Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 5, 2021: Songs of Autumn

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/595/53657.html

Theme: Songs of Autumn

Martin Simpson- October Song
Home Recordings (Topic)

David Mallett- Autumn
This Town (Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia- Changes
Play One More (Vanguard)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt- Who Knows Where the Time Goes
We are Welcomed (Pragmavision)

Terry Tufts- October Gold
Two Nights Solo (Borealis)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- My Bonny
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- White Swans and Black/Grey October Clouds
Two for the Early Dew (Shanachie)
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Waltz Into Winter
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Joni Mitchell- Urge for Going
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett- Thanksgiving Eve
Seems to Me (Borealis)
Nanci Griffith- October Reasons
Poet In My Window (Philo)
Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade- There Used to Be Horses Here
There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)
Nina Ricci- Goodbye Sandals, Hello Boots
Goodbye Sandals, Hello Boots – single (Nina Ricci)

Eva Cassidy- Autumn Leaves
Simply Eva (Blix Street)
John McCutcheon- Finally
Bucket List (Appalseed)
Sharon Goldman- Lone Black Crow
Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)
Steel Rail- Winter Wren
Coming Home (Crossties)
Vance Gilbert- The Day Before November
Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

David Broza- Autumn Longing
En Casa Limón (S-Curve)

Next week: Drinking Songs

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 28, 2021: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong

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/595/53586.html

Theme: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

All the songs on this show were recorded by Louis Armstrong sometime between 1926 and 1968.

Louis Armstrong (circa 1930)

Louis Armstrong- Where the Blues Were Born in New Orleans
Memories of New Orleans (Saga Jazz)

Jackie Washington & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Jackie Washington- All of Me
The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)
Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- After You’ve Gone
I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)
Hotcha!- Ol’ Man Mose
Dust Bowl Roots: Songs for the New Depression (Hotcha!)
Durham County Poets- St. James Infirmary
Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)
Louis Armstrong & Edmond Hall- My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It
The Great Chicago Concert 1956 (Columbia/Legacy)

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy- Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
Louie Louie Louie (Savoy Jazz)

Eartha Kitt with Shorty Rogers & His Giants- Hesitating Blues
St. Louis Blues (RCA)
Nat King Cole- Yellow Dog Blues
St. Louis Blues (Capitol)
Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton- Loveless Love
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia/Legacy)

Catherine Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Catherine Russell- Back O’ Town Blues
Cat (World Village)
Mose Scarlett- Sweet Georgia Brown
The Fundamental Things (Pyramid)
Billy Novick’s Blue SyncopatorsS- Wild Man Blues
Music from The Great Gatsby (Billy Novick)
Roberta Donnay & The Prohibition Mob Band- I’m a Ding Dong Daddy (from Dumas)
My Heart Belongs to Satchmo (Blujazz)
Louis Armstrong & Trummy Young- Now You Has Jazz
Armstrong Comes Alive (Jazz2Jazz)

Mike Regenstreif & Loudon Wainwright III (2015)

Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks- You Rascal You
I’d Rather Lead a Band (Search Party)
Wynton Marsalis- Tiger Rag
Bolden: Music from the Original Soundtrack (Blue Engine)
Kermit Ruffins- When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
We Partyin’ Traditional Style! (Basin Street)
Louis Armstrong- Down By the Riverside
Louis and the Good Book (Verve)

Dave Van Ronk- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)
Priscilla Herdman- What a Wonderful World
Daydreamer (Music for Little People)
Louis Armstrong- When the Saints Go Marching In
The Great Chicago Concert 1956 (Columbia/Legacy)

Louis Armstrong- Dr. Jazz
Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jellyroll (Audio Fidelity)

Next week: Songs of Autumn

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 21, 2021: Relatively Speaking

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/595/53515.html

Theme: Relatively Speaking

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Woody Guthrie- Ramblin’ Round
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
Arlo Guthrie- Pretty Boy Floyd
Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Folksong
Folksong (RTE 8)
Annie GuthrieE- Packin’ Light
Dragonfly (Rising Son)
Folk Uke- California Stars
Starfucker (Folk Uke)
Willie Nelson- One More Song to Write
Ride Me Back Home (Legacy)

Tim Grimm- Down the Road
Heart Land Again (Vault)
Jackson Grimm- Katie Did Holler
Sober Again (Vault)

