Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 31, 2021: Remembering Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53257.html

Theme: Remembering Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)

Nanci Griffith – a superb and influential singer, songwriter and performer – died on August 13th at age 68. The show includes some of Nanci’s recordings, some of her collaborations with other artists, and some of her songs performed by other artists.

Nanci Griffith- There’s a Light Beyond These Woods
There’s a Light Beyond These Woods (Philo)

Nanci Griffith- Julie Anne
Poet In My Window (Philo)
Kathy Mattea- Love at the Five & Dime
Walk the Way the Wind Blows (Mercury)
Nanci Griffith- Daddy Said
Once In a Very Blue Moon (Philo)

It's been a long time since I’d seen her or been in touch, but Nanci and I were close in the 1980s when she came to Montreal frequently to play concerts at The Golem, the folk club I was then running. She'd always stay with me and we had some great times. One day she wrote the song, “Banks of the Pontchartrain,” in my apartment.

Nanci Griffith- Banks of the Pontchartrain
The Last of the True Believers (Philo)
Tom Russell & Nanci Griffith- St. Olav’s Gate
The Long Way Around (HighTone)
Suzy Bogguss- Outbound Plane
Aces (EMI)

Nanci Griffith- Time Alone
Once In a Very Blue Moon (Philo)

Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie- Tecumseh Valley
Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)
Nanci Griffith- Up Against the Rain
The Loving Kind (Rounder)

Nanci Griffith- Ten Degrees and Colder
Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)
Nanci Griffith- You Were On My Mind
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Nanci Griffith & Tom Russell- Summer Wages
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Nanci Griffith & Ian Tyson- Canadian Whiskey
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Jimmy Buffett & Nanci Griffith- Someone I Used to Love
License to Chill (Mailboat)

Caroline Doctorow- Trouble In the Fields
Trouble In the Fields: An Artists’ Tribute to Nanci Griffith (Paradiddle)
Red Molly- Lookin’ for the Time
Trouble In the Fields: An Artists’ Tribute to Nanci Griffith (Paradiddle)
The Kennedys- I’m Not Drivin’ These Wheels
Trouble In the Fields: An Artists’ Tribute to Nanci Griffith (Paradiddle)
Nanci Griffith- Hell No (I’m Not Alright)
Intersection (Hell No)

Nanci Griffith with The London Symphony Orchestra- Late Night Grande Hotel
The Dust Bowl Symphony (Elektra)
Emmylou Harris & Willie Nelson- Gulf Coast Highway
Duets (Reprise)
Nanci Griffith with Carolyn Hester- Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound
Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)
Lucy Kaplansky- I Wish It Would Rain
Everyday Street (Lucy Kaplansky)
Nanci Griffith- The Wing and the Wheel
The Last of the True Believers (Philo)

Nanci Griffith- Spin On a Red Brick Floor
One Fair Summer Evening (MCA)

Next week: A Tribute to The Everly Brothers

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 24, 2021

 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53196.html

Theme: Rare Collaborations – each song features artists collaborating with an artist or artists they don’t or didn’t usually work with.

The Band & The Staple Singers- The Weight
The Last Waltz (Capitol)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III- Green Green Rocky Road
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand- Paper of Pins
The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)
Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips- I Remember Loving You
Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)
Eric Bibb & Odetta- ‘Tain’t Such a Much
Friends (Telarc)
Perla Batalla & David Hidalgo- Ballad of the Absent Mare
Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers- Study War No More (Down By the Riverside)
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Stringband & Stan Rogers- Tugboats
The Indispensable 1972-2002 (Nick)
Tom Russell & Iris DeMent- Big Water
The Long Way Around (HighTone)
Kimmie Rhodes & Townes Van Zandt- I’m Gonna Fly
West Texas Heaven (Justice)
Josh White, Jr. & Guthrie Thomas- Don’t Mean a Thing
Delicate Balance (Silverwolf)
Dave Alvin & Christy McWilson- Here in California
West of the West (Yep Roc)

Odetta & Dr. John- Please Send Me Someone to Love
Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee & Chris Barber's Jazz Band- Betty and Dupree
London, 1958 (Jasmine)
Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble & Martha Wainwright- There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears
Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke (Edge Music)
Members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra & B.B. King- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
The Stereophonic Sound of Duke Ellington (Bright Orange)

Dave Van Ronk & Christine Lavin- Two Sleepy People
Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)
Michael Jerome Browne & Roxane Potvin- Remember When
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Big Daddy Wilson & Shaneeka Simon- Meatballs
Hard Time Blues (Continental Blue Heaven)

Woody Guthrie & Lead Belly (1940s)

Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry & Cisco Houston- We Shall Be Free
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown- From Here On In
Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)
Tom Rush, Arlo Guthrie, Eric Andersen & Judy Collins- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Judy Collins Wildflower Festival (Wildflower)

Connie Kaldor & Roy Forbes- Saskatoon Moon
Wood River (Coyote)

Next week: Remembering Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 17, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53131.html

Theme: 50 Years On – Music from my high school years (1967-1971)

I graduated from high school in Montreal in June of 1971 just over 50 years ago. All of the recordings on this show were originally on LPs released during my high school years and that I bought while I was a high school student.

Bob Dylan- All Along the Watchtower
John Wesley Harding (Columbia/Legacy)
Joan Baez- Love is Just a Four-Letter Word
Any Day Now (Vanguard)
Leonard Cohen- Suzanne
Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)
Judy Collins- Sisters of Mercy
Wildflowers (Elektra)

Tom Paxton- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song
Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)
Gordon Lightfoot- Did She Mention My Name
Did She Mention My Name (United Artists)
Peter, Paul & Mary- Reason to Believe
Late Again (Warner Bros.)
Tim Hardin- Lady Came from Baltimore
Tim Hardin 3 Live in Concert (Polydor)

Arlo Guthrie- Highway in the Wind
Alice’s Restaurant (Reprise)

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Paul Siebel- Then Came the Children
Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)
Otis Redding- (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
The Dock of the Bay (Atco)
Rosalie Sorrels- One More Next Time
If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)
Grateful Dead- Ripple
American Beauty (Warner Bros.)

