Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 12, 2020


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

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/49004.html



Gathering Time- You Were On My Mind
Old Friends (Triple-G Records)

Turtle Grenade- Turn, Turn, Turn
Put Down That Weapon – Make Music Not War (Y&T Music)
Kronos Quartet w/Lee Knight- Which Side Are You On?
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)
Pete Seeger- Old Devil Time
Singalong, Sanders Theatre, 1980 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Beppe Gambetta- Wise Old Man/Forget About Me Not
Where the Wind Blows/Dove Tia O Vento (Borealis)
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton- Willie Moore
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton (Smithsonian Folkways)

Steel Rail- Once in a While
Coming Home (Crossties)
Lynn Miles- We’ll Look for Stars
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)
Rachelle Garniez- Frank Mills
Gone to Glory (StorySound)
Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- After You’ve Gone
I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)

Cris Cuddy- (Long and Lonesome) Old Freight Train
Concert at the Slab (Vanishing Castle)
Bill Garrett- Northshore Train
Bill Garrett (Borealis)
Boxcar Boys- Freight Train
Rye Whiskey (Fedora Upside Down)
Mountain City Four- Mean Old Frisco
Mountain City Four (Mountain City Four)
New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers- K.C. Moan
Volume 1 (Stony Plain)

Leonard Cohen- Tower of Song
I’m Your Man (Columbia)

Extended Feature – A Hundred Floors above in the Tower of Song: A Tribute to Hank Williams. Most of the next 20 songs were written by Hank Williams (“My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” is a traditional New Orleans song that he adapted). The fifth song in each of the four 5-song sets was inspired, in one way or another, by him.

Ranch Romance- Why Don’t You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)
Western Dream (Sugar Hill)
Rosanne Cash- Take These Chains from My Heart
The List (Manhattan)
Oh Susanna- You Win Again
Sleepy Little Sailor – Deluxe Edition (MVKA)
Hank Williams- Move It On Over
40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)
Kevin Head- Thanks Hank
Live (Kevin Head Music)
Hank Williams 1951

Robert Jones & Matt Watroba- Mind Your Own Business
Common Chords (Common Chords Records)
The Wailin' Jennys- Weary Blues from Waiting
Fifteen (True North)
Norah Jones- Cold, Cold Heart
Come Away with Me (Blue Note)
Hank Williams- Honky Tonk Blues
40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)
John Gorka- Hank Senior Moment
The Company You Keep (Red House)

Sneezy Waters- Jambalaya
Sneezy Waters Sings Hank Williams (Borealis)
Ball & Chain- I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Livin’
Trouble All the Time (Ball & Chain)
Leon Redbone- Your Cheatin’ Heart
From Branch to Branch (Emerald City)
Hank Williams- My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It
40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)
Tom Russell- Hank and Audrey
Museum of Memories 1972-2002 (Dark Angel)

Blue Velvet Band- Ramblin’ Man
Sweet Moments with the Blue Velvet Band (Warner Bros.)
Tim Williams- I Heard That Lonesome Blow
Sorrow Bound: Hank Williams Re-examined (Ruby Moon)
Jenny Reynolds- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Any Kind of Angel (Jenny Reynolds)
Hank Williams- Moanin’ the Blues
40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)
Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings- The Night Hank Williams Came to Town
Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)

Jamie Anderson- Six Feet Away
Songs from Home (Jamie Anderson)
Lorin Sklamberg & Polina Shepherd w/A Besere Velt Yiddish Chorus- Kh’hob dem kheyshek (I am willing)
150 Voices (Lorin Sklamberg & Polina Shepherd)
Lara Herscovitch- Now Hear This
Highway Philosophers (Lara Herscovitch)

Jesse Winchester, the self-titled debut album by my late friend Jesse Winchester, was released 50 years ago. The next four songs mark that milestone.

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
James Taylor- Payday
Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester (Mailboat)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Emmylou Harris- Skip Rope Song
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)



Blind Boys of Alabama- Pray for Peace
Almost Home (BBOA)
Bettye LaVette- Strange Fruit
Blackbirds (Verve)
Ronnie Earle & The Broadcasters- Blues for George Floyd
Rise Up (Stony Plain)
Mike Glick- We Shall Be Free
Alternative Facts & Other White Lies (Generations Music)

Jane Godfrey- The Moon Tonight
Imagine We Have Wings (Jane Godfrey)
VickiKristinaBarcelona- God’s Away on Business
Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)
Jim Wurster- For What It’s Worth
Put Down That Weapon – Make Music Not War (Y&T Music)
Brian Blain- Water Song
I’m Not Fifty Anymore (Brian Blain)

David Broza- Saturday Morning
En Casa Limón (S-Curve)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 10.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif


--Mike Regenstreif