Doc & Merle Watson- Windy & Warm
Songs Doc Didn’t Sing (FLI)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- My Town
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Rufus Wainwright- Going to a Town
Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright (Interscope)
Martha Wainwright- Falaise de Malaise
Love Will Be Reborn (Peremone)
Sloan Wainwright- (I Love the Folks in) My Hometown
Bright Side of a Rainy Day (Sloan Wainwright)
Loudon Wainwright III- Older Than My Old Man Now
Older Than My Old Man Now (StorySound)
Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche- I Can Still Hear You
I Can Still Hear You (StorySound)
Maggie & Terre Roche- Malachy’s
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Peter Yarrow- Tall Pine Trees
Peter (Warner Bros.)
Bethany & Rufus- 900 Miles
900 Miles (Hyena)

Short Sisters- Snow, Snow
A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)
Pete Seeger- Old Devil Time
Singalong, Sanders Theatre, 1980 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Last Forever- Dillard Chandler
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)
Mike Seeger- Freight Train
True Vine (Smithsonian Folkways)
Peggy Seeger- Gotta Get Home by Midnight
First Farewell (Red Grape Music)

James Taylor- Wandering
Gorilla (Warner Bros.)
Kate Taylor- (You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am
Why Wait! (Red House)
Livingston Taylor- Good Friends
The Best of Live: 50 Years of Livingston Taylor (Whistling Dog Music)

Next week: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 14, 2021: Strange Songs and Stranger Songs

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/595/53440.html

Theme: Strange Songs and Stranger Songs

Hans Theessink- Wayfaring Stranger
Wishing Well (Blue Groove)

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- Hello Stranger
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)
Ian & Sylvia- Come In, Stranger
Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)
Kim Wallach- The Stranger
The House Between the Tracks (Black Socks Press)
Gordon Lightfoot- Sit Down Young Stranger
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Catherine MacLellan- Don’t Call Me Stranger
The Raven’s Sun (Catherine MacLellan)
Robin & Linda Williams- Don’t Let Me Come Home a Stranger
Stonewall Country: Songs from the Musical (Red House)

Duke Ellington- Stranger On the Shore
Ellington ’65 (Reprise)

Bettye LaVette- Strange Fruit
Blackbirds (Verve)
Chris White- Strange Emotion
Inner Voice (Chris White)
Catherine Russell- Strange as it Seems
Bring It Back (Jazz Village)

Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)
Marianne Faithfull- Strange Weather
Strange Weather (Island)
Pat Moore & The Vinyl Frontier- Strange
Take It to Heart (Pat Moore)
k.d. lang & the reclines- Diet of Strange Places
Angel with a Lariat (Sire)

Michael Jerome Browne, Mike Regenstreif, Eric Bibb (2005)

Leonard Cohen- The Stranger Song
Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Stranger Here
Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)
Michael Jerome Browne & Eric Bibb- Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Josh White, Jr..- Say a Prayer for a Stranger
Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)

Over the Moon- Strangers We Meet
Over the Moon (Over the Moon)
Greg Kelly- Talking to Strangers
Ghosts (Greg Kelly)
Tom Waits & Bette Midler- I Never Talk to Strangers
Foreign Affairs (Elektra) or Broken Blossom (Atlantic)
Tom Russell- Common Strangers
Midway to Bayamon (Frontera)

Dakota Dave Hull- Wayfaring Stranger
Heavenly Hope (Arabica)

Next week: Relatively Speaking

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 11, 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/128/53398.html

Jackson Browne- A Little Soon to Say
Downhill from Everywhere (Inside Recordings)

Lynne Hanson- Hold My Breath
Hold My Breath – single (Lynne Hanson)
Orit Shimoni- Maybe Tomorrow
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)
Cosy Sheridan- It’s Gonna Get Better
A Beautiful Sound (Cosy Sheridan)
Sloan Wainwright- Bright Side of a Rainy Day
Bright Side of a Rainy Day (Sloan Wainwright)
John McCutcheon- Bucket List
Bucket List (Appalseed)

Terri Hendrix- Little Bird
Pilgrim’s Progress: Project 5.5 (Wilory)
Roy Forbes- The Beating of Your Very Own Heart
Edge of Blue (AKA)
Efrat- Fade Away
We Just Need Love (Efrat)
Sons of the Never Wrong- No One Only You
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (circa 1994)

Tom Paxton- Deep Fork River
How Come the Sun/Tom Paxton EP (BGO)
Deborah Robins- Tell Old Bill
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)
Al Grierson- The Illumination of Judge Roy Bean
The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)
Mississippi John Hurt- Stack O’Lee
Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)
Robin & Linda Williams- Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)

Gypsy Rox- Papirosen
A Fiddler in Every Port (Ky Hote)

