden Rails
Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Paul Mills- Last Steam Engine Train
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Guysborough Train
From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)
Anne Hills- Maria Took the Train to Town
Tracks (Hand & Heart Music)
Steel Rail- (Just) Waiting for a Train
Coming Home (Crossties)
David Mallett- Dulcimer
Inches & Miles 1977-1980 (Flying Fish)

Doug McArthur- Tears Like Rain
Tears Like Rain (Doug McArthur)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Southern Train
London, 1958 (Jasmine)
Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones- Southern Special
Old Tin (Dittyville Music)
Larry & Joe- Nuevo South Train
Nuevo South Train (Larry & Joe)

Bill Staines- Railroad Blues
Third Time Around (Catfish)
Eric Bibb- 500 Miles
Ridin’ (Stony Plain)
Tom Russell- The Santa Fe at Midnight
Borderland (HighTone)
Caitlin Hanford- That Lonesome Whistle Sound
Bluer Skies (Denon)

Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips- I Remember Loving You
Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)
Mike Regenstreif & Ronny Cox (2013)

Ronny Cox- Cortelia Clark
How I Love Them Old Songs: Ronny Cox Sings Mickey Newbury (Bay Sound)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy- Whistle Stop
Louie Louie Louie (Savoy Jazz)

NRBQ- Next Stop Brattleboro
High Noon – A 50-Year Retrospective (Omnivore)

Next week: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Part 2.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 6, 2023: Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Later Years


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60720.html

Theme: Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Later Years.

These songs were written by Leonard Cohen from about 1990 until his death in 2016, the period covered by the book Leonard Cohen – Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In, the third in a series of three books of oral history about Leonard Cohen by Michael Posner.


Leonard Cohen
- Waiting for the Miracle
The Future (Columbia)

Judy Collins- Democracy
Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (Elektra/Rhino)
Teddy Thompson- The Future
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Verve)

Art of Time Ensemble featuring Tom Wilson- Closing Time
Songs of Leonard Cohen Live (Art of Time Recordings)

Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen- Anthem
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Verve)

Leonard Cohen- By the Rivers Dark
Ten New Songs (Columbia)
Anne Hills- Alexandra Leaving
Points of View (Appleseed)
Leonard Cohen & Sharon Robinson- Boogie Street
Ten New Songs (Columbia)

Leonard Cohen- Amen
Old Ideas (Columbia)

Leonard Cohen- Born in Chains
Popular Problems (Columbia)
Jack & Amanda Palmer- You Got Me Singing
You Got Me Singing (8ft/Cooking Vinyl)

Leonard Cohen with Cantor Gideon Zelermyer & The Shaar Hashomayim Choir- You Want It Darker
You Want It Darker (Columbia)
Norah Jones- Steer Your Way
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note)
Barb Jungr- Happens to the Heart
Barb Jungr Sings Leonard Cohen: Live at The Crazy Coqs (Kristalyn)

Leonard Cohen- Listen to the Hummingbird
Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)


Next week: Train Songs, Volume II.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Monday, May 22, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 30, 2023: Songs of Bertolt Brecht


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60634.html

Theme: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956).


Bertolt Brecht
, who died in 1956 at age 58, was a German playwright and poet who believed in the power of the arts to advance progressive causes. One of his most famous quotations is, “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

Brecht collaborated worked with a number of composers – including Kurt Weill, Hans Eisler and others – to put his words to music.

Songs from The Threepenny Opera (1928). Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill.

Dave Van Ronk- Mack the Knife
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)

Judy Collins- Pirate Jenny
Forever: An Anthology (Elektra)
The Fowler Brothers & Stan Ridgway- Cannon Song
Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill (A&M)
Beatrice Arthur- Barbara Song
The Threepenny Opera – 1954 Off Broadway Cast Recording (Decca)
William S. Burroughs- What Keeps Mankind Alive?
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sony Classical)
Lotte Lenya- Solomon Song
The Threepenny Opera – 1954 Off Broadway Cast Recording (Decca)
Dave Van Ronk & Frankie Armstrong- Tango Ballad
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)

Bertolt Brecht- Moritat von Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife)
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sony Classical)

Songs from Happy End (1929). Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill.

