Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 17, 2022: These Songs are for the Birds

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/595/56250.html

Theme: These Songs are for the Birds.

Some of these songs are literal in their avian imagery. Some are metaphorical.

Bruce Cockburn- For the Birds
Sunwheel Dance: Deluxe Edition (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Mike Stevens & Polly Harris- Like a Little Bird
Breathe In the World Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain)
Don Armstrong- Hey Little Bird
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)
Marc Nerenberg- Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song
Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)
Happy & Artie Traum- Golden Bird
Happy and Artie Traum (Capitol)
Judy Henske- High Flying Bird
The Elektra Albums (Ace)

Lynn Miles- All the Birds
Black Flowers Vol. 4 (Lynn Miles)
Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- Swans Upon the Avon
Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus Music)
Finest Kind- I Heard the Bluebird Sing
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Bill Staines- This Song is for the Birds
Third Time Around (Catfish)

Kim Wallach- Settle In (Chatter of the Finches)
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)
Vanessa Lively- I am a Skylark
Truth Is (Animada)
Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Skylark
Martha Sings & Robert Plays (Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik)
Perla Batalla- Cucurrucucu Paloma
Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Redwinged Blackbird
Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)
Ian Tamblyn- The Birds
Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)
Julie Felix- The Heron
Rock Me Goddess (Remarkable)
Sneezy Waters- Bird of Paradise
A Letter Home (Sneezy Waters)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Brian QTN- To Be Done
OsculEARiosophy (Brian QTN)
Anya Hinkle- My Faithful Sparrow
Eden and Her Borderlands (Organic)
Michael Smith- We Become Birds
Love Letter on a Fish (Tales from the Tavern)

Diana Jones- Love Song to a Bird
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)
Tom Russell- Wild Geese
Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)
Last Forever- The Nightingale’s Song
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Natalie MacMaster- The Golden Eagle
Sketches (Linus)

Next week: More Songs of Bob Dylan.

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--Mike Regenstreif