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