Martha Schlamme- The Bilbao Song
A Kurt Weill Cabaret (MGM)
Lotte Lenya- Sailor’s Tango
Lotte Lenya Singt Kurt Weill (Philips)
Will Holt- Mandalay Song
A Kurt Weill Cabaret (MGM)
Bette Midler- Surabaya Johnny
Bette Midler (Atlantic)

Songs from The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944). Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.

The songs from The Caucasian Chalk Circle have been set to music by many composers – with many productions of the play commissioning unique settings. These settings were composed by Dave Holt for a 1970s production by The Camp Meeker Players in Sonoma County, California. These unreleased recordings were recorded seven or eight years ago at a reunion of the cast. Thanks to Mitch Greenhill for sending the recordings and securing permission to use them on this program.

Carol BurlesonMitch Greenhill & Dave Holt- Song of the Adoption
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (unreleased recording – used with permission)
Carol BurlesonMitch Greenhill & Dave Holt- Song of the Child
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (unreleased recording – used with permission)
Carol BurlesonMitch Greenhill & Dave Holt- Song of the Return
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (unreleased recording – used with permission)

Songs from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1927). Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill..

Dave Van Ronk- We All Make the Bed That We Lie In
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)
Marianne Faithfull- Alabama Song
20th Century Blues (RCA)
The Persuasions- Oh Heavenly Salvation
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sony Classical)

Songs with words by Bertolt Brecht and music by Hans Eisler.

Pirate Jenny Trio- To the Little Radio
Cabaret Blues (Pirate Jenny Trio)
Frankie Armstrong- The Love Market
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)
Pirate Jenny Trio- Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife
Cabaret Blues (Pirate Jenny Trio)
Frankie Armstrong- The Song of the Little Wind
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)
Pirate Jenny Trio- Song of a German Mother
Cabaret Blues (Pirate Jenny Trio)

The program ends with an instrumental version of the song we started with.

Oscar Peterson & Itzhak Pearlman- Mack the Knife
Side By Side (Telarc)

Next week: Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Later Years.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 23, 2023: The Traditional Folk & Blues Songs of Bob Dylan


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60463.html

Theme: The Traditional Folk & Blues Songs of Bob Dylan.

I’ve always felt that the best songwriters have a deep understanding and appreciation of traditional music, and Bob Dylan is among those who set the standard for that. All the songs on this program have been part of Dylan’s repertoire at some point over the past 60-plus years.


Bob Dylan
- Man of Constant Sorrow
Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

The Norfolk Broads- Fennario (Pretty Peggy-O)
Yonder Green Grove (The Norfolk Broads)
Michael Jerome Browne with Tielhard Frost- Fixin’ to Die Blues
Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)
The Be Good Tanyas- In My Time of Dying
Chinatown (Nettwerk)
Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis with The Blind Boys of Alabama- See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Juba Dance (M.C.)
Dave Van Ronk- House of the Rising Sun
Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)

Odetta- No More Auction Block
Odetta at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)
Garnet Rogers- Corrina, Corrina
Night Drive (Snow Goose Songs)
Deborah Robins- Tell Old Bill
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music) 
Joni Mitchell- Copper Kettle
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Kim Beggs- Moonshiner
Beauty and Breaking (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

The Dumptrucks- Stealin’
Selections (Laughing Cactus)
Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Rocks and Gravel
Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)
Tom Russell- Rambler, Gambler
Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection (HMG)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Railroad Bill
Hard Travelin’ (Fantasy)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Marc Nerenberg- Dink’s Song
Delia’s Gone: Murder Ballads & Other Songs of Love & Death (Marc Nerenberg)
Martin Grosswendt- Delia
Pay Day! (Martin Grosswendt)
Happy Traum- The Water is Wide
Just for the Love of It (Lark’s Nest Music)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Hard Times Come Again No More
Songs of the Civil War (Columbia)

Bob Dylan- Days of ‘49
Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)

Next week: Songs of Bertolt Brecht.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Monday, May 15, 2023

