Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 26, 2018

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 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 https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/37710.html.

Extended features – The 10-Day Album Cover Challenge; Songs of Townes Van Zandt (1944-2007).

The Wailin' Jennys- The Light of a Clear Blue Morning

Fifteen (True North)

Reggie Harris- Ready to Go

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Tom Russell- Blue Wing

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Andrew & Casey Calhoun- Gun-Metal Eyes

Skeins (Waterbug)

Chuck Brodsky- Warsaw in May

Them and Us (Chuck Brodsky)

David Francey- Poorer Then

The Broken Heart of Everything (Laker)

The Facebook 10-Day Album Cover Challenge

Leonard Cohen- Suzanne

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now

Clouds (Reprise)

Bob Dylan- All Along the Watchtower

John Wesley Harding (Columbia/Legacy)

The Band- Stage Fright

Stage Fright (Capitol)

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Mississippi John Hurt- Richland Woman Blues

The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt (Vanguard)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses

In London (Marble Arch)

Tom Paxton- Morning Again

Morning Again (Elektra)

Paul Siebel- Bride 1945

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Someday Soon

Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)

Songs of Townes Van Zandt (1944-2007)

 

Kimmie Rhodes- If I Needed You

Walls Fall Down (Sunbird)

Steve Earle- (Quicksilver Dreams of) Maria

Townes: The Basics (New West)

Kate & Edith- Rex’s Blues

Live at Kelso Hall (Kate & Edith)

Townes Van Zandt- Tower Song

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Tomato)

Rosalie Sorrels- Snowing On Raton

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Jimmie Dale Gilmore- No Lonesome Tune

One Endless Night (Rounder)

The Be Good Tanyas- Waiting Around to Die

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Townes Van Zandt- No Place to Fall

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Tomato)

Colleen Rennison- White Freightliner

See the Sky About to Rain (Black Hen)

Jerry Jeff Walker- I’ll Be Here in the Morning

Viva Luckenbach (Ryko)

Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie- Tecumseh Valley

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Townes Van Zandt- Kathleen

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Tomato)

The Wainwright Sisters- Our Mother the Mountain

Songs in the Dark (MapleMusic)

Guy Clark- To Live is to Fly

Old Friends (Sugar Hill)

Emmylou Harris- Pancho & Lefty

Luxury Liner (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Townes Van Zandt- For the Sake of the Song

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Tomato)

Bettye LaVette- Mama, You Been On My Mind

Things Have Changed (Verve)

The LYNNeS- Blame It on the Devil

Heartbreak Song for the Radio (The LYNNeS)

Laurie MacAllister- Unfamiliar Moon

The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)

Vance Gilbert- Boy on a Train

Old White Men (Disismye Music)

Annie Lou- Delilah

End Zone (Annie Lou Music)

El Coyote- Only Temporary

El Coyote (El Coyote)

John Gorka- The Ballad of Iris & Pearl

True in Time (Red House)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Salt & Powder

Sweet Old Religion (Lula)

Peter Rowan- Drumbeats on the Watchtower

Carter Stanley’s Eyes (Rebel)

Ken Perlman- Londonderry Hornpipe/Jenny Dang the Weaver/Sleepy Maggie

Frails & Frolics: Fiddle Tunes from Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and elsewhere on Clawhammer Banjo (Redbud)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 23.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

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--Mike Regenstreif

The Facebook 10-Day Album Cover Challenge

Marc Nerenberg nominated me to participate in the 10-day album cover challenge. I was in high school from 1967 to 1971 and my choices were all LPs that I bought when they were newly released back then and that I still listen to a half-century – or almost a half-century – later. This was also the period that I began serving my time on the Montreal folk scene.

I will play a song from each of these albums when I host the Saturday Morning show on CKCU on May 26. The albums are not ranked in order, they are arranged in an order that will make for good radio sets.

Day 1: Leonard Cohen’s first LP, Songs of Leonard Cohen, was essential for almost all of us who lived in Montreal in those years.

Day 2: I saw Joni Mitchell live for the first time in July 1969. Clouds was her current LP at the time.

Day 3: The brilliant enigmatic songs of John Wesley Harding, with their rustic acoustic arrangements make this one of my all-time favorite Bob Dylan albums.

Day 4: The Band was probably my favorite rock band when I was in high school and my favorite of their albums was Stage Fright, their third.

Day 5: I had already met Jesse Winchester on the Montreal folk scene before Jesse Winchester, his first, self-titled LP came out. Produced by Robbie Robertson of The Band, the album was filled with enduring classics that established Jesse – who became a lifelong friend – as one of our greatest singer-songwriters.

Day 6: I was a little too young to have heard songster Mississippi John Hurt live before he died in 1966, but I spent many hours listening to his LPs, including The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt, with their infectious guitar lines, gentle singing, and vivid, memorable songs.

Day 7: Bluesmen Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were the first older (older than my parents) musicians I got to know personally. In London was a great album with a bad cover and no info released on a budget label in 1969. I bought it after meeting Sonny and Brownie around that time. I later found out the tracks were recorded in London in 1958.

Day 8: I met Tom Paxton for the first time when I was 14 or 15 in 1968 or ’69. It was encounter that had a lot to do with my becoming involved in the folk music scene. Morning Again was Tom’s current album at the time.

Day 9: Paul Siebel only made two albums as a singer-songwriter. The second, Jackknife Gypsy, one was quite good, but I think his first LP, Woodsmoke and Oranges, was one of the best singer-songwriter albums of all time.

Day 10: Judy Collins made several excellent LPs in the time period under consideration. Who Knows Where the Time Goes was, arguably, the finest.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

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--Mike Regenstreif