Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday August 3, 2013

CKCU can be heard at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and ckcufm.com on the web.

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. Today was my third time in the co-host’s chair.

Guest: Sneezy Waters

Steel Rail- Cool, Cool Walls

River Song (Crossties Music)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Hill

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Russ Kelley- Sometimes It’s So Simple

Crazy Shades of Blue (Ark Road)

Allan Fraser- Dancehall Girls

Supermoon preview (Allan Fraser)

The Short Sisters- Upon Finding Just One

Downsized (Black Socks Press)

Ana Miura- Get Free

Dancing Alone: Songs of William Hawkins (True North)

Me & My Uncle- Next Train Blues

Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus)

Jayme Stone- Radio Wassoulou

The Other Side of the Air (Jayme Stone)

Tom Russell & the Norwegian Wind Ensemble- St. Olav’s Gate

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Night Sun- Summer Songs

One Moment of Grace (Borealis)

Anna McGarrigle, Chaim Tannenbaum, Lily Lanken, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright- Dink’s Song

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

The Good Lovelies- Hallelujah

Live at Revolution (Six Shooter)

The next six songs punctuated our conversation with Sneezy Waters.

Sneezy Waters & Mike Regenstreif (Photo: Chris White)

Sneezy Waters- Bill Morgan and His Gal

Live in the studio

Sneezy Waters- License to Kill

Live in the studio

Sneezy Waters- Do Re Mi

Live in the studio

Sneezy Waters- The Eddystone Light

Live in the studio

Sneezy Waters- I Heard the Bluebird Sing

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Sneezy Waters- Stars Fell on Alabama

Live in the studio

The rest of the songs on the show were by artists who will be at the Ottawa Folk Festival, September 4-8. ottawafolk.com

Emmylou Harris- My Songbird

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Amanda Rheaume- Ancient Rime

Keep a Fire (Amanda Rheaume)

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant

Downpour (Lynn Miles) – new release

Chris Smither- Miner’s Blues

Time Stands Still (Signature Sounds)

The show is now available for online listening. cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/13030.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on October 19.

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--Mike Regenstreif