Logan English- Wild Bill Jones
Kentucky Folk Songs and Ballads (Folkways)
Scott Alarik- Logan English
-30- Folk Songs Old and New (Scott Alarik)
Bill Staines- Going Back Where the Wheatfields Wave
Miles (Mineral River)

Jackson Grimm- I Drink
Sober Again (Vault)
Mary Gauthier- Good-Bye
Filth & Fire (D7)
Crowes Pasture- Mercy Now
Slow It Down (Crowes Pasture)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Lucy Kaplansky- Everybody Knows but Me
The Tide (Red House)
Tom Rush- Biloxi
Tom Rush/Wrong End of the Rainbow (BGO)
Jesse Winchester- Dangerous Fun
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- My Songbird
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Defying Gravity
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Anne Hills & Michael Smith- Paterson Summer
Paradise Lost and Found (Red Wing)
Steel Rail- That’s How the Summer Slips Away
River Song (Crossties)
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Summer’s End
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
David Francey- Far End of Summer
Far End of Summer (Laker)

Oscar Peterson- Night Train
Night Train (Verve)

Sharon Goldman- Tuesday Morning Sun
Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)
Stuart Kabak- Towers of Love
Towers of Love – single (Stuart Kabak)
Kim & Reggie Harris- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child/Short Shift at Ground Zero
Simplicity (Appleseed)
Noa- Look at Me
Letters to Bach (Naïve)

Yiddish Glory- Yom Kippur Without Fascists
Yom Kippur Without Fascists – single (Six Degrees)
Birds On a Wire- Who By Fire
Ramages (Pias)
Tzimmes- Biy-mei Hayai
The Road Never Travelled (Big Tzimmes Productions)

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi (2015)

Shawna Caspi- Wait Love
Hurricane Coming (Shawna Caspi)
Ana Egge- The Machine
Between Us (StorySound)
Finny McConnell- Atlantic City
The Dark Streets of Love (True North)

Tom Russell- The Santa Fe at Midnight
Borderland (HighTone)
Kate Taylor- Why Wait!
Why Wait! (Red House)
VickiKristinaBarcelona- I’ll Be Gone
Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Sue Foley- Okie Dokie Stomp
Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 9. 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 September 7, 2021: A Tribute to The Everly Brothers

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/595/53344.html

Theme: A Tribute to The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers – Phil Everly, who died in 2014 at age 74, and Don Everly, who died on August 21st at age 84 – were a highly influential duo whose music encompassed rock ‘n’ roll, country and folk music. All the songs on this show were recorded, at one time or another, by The Everly Brothers.

The Everly Brothers- This Little Girl of Mine
Cadence Classics: Their 20 Greatest Hits (Rhino)

Madeleine Peyroux- Bye Bye Love
The Blue Room (Decca)
Simon & Garfunkel- Wake Up Little Susie
The Concert in Central Park (Warner Bros.)
Kate Brislin & Katy Moffatt- Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights (Rounder)
The Persuasions- All I Have to Do is Dream
Good News (Rounder)
The Everly Brothers- Sweet Dreams
Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. 1960 to 1969 (Warner Archives)

Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris- Love Hurts
Grievous Angel (Reprise)
Linda Ronstadt- When Will I Be Loved
Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol)
The Everly Brothers- (‘Til) I Kissed You
Cadence Classics: Their 20 Greatest Hits (Rhino)

Andy Hedges- Roving Gambler
Cowboy Songster (Yellowhouse)
Ian & Sylvia- Down By the Willow Garden
Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)
Tim Grimm & Carrie Newcomer- Barbara Allen
Names (Wind River)
Billie Joe + Norah- Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
Foreverly (Reprise)
The Everly Brothers- I’m Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (Rhino)

Nanci Griffith- Walk Right Back
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
The Everly Brothers- On the Wings of a Nightingale
EB 84 (Mercury)

John Sebastian- Stories We Could Tell
Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino)
The Everly Brothers- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Stories We Could Tell (RCA)
Jesse Winchester- Bowling Green
Seem Like Only Yesterday: Live in Montreal 1976 (Real Gone Music)

Kate Brislin & Katy Moffatt- So Sad
Sleepless Nights (Rounder)
Roberta Flack- Let It Be Me
Chapter Two (Atlantic)
Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris- Brand New Heartache
Sleepless Nights (A&M)
Doc Watson- Bird Dog
Docabilly (Sugar Hill)
The Everly Brothers- I’m Movin’ On
Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. 1960 to 1969 (Warner Archives)

The Everly Brothers- Asleep
EB 84 (Mercury)

Next week: Strange Songs and Stranger Songs

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--Mike Regenstreif