John Hartford- Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)
Ian & Sylvia- Truckers Café
Great Speckled Bird (Stony Plain)
Buffy Sainte-Marie- I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again
I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (Vanguard)
Linda Ronstadt- He Dark the Sun
Silk Purse (Capitol)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bruce Cockburn- Going to the Country
Bruce Cockburn (True North)
Bill Staines- Happiness Is
Somebody Blue (Champlain)
Paul Geremia- Travelin’ Man
Just Enough (Folkways)

Dave Van Ronk- Clouds (From Both Sides Now)
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters (Verve Forecast)
Joni Mitchell- That Song About the Midway
Clouds (Reprise)
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James (Warner Bros.)

The Band- Stage Fright
Stage Fright (Capitol)

Next week: Rare Collaborations

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 14, 2021

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/128/53107.html

Atlantic Union- A Town This Size
The Whole Dance (Blue Island)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

Lucy Kaplansky- Cowboy Singer
The Red Thread (Red House)
Tracy Grammer- Mother, I Climbed
Flowers of Avalon (Signature Sounds)
Ronny Cox- When I Go
Ronny Cox Live (Ronny Cox)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- The Power and the Glory
Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)
Julie Felix- Gentle Arms of Eden
Rock Me Goddess (Remarkable)

Henry Thomas- Fishing Blues
Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 (Yazoo)
Taj Mahal- Ain’t Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo’)
The Real Thing (Columbia/Legacy)
Kate Taylor- He Caught the Katy
Why Wait! (Red House)
Tom Rush- Sister Kate
Blues, Songs and Ballads (Fantasy)

Orit Shimoni- It All Comes Round Again
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)
Al Grierson- Man of Steel
The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)

New Earth- Papardom
World Music from Canada’s West Coast (Blue Island)

Diana Jones- Mama Hold Your Baby
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)
Jackson Browne- The Dreamer
Downhill from Everywhere (Inside Recordings)
Joni Mitchell- Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)

Michael Johnathon- The Painter
The Painter (PoetMan)
Anne Hills- My Daughter and Vincent Van Gogh
Points of View (Appleseed)
Priscilla Herdman- Vincent
Into the Stars (Stardreamer Music)

Pete Seeger

Kronos Quartet with Lee Knight- Step By Step
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)
Pete Seeger- The Water is Wide
Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)
Reggie Harris- High Over the Hudson
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Perla Batalla- Came So Far for Beauty
Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)
Leonard Cohen- The Goal
Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)
Soweto Gospel Choir- Hallelujah
Freedom (Shanachie)
Robin & Linda Williams- Tower of Song
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)

Gina Forsyth- St. Ann’s Reel
Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales (Waterbug)

Allison Russell- The Runner
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Allison Russell- Hy-Brasil
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Ana Egge- Lie Lie Lie
Between Us (StorySound)
Rob Lutes- By and By
Come Around (Lucky Bear)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- The Murder of Leo Frank
The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Drought Year
Ace Pickin’ and Sweet Harmony (Arabica)
Tom Northcott- The Rainmaker
Sunny Goodge Street: The Warner Bros. Recordings (Wounded Bird)
Colleen Kattau- When’s It Gonna Rain
So Much Going On (Windlight Studios)

Murray McLauchlan- If You’re Out There Jesus
Hourglass (True North)
Annie Gallup- Forget Me Not
Oh Everything (Galway Bay Music)
Joy Zimmerman- Where Will You Stand
The Canvas Before Us (Joy Zimmerman Music)

Jay Linden- August Night
Satchel (Jay Linden)
The Lucky Sisters- On an August Night
So Lucky (Patio)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band- August Nights
That’s It (Legacy)

Adeline- Josie-O
Adeline (Owl)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 11. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 10, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53007.html

Theme: The Legacy of Stan Rogers: A postage stamp celebration

My friend Stan Rogers was already one of Canada’s greatest folksingers and songwriters when he died tragically at the young age of 33 on June 2, 1983. On July 21, Canada Post issued a postage stamp honouring Stan Rogers and his contributions to Canadian folk music.

Stan Rogers- Barrett’s Privateers
Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Paul Mills- 45 Years
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)
Dave Fry- Giant
Troubadour (Dave Fry)
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Make and Break Harbour
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Stan Rogers- Fogarty’s Cove
Fogarty’s Cove (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Tom Lewis- Northwest Passage
Poles Apart (Self-Propelled Music)

Stan Rogers- Plenty of Hornpipe
Fogarty’s Cove (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Lui Collins- Second Effort
Baptism of Fire (Green Linnet)
Priscilla Herdman- Turnaround
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)
Laura Smith- Song of the Candle
Remembering Stan Rogers: An East Coast Tribute (Brookes Diamond Productions)
Stan Rogers- The Jeannie C.
Turnaround (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

John Gorka- Lock-keeper
Writing in the Margins (Red House)
Short Sisters- Tiny Fish for Japan
Live from Four States (Black Socks Press)
Stan Rogers- White Squall
From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Stan Rogers- The Field Behind the Plow
Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Priscilla Herdman- Lies
Seasons of Change (Flying Fish)
Garnet Rogers- Sailor’s Rest
Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)
Stan Rogers- The Mary Ellen Carter
Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Ofra Harnoy- Barrett’s Privateers
On the Rock (Analekta)

Next week: Music from my high school years: 1967-1971

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--Mike Regenstreif