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/128/49293.html
Christine Lavin- On My Way to Hooterville (pt. 1)
On My Way to Hooterville (Christine Lavin)
Tom Rush- Urge for Going
Tom Rush Celebrates 50 Years of Music (Appleseed)
Steel Rail- Winter Wren
Coming Home (Crossties)
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Waltz Into Winter
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Sylvie Simmons- Keep Dancing
Blue on Blue (Compass)
John Fusco & The X-Road Riders- Applejack Brandy
John the Revelator (John Fusco)
Kim Wallach- Moonache and Heartlight
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)
Don Armstrong- Annabelle Teaching Her Daddy to Dance
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)
Dirk Powell featuring Sara Watkins- The Little Things
When I Wait for You (Compass)
Kelly's Lot- Foolish Try
Another Sky (Kelly Zirbes)
Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Carry a Tune
Shadow of the Cyclone (Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt)
Susan Pepper- The Prettiest Bird
The Prettiest Bird (Ballad Records)
Bella White- Just Like Leaving
Just Like Leaving (Isabel White)
Nina Ricci- Fare Thee Well
Fare Thee Well: A Joan Baez Tribute (Nina Ricci)
Doc & Merle Watson- Down Yonder
Songs Doc Didn’t Sing (FLI Records)
Extended Feature – Remembering Billie Holiday (1915-1959). The next 17 songs were all recorded by Billie Holiday at some point during the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.
Rosalie Sorrels- Falling in Love Again, Can’t Help It
Learned by Livin’, Sung by Heart (Way Out in Idaho)
Jackie Washington- Them There Eyes
The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)
Stringband- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
The Indispensable 1972-2002 (Nick)
Billie Holiday- Swing, Brother, Swing
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 8 (Columbia/Legacy)
Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- I Cried for You
I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)
Michael Jerome Browne- He Ain’t Got Rhythm
Drive On (Borealis)
Mose Scarlett with Ken Whiteley- It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
The Fundamental Things (Pyramid)
Billie Holiday- I Loves You Porgy
Lover Man (Decca)
Diana Krall- I Wished on the Moon
This Dream of You (Verve)
David Clayton-Thomas- Don’t Explain
Aurora (Justin Time)
Sneezy Waters- Solitude
Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)
Catherine Russell- I Cover the Waterfront
Bring It Back (Jazz Village)
Billie Holiday- Georgia On My Mind
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 9 (Columbia/Legacy)
Madeleine Peyroux- This is Heaven to Me
Careless Love (Rounder)
Oscar Brown, Jr..- God Bless the Child
The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)
Josh White- Strange Fruit
The Josh White Stories, Vols. I & II (Jasmine)
Billie Holiday- Billie’s Blues
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 2 (Columbia/Legacy)
In memory of inspiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020). Marc Nerenberg wrote “Ruth’s Blues” on September 19, the day after Justice Ginsburg passed away.
Marc Nerenberg- Ruth’s Blues
Unreleased song – used with permission
Penny Lang- Never Turning Back
Carry On Children (She-Wolf)
Tim Grimm- Gone
Gone – single (Vault)
Donal Hinely- Couldn’t Breathe
Diary of a Snowflake (Atom)
Iris DeMent- How Long
How Long – single (Flariella)
“I am a Typhus Louse” was written in a ghetto in Transnistria (now part of Moldavia and Ukraine) in 1942. It was recorded for a forthcoming project of pandemic songs by Yiddish Glory. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK8ERL5SSic to see the subtitles of the lyrics in English.
Yiddish Glory & The Payadora Tango Ensemble- I am a Typhus Louse
I am a Typhus Louse – single (Yiddish Glory)
Mike Craver- I Ain’t Dead Yet
Mould’s Undertaking (Sapsucker)
Matt Watroba- Will’s Will
The Si Kahn Funny Song Sing-Along Song Book (Matt Watroba)
Vance Gilbert- The Day Before November
Good Good Man (Disismye Music)
Bill Garrett- Thanksgiving Eve
Seems to Me (Borealis)
Ronny Cox- Bus to Baltimore
Live at the Kitchen Sink (Ronny Cox)
Josh White, Jr..- The Dutchman
Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)
Gathering Time- If You Could Read My Mind
Old Friends (Triple-G Records)
Matthew Alexander- Steel Rail Blues
Soul River (Caravan Records)
Gordon Lightfoot- Did She Mention My Name
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Shtreiml- Nigun Hachana
Har Meron (I.J. Rosenblatt)
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