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 20, 2023


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60547.html
 
Bob Dylan- Mr. Tambourine Man
The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn
- Push Comes to Shove
O Sun O Moon (True North)
Martha Trachtenberg with Dede Wyland- Ticket Back
It’s About Time (Mom and Pop)
Robinson & Rohe- Where I’m Coming From
Into the Night (Righteous Babe)

Michael Jerome Browne with Harrison Kennedy- Monday Morning Blues
Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)
Colleen Peterson- Richland Woman Blues
Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)
Mississippi John Hurt- Pay Day
Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)
Michael Jerome Browne with Mary Flower & John Sebastian- Coffee Blues
Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)
Happy & Artie Traum- Mississippi John
Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)

Daniel Janke- Remember My Name
Songs of Small Resistance (Northern Town Films)
Annie Capps- The Punch
How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)
Bruce Murdoch- Daly’s Song
Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)
Linda Morrison- Barcelona
Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)

Alison Brown featuring Anat Cohen- Choro ‘Nuff
On Banjo (Compass)

Geoff Bartley- Baby Boomers
The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)
Hans Theessink & Big Daddy Wilson- Roll with the Punches
Pay Day (Blue Groove)
The Refugees- Good Vibrations
California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

William Prince- Take a Look Around
Stand in the Joy (Six Shooter)
Orit Shimoni- Sing Back to Me
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)
Garnet Rogers- All That Is
Sparrow’s Wing (Snow Goose Songs)
Rachelle Garniez- Anthem
Gone to Glory (StorySound)
Iggy Pop- You Want It Darker
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note)

Dom Flemons- Saddle It Around
Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)
Andy Hedges featuring Dom Flemons- Dodgin’ Joe
Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)
The Rifters- At the Foot of the Mountain
The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)
Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Wind River and You
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
John Gorka- Mennonite Girl
True in Time (Red House)

Russ Kelley- Somewhere Later Down the Road
Crazy Shades of Blue (Ark Road Music Productions)


Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
- Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Love is the Answer
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Franklin Tango
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Unsolicited Advice
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Closer to the Light
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Two Peas in a Pod
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Liz Miller- Bittersweet
Lucky Me (Liz Miller)
Tom Russell- Old Heart
Love & Fear (HighTone)
Lynn Miles- Hide Your Heart
tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)
Tom Mitchell- A Little Longer with You
When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)
Jim Wurster- Brand New Start
Three Silly Love Songs (Y&T Music)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown
Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)
Bruce Cockburn- Orders
O Sun O Moon (True North)
Tim Grimm- I Don’t Know This World
The Little In-Between (Vault)
Too Sad for the Public with Ana Egge- Old Alabama
Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade: American Folk Fantasies Written and Arranged by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Shelley Posen with Erik Frandsen- It’s for You
Old Loves (Well Done Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 17. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

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--Mike Regenstreif

Friday, May 5, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 16, 2023: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60419.html

Theme: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023).


One of our greatest singer-songwriters – whose songs have done much to help define Canadian identity and culture – Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1st at age 84.

Gordon Lightfoot- Long River
The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

Bruce Cockburn- Ribbon of Darkness
Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)
Matthew Alexander- Steel Rail Blues
Soul River (Caravan)
Ilsey Juber- The Way I Feel
Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)
Gordon Lightfoot- Bitter Green
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Johnny Cash- For Lovin’ Me
The Man in Black 1963-’69, Plus (Bear Family)
George Hamilton IV- Did She Mention My Name
In the 4th Dimension (RCA)
Stephen Fearing- Early Morning Rain
Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Gordon Lightfoot- Alberta Bound
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Murray McLauchlan- Home from the Forest
Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)
Katy Moffatt- Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Connie Kaldor- If You Could Read My Mind
Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)
Gordon Lightfoot- Cold on the Shoulder
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
The Kennedys- Cotton Jenny
Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)
Special Consensus- Brave Mountaineers
Great Blue North (Compass)
John McLachlan with Marc Atkinson & Scott White- The Patriot’s Dream
50 Years Since Don Quixote: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (John McLachlan)

Gordon Lightfoot- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Darling West- Sundown
Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)
Tony Rice- Walls
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (Rounder) 
Quartette- Song for a Winter’s Night
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Gordon Lightfoot- A Painter Passing Through
A Painter Passing Through (Reprise)

Next week: The traditional folk and blues songs of Bob Dylan.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 9, 2023: Remembering Harry Belafonte


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60382.html

Theme: Remembering Harry Belafonte (1927-2023).

