Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday January 7, 2017

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am now 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 at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/30462.html. Due to a technical problem, the program actually begins at six minutes and 50 seconds into the on-demand stream.

The first part of the show featured selections from my choices of the Top 16 folk-rooted and folk-branched CDs of 2016.

Jenny Whiteley- $100

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen)

Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt- Who Knows Where the Time Goes

We are Welcomed (Pragmavision)

Corin Raymond- Morning Glories

Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams (Local Rascal)

Bob Dylan- Desolation Row

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (Columbia/Legacy)

Eric Bibb & North Country Fair with Danny Thompson- The Happiest Man in the World

The Happiest Man in the World (Stony Plain)

Claire Lynch- Black Flowers

North by South (Compass)

Orit Shimoni- Fool

Soft Like Snow (MW Music)

Anne Hills & Jay Ansill- Allie

Fragile Gifts (Hand & Heart Music)

David Francey- Alli’s Wedding

EmptyTrain (Laker Music)

Leyla McCalla- Fey-O

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey (Jazz Village)

Maria Dunn- Flora

Gathering (Distant Whisper)

The Del McCoury Band- The New York Trains

Del and Woody (McCoury Music)

Tom Russell & Eliza Gilkyson- Where Do All the Cowboys Go?

The Tom Russell Anthology 2: Gunpowder Sunsets (Frontera)

Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur- Guabi, Guabi

Penny’s Farm (Kingswood)

Chaim Tannenbaum- London, Longing for Home

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Leonard Cohen w/Cantor Gideon Zelermyer & the Shaar Hashomayim Choir- You Want It Darker

You Want It Darker (Columbia)

The second part of the show was a tribute to the late Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016: poet, novelist and masterful singer-songwriter.

Mad Pudding- First We Take Manhattan

Grand Hotel (Sliced Bread)

Leonard Cohen- The Sparrows

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Jennifer Warnes- A Singer Must Die

Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen 20th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)

Perla Batalla- Famous Blue Raincoat

Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Anne Hills- Alexandra Leaving

Points of View (Appleseed)

The Once- Coming Back to You

The Once (Borealis)

Leonard Cohen- Warning

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Martha Wainwright- The Traitor

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Verve Forecast)

Tex König- Sisters of Mercy

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Leonard Cohen- Poem

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Reid Jamieson- Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

Dear Leonard (Reid Jamieson)

Judy Collins- Story of Isaac

Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (Elektra/Rhino)

Leonard Cohen- Lovers

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Madeleine Peyroux- Dance Me to the End of Love

Careless Love (Rounder)

Emmylou Harris- Ballad of a Runaway Horse

Cowgirl’s Prayer (Asylum)

Leonard Cohen- Les Vieux

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Nick Cave & Julie Christensen- Suzanne

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Verve Forecast)

Susie Burke- Song of Bernadette

Lucky Stars (Madrina Music)

The Love Hall Tryst- Joan of Arc

Songs of Misfortune (Appleseed)

The Good Lovelies- Hallelujah

Live at Revolution (Six Shooter)

Tom Russell- Tower of Song

Selections from Love & Fear plus bonus out-takes (HighTone)

Leonard Cohen- Anthem

Live in London (Columbia)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 4. I’ll also be co-hosting Canadian Spaces with Chris White on January 28 (10 am-noon).

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--Mike Regenstreif