Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 2, 2022: The Legacy of Johnny Cash

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57120.html

Theme: The Legacy of Johnny Cash.

In my opinion, Johnny Cash – who died in 2003 at age 71 and who drew on folk music, blues and rockabilly influences – was the single greatest figure in country music history. On this show, we’ll hear a few of Johnny Cash’s recordings and some songs from his repertoire performed by other artists.

Johnny Cash- I Walk the Line
Classic Cash (Mercury)

Johnny Cash- Red Velvet
The Man in Black, 1963-1969, Plus (Bear Family)
Ian & Sylvia- Come in Stranger
Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)
Johnny Cash- Four Strong Winds
American V: A Hundred Highways (American Recordings)
Ian & Sylvia- Big River
Movin’ On 1967-1968 (Mercury)

Rosanne Cash- Tennessee Flat Top Box
King’s Record Shop (Columbia)
John Stewart- Get Rhythm
Airdream Believer (Shanachie)
Johnny Cash- W. Lee O’Daniel (and the Light Crust Dougboys)
Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)
Fred Holstein- Folsom Prison Blues
Live at the Earl of Old Town (Holstein)

Johnny Cash- Veteran’s Day
Wounded Heart of America (Tom Russell Songs) (HighTone)
Tom Russell- Wreck of the Old 97
October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)
Norah Jones- Cry, Cry, Cry
The Fall: Deluxe Edition (Blue Note)
Roy Forbes- I Still Miss Someone
Some Tunes for that Mother of Mine (AKA)

Johnny Cash- Joshua Gone Barbados
Johnny 99 (Columbia)
Brendan Nolan- The Forty Shades of Green
Live at the Side Door (Ould Segosha)
Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Sheryl Crow- Flesh and Blood
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash (Lucky Dog)
Johnny Cash- If You Could Read My Mind
American V: A Hundred Highways (American Recordings)

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash- Girl from the North Country
Travelin’ Thru: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15, 1967-1969 (Columbia Legacy)
Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash- It Ain’t Me Babe

Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (Columbia/Legacy)
Bob Dylan- Train of Love
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash (Lucky Dog)
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash- Guess Things Happen That Way
Travelin’ Thru: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15, 1967-1969 (Columbia Legacy)

Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash- Jackson
The Legend of Johnny Cash (American Recordings)
Shel Silverstein- Boy Named Sue
Boy Named Sue and His Other Country Songs (Water)
Kris Kristofferson- Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)
Johnny Cash- Bird on a Wire
American Recordings (American Recordings)

Next week: “Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday July 30, 2022

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). 

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. 

This week’s show was hosted by