Harry Belafonte – the inspiring African American singer, actor, and activist – passed away from congestive heart failure on April 25 at age 96. My parents had a copy of his 1959 album, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall and I listened to it many hundreds of times. It was my essential introduction to folk music.


Harry Belafonte- Day-O
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- Sylvie
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- Cotton Fields
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- John Henry
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- The Midnight Special
The Midnight Special (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- Fare Thee Well
Belafonte Sings the Blues (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- Angelina
Jump Up Calypso (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- Jamaica Farewell
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- Suzanne
Belafonte (RCA)
Harry Belafonte & Odetta- A Hole in the Bucket
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- Man Piaba
Mark Twain and other Folk Favorites (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- Michael Row the Boat Ashore
The Midnight Special (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- Oh Freedom
My Lord What a Mornin’ (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- The Dog Song
Belafonte On Campus (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- Merci Bon Dieu
An Evening with Belafonte (RCA)
Harry Belafonte- Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)
Harry Belafonte & The Belafonte Folk Singers- Hené Ma Tov
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (RCA)
Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba- Bamotsweri
The Many Moods of Belafonte (RCA)

Harry Belafonte- Matilda
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA)

Next week: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023).

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 2, 2023: Stompin’ at the Savoy


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60257.html

Theme: Stompin’ at the Savoy.

The Savoy Ballroom in the Harlem section of New York City was a major music venue from 1926 until 1958, and in the liner notes to Savoy by Taj Mahal, Holger Peterson notes that 13 of the 14 songs on the album would likely have been heard at the Savoy during its long run. And that’s what gave me the idea for this theme. All the songs on this show were performed during that period and might well have been heard at the Savoy at some point.


Taj Mahal
- Stompin’ at the Savoy
Savoy (Stony Plain)

Ella Fitzgerald with The Chick Webb Orchestra- A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Swingsation (Verve)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy- Diga Diga Do
Rattle Them Bones (Savoy Jazz)
Howard Armstrong- Lady Be Good
Louie Bluie (Blue Suit)
Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- He Ain’t Got Rhythm
I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)
Taj Mahal- Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Savoy (Stony Plain)
Catherine Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Catherine Russell- Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
Alone Together (Dot Time)

Taj Mahal- Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
Savoy (Stony Plain)
Barney Bigard & Orchestra- C Jam Blues
The Great Ellington Units (BMG)
Ella Fitzgerald with The Duke Ellington Orchestra- I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (Verve)
Jackie Washington & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Jackie Washington- Take the “A” Train
Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)
Nina Simone- Mood Indigo
Let It All Out (Liberty)

Taj Mahal- Caldonia
Savoy (Stony Plain)
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown- Salt Pork, West Virginia
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Sings Louis Jordan (Black & Blue)
Asleep at the Wheel- Choo Ch’Boogie
Having a Party: Live (Goldenlane)
Louis Jordan- Let the Good Times Roll
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five (JSP)

Taj Mahal- Sweet Georgia Brown
Savoy (Stony Plain)
Dave Van Ronk- Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)
Oscar Brown, Jr.- One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)
Count Basie & His Orchestra- Jumpin’ at the Woodside
The Count Basie Story, Vol. 1 (Columbia)
Cab Calloway- Minnie the Moocher
Are You Hep to the Jive? (Columbia/Legacy)

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong- Stompin’ at the Savoy
Ella and Louis Again (Verve)

Next week: Remembering Harry Belafonte (1927-2023).

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--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 25, 2023: Willie Nelson at 90


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60138.html

Theme: Willie Nelson at 90.


Willie Nelson
will turn 90 on April 29th and as Bob Dylan wrote in his book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, “Willie Nelson could, as they say, sing the phone book and make you weep – he could also write the phonebook.”

Willie Nelson- My Own Peculiar Way
My Own Peculiar Way (RCA)

Patsy Cline- Crazy
The Unforgettable Patsy Cline (PolyTel)
Lucinda Williams- Funny How Time Slips Away
Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of ‘60s Country Classics (Highway 20)
The Little Willies- Night Life
The Little Willies (Milking Bull)
Willie Nelson- Mr. Record Man
Absolutely the Best, Volume 1 (Fuel 2000)
Bobby Bare- One Day at a Time
Constant Sorrow (RCA)
k.d. lang & the reclines- Three Days
Absolute Torch and Twang (Sire)
Colleen Peterson- Sad Songs and Waltzes
Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)
Willie Nelson- Hello Walls
Absolutely the Best, Volume 1 (Fuel 2000)


Willie Nelson
- Time of the Preacher
Red Headed Stranger (Columbia/Legacy)
Doc & Merle Watson- I Couldn’t Believe it was True
Elementary Doctor Watson (Tomato)
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Kerouac’s Last Dream (Appleseed)
Willie Nelson- Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger (Columbia/Legacy)

Willie Nelson- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Stardust (Columbia)
Kerri Powers- Always On My Mind
Words on the Wind (Must Have Music)
Emmylou Harris- Sister’s Coming Home
Blue Kentucky Girl (Warner Bros./Rhino)
Willie Nelson- Me and Paul
Wanted! The Outlaws (RCA)

Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel- Hesitation Blues
Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux)
Willie Nelson & Kimmie Rhodes- I Just Drove By
Just One Love (Justice)
Kinky Friedman & Willie Nelson- Bloody Mary Morning
The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (Avenue A)
Judy Collins & Willie Nelson- When I Go
Strangers Again (Wildflower/Cleopatra)
Wynton Marsalis Septet featuring Willie Nelson- Milk Cow Blues
United We Swing: Best of the Lincoln Centre Galas (Blue Engine)

Willie Nelson & Bonnie Raitt- Getting Over You
Across the Borderline (Columbia)
Townes Van Zandt & Willie Nelson- Marie
Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (Tomato)

Mary Kay Place & Willie Nelson- Something to Brag About
The Ahern Sessions 1976-1977 (Raven)

Next week: Stompin’ at the Savoy.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 22, 2023


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60194.html

Judy Collins- Mr. Tambourine Man 
Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Temple of Dendur (Wildflower)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2001) photo: Janice Hanson

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This
The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)
The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth
The Enchanted World (Howlin' Dog)
Jaeger & Reid- Fire (For Greta)
Fire (For Greta) – single (Judi Jaeger & Bob Reid)
Debra Mann- Big Yellow Taxi
Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell (Whaling City Sound)
Kuné- Earth I
Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Lynn Miles- Moody
tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)
Stephen Fearing- As the Crow Flies
Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)
Jason Lang- Carry On Children
Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)
Penny Lang- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me
Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Meredith Moon- Constellations
Constellations (True North)
Gordon Lightfoot- Sixteen Miles
The Original Lightfoot: The United Artists Years (EMI)

Chris Coole & John Showman- The Julia Belle Swain
Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)
Dom Flemons- Tough Luck
Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble- Longford Tinker
Peggy’s Dream (Faction)

Colleen Kattau- In the Garden
In the Garden – single (Wind Light Studios)
Amelia Hogan- The Woodthrush’s Song
Taking Flight (Amelia Hogan)
Kuné- Earth II
Universal Echoes (Kuné)
Kuné- Earth III
Universal Echoes (Kuné)
Tom Chapin- This Pretty Planet II
This Pretty Planet (Sundance Music)

Eddie Redmayne & Cast- Wilkommen
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)
Jessie Buckley & Cast- Cabaret
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Coco Love Alcorn- Good News
Wonderland (Coco Love Alcorn)
Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come & Go with Me/I’m On My Way
Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Jenny Whiteley- Needle in a Haystack
Hopetown (Black Hen Music)
Tim Grimm- Lonesome All the Time
The Little In-Between (Vault)
Ray Lemelin- Grandma’s Hands
Dark/Out of Phase (Ray Lemelin)
Eric Bibb featuring Harrison Kennedy- Call Me By My Name
Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Dakota Dave Hull- Oh, Didn’t Ramble
Better Late Than Never: The Classic American Guitar-Banjo (Arabica)


Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
- All Wigged Out
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Amy’s of Denmark
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Car Wash
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Tipsy All the Time
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Where’d You Get That Hat
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Jesus is My Backstreet Driver
All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- Pork Roast and Poetry
Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels (Tribute to Rosalie Sorrels)
Rosalie Sorrels- Singing in the Country
Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)
Andy Hedges & Tom Russell- Old Dolores
Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)
Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Flatbush Sunset
Hello World (Crooked Cyclone)

Mike Ward- The Currency of Forgiveness
Love Never Rests (Psychosongs)
Grace Morrison- Oh, Colorado
Maybe Modern (Grace Morrison)
Chris Coole- Where the Light Begins
The Old Man and the C Chord (Chris Coole)
Greg Greenway- That’s Where the Hope Comes From
Between Hello & Goodbye (Greg Greenway)

Polky- Kolomyjka
Songs from Home (Polky)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 20. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

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--Mike Regenstreif

Sunday, April 9, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 18, 2023: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Part 1


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60086.html

Theme: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Part 1.

Bob Dylan wrote about each of the songs on this show in his book, The Philosophy of Modern Song. Except where noted, these tracks are the versions of the songs that Dylan cites.


Bobby Bare- Detroit City
The Best of Bobby Bare (Razor & Tie)

Elvis Costello- Pump It Up
This Year’s Model (Radar)

Dylan cites Webb Pierce’s version of “There Stands the Glass.”

Ted Hawkins- There Stands the Glass 
The Next Hundred Years (Geffen)

Billy Joe Shaver- Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
Old Five and Dimers Like Me (Monument)
Little Richard- Tutti Frutti
18 Greatest Hits (Rhino)

Elvis Presley- Money Honey
Elvis Presley (RCA)
The Who- My Generation
The Who Sings My Generation (Decca)

Dylan cites Harry McClintock’s 1928 version of “Jesse James.”

Bruce Springsteen- Jesse James
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia)

Dylan cites Ricky Nelson’s 1958 version of “Poor Little Fool.” This is a later live version.

Rick Nelson- Poor Little Fool
A Night to Remember (True North)

Dylan cites Perry Como’s version of “Without a Song.”

The Righteous Brothers- Without a Song
Greatest Hits (Verve)
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson- Pancho and Lefty
Pancho & Lefty (Epic)

Jackson Browne- The Pretender
The Pretender (Elektra)
Bobby Darin- Mack the Knife
That’s All (Atco)

Dylan cites Bing Crosby’s version of “The Whiffenpoof Song.”

Art Neville- The Whiffenpoof Song
Let New Orleans Rock (Blues Interactions)

Dylan cites Cher’s 1971 version of “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves.” This is a later live version.

Cher- Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
Live in Concert (HBO)

Dylan cites Rosemary Clooney’s version of “Come On-A My House.”

Kay Starr- Come On-A My House
Come On-A My House – single (Capitol)
Eddy Arnold- You Don’t Know Me
You Don’t Know Me – single (RCA)

Johnnie & Jack- Poison Love
Poison Love – single (RCA)
Alvin Youngblood Hart- Nelly was a Lady
Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster (American Roots Publishing)

Dylan cites Johnnie Ray’s version of “The Little White Cloud That Cried.”

Jackie Washington- The Little White Cloud That Cried
The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)
Ray Charles- I Got a Woman
The Birth of Soul (Atlantic)

The Fugs- CIA Man
The Fugs First Album (Fantasy)
Grateful Dead- Truckin’
American Beauty (Warner Bros.)

Dylan cites Vic Damone’s version of “On the Street Where You Live.”

Pat Guadango- On the Street Where You Live
1964 (Campbell Music)

Next week: Willie Nelson at 90.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 11, 2023: Old Friends


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60053.html

Theme: Old Friends – all the songs relate, in one way or another – to friendship. The five songs on the show called “Old Friends” are all different songs.

Guy Clark- Old Friends
Old Friends (Sugar Hill)

Andy Cohen- Bob Dylan’s Dream
Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)
Tom Russell- These Friends of Mine
Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)
Nanci Griffith, Dave Van Ronk & Eric Taylor- He was a Friend of Mine
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra) 
Sneezy Waters- Circle of Friends
Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)
Tom Mitchell, Mike Regenstreif & Mary McCaslin (1999)

Mary McCaslin
- Old Friends
Old Friends (Philo)

Ronney Abramson- Three O’Clock Ride
Three O’Clock Ride – single (Ronney Abramson)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places
Sparkle and Shine (Front Hall)
Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane
The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)
Tom Mitchell- You Save Everything
When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)
Huxtable, Christensen & Hood- Oldest of Friends
Wallflowers (Philo)
Frida’s Brow- Old Friends
Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

John McCutcheon- That’s All
Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)
Bill Staines- Dear Friend
The Second Million Miles (Red House)
Mike Regenstreif, Bruce Murdoch & Sneezy Waters (2014)

Bruce Murdoch
- Farewell My Friend
Singer-Songwriter Project (Elektra)
Tom Paxton- Comedians and Angels
Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)
Lucy Kaplansky- Old Friends
Everyday Street (Lucy Kaplansky)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Good Friends
Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)
Durham County Poets- With a Little Help from My Friends
Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)
Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Sweet Loving Friendship
Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)
Pete Seeger with Arlo Guthrie & Shenendoah- Precious Friend You Will Be There
Precious Friend (Warner Bros.)

Gathering Time- Old Friends
Old Friends (Triple-G Records)

Next week: The Philosophy of Modern Song.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 4, 2023: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60013.html

Theme: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends.

Kim & Reggie Harris- Go Down Moses
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Tell It on the Mountain
In the Wind (Warner Bros.)
Rabbi Jonathan Kliger & Reggie Harris- Man Come Into Egypt
Let My People Go: A Jewish & African American Celebration of Freedom (Appleseed)
Caroline Doctorow- Wade in the Water
That Changes Everything (Narrow Lane)
The Short Sisters- Moses
A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)
The Klezmatics- Moses Smote the Water
Brother Moses Smote the Water (Piranha)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Wade in the Water
Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs (Verve)

Michael Jerome Browne & Harrison Kennedy- Pharaoh
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army
Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)
Bob Franke- Walkin’ in the Wilderness
The Desert Questions (Robert J. Franke)

Shelley Posen- And We Sang ‘Ha Lakhma Anya’
Manna (Well Done Music)

David Olney- Jerusalem Tomorrow
The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Brays
The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Brains
The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Flesh and Blood
The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Barabbas
The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- A Soldier’s Report
The Stone (Deadbeet)

Reverend Gary Davis- Crucifixion
A Little More Faith (Prestige/Bluesville)
Ralph McTell- Jesus Wept
Sand in Your Shoes (Red House)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
Come Sunday (EmArcy)

Next week: Old Friends.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 28, 2023: Cowboys & Cowgirls


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

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/59884.html

Theme: Cowboys & Cowgirls.

Ian Tyson- Night Rider’s Lament
Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Andy Hedges featuring Corb Lund- Little Joe the Wrangler
Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)
Finest Kind- The Goodnight-Loving Trail
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Diamond Joe
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy Songs (Monitor)

The Sons of the Pioneers- Roving Cowboy
Tumbling Tumbleweeds: The Chart Years 1934-49 (Acrobat)
Peter Keane- Cool Water
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Herb Jeffries with Take 6- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again) (Warner Western)
Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Blue Shadows on the Trail
River of Swing (Arabica)

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)

Stan Rogers- Night Guard
Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Quartette- Cowboys and Rodeos
Quartette (Denon)
Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- All This Way for the Short Ride
Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)
Katy Moffatt- Hallie Lonigan
Cowboy Girl (Western Jubilee)

Dom Flemons- He’s a Lone Ranger
Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)
Over the Moon- John Ware
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Odetta- When I was a Cowboy
Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Lynn Miles- Palomino
tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)
Me & My Uncle- Me and My Uncle
Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus Music)
Marty Robbins- El Paso
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (Columbia)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- I Ride an Old Paint
Son of the Wind (Rising Son)
Tom Rush- Windy Bill
Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO)
Eliza Gilkyson- Colorado Trail
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

Asleep at the Wheel- I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)
Reinventing the Wheel (Bismeaux)
Mickey Katz & His Orchestra- Haim Afen Range (Home on the Range)
Strictly Kosher: The Singles Collection 1950-1962 (Jasmine)

Bill Frissell & Petra Haden- Happy Trails
When You Wish Upon a Star (Okeh/Masterworks)

Next week: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Monday, March 20, 2023

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March, 2023


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/59865.html

The Brothers & Sisters- Mr. Tambourine Man 
Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)

Three songs in memory of Dane Lanken. Dane, an old friend and colleague in both music and journalism, died on March 3rd, at age 77.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Dane Lanken- No Biscuit Blues
Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mike Regenstreif, Chaim Tannenbaum & Dane Lanken (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken with Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Loudon Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane & Sylvan Lanken
- Johnny’s Gone to Hilo
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Rob Corcoran & The Necessary Evils- Over in Verona
Grand Declarations (Rob Corcoran)Er
Steve Lundquist- I’m Not Your Romeo
Acting a Fool (Steve Lundquist)
Lynne Hanson- Seeking Juliet
Eleven Months (Lynne Hanson)

Eric Bibb- 500 Miles
Ridin’ (Stony Plain)
Just Us Lillys- In the Hills of Tennessee
Not Far from the Tree (Just Us Lillys)
Kerri Powers- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Words on the Wind (Must Have Music)
Tim Grimm- The Leaving
The Little In-Between (Vault)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)
Mary Gauthier- Sugar Cane
Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)
Geoff Bartley- Joshua Gone Barbados
The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)

Bunny Barnes- Hallelujah
It Goes Like It Goes (Bunny Barnes)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor
- The Woman Who Pays
The Woman Who Pays – single (Connie Kaldor)

Mary Beth Carty- Voilà le Printemps
Crossing the Causeway (Mary Beth Carty)
Amelia Hogan- Red-Winged Blackbird
Taking Flight (Amelia Hogan)
Vinta- The Heron’s Rookery
Beacons (Vinta)
Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy featuring Rhiannon Giddens- Woman of the House
Canvas (Linus)
Karan Casey- I Thank My Lucky Stars
Nine Apples of Gold (Crow Valley Music)

Jason Lang- Happiness Is
Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)
Penny Lang- Diamonds on the Water
Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)
Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- My Time is Gonna Come
Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Rebecca Folsom- New Way Home
Sanctuary (Sunshine Productions)
Ben & Dom- Children of Darkness
His Head Lies Heavy (Ben & Dom)
Doug Cox & Linda McRae- Beyond the Great Pause
Beyond the Great Pause (42 RPM)
Eric Erickson- Slow and Steady
The Shadow of the Moon (Ardith Recordings)
Annie Capps- How Can I Say This
How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)
Eric Kilburn- She Do
Reckonings (Wellspring)

Dakota Dave Hull- Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now
Better Late Than Never: The Classic American Guitar-Banjo (Arabica)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Dr. Joelson’s Bag
Hello World (Crooked Cyclone)
Bonnie Dobson- Peter Amberley
At Folk City (Prestige)
The Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell- Those Were the Days
Older But No Wiser (Vanguard)

Lynn Miles- Hwy 105
tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)
Tom Russell- T-Bone Steak and Spanish Wine
October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Keith Glass Band- Come Along
Different World (Stump)
Rick Scott & Nico Rhodes- Hurt So Long
Roots & Grooves (Grand PooBah Music)
Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Shari Ulrich- Free Fall
Everywhere I Go (Borealis)
Derek Vanderhorst- Hanging on Your Door
Wildflower (Derek Vanderhorst)
Scarlet Rivera- Before Everything Changed
Tribute to a Song Poet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

My Politic- Cursing at the Night & at the Morning
Missouri Folklore: Songs & Stories from Home (My Politic)
Marilyn Jordan- Calico Curtains
Both Things are True (Marilyn Jordan)

The Klezmorim- Firen Di Mekhutonim Aheym
First Recordings (Arhoolie)

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

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--Mike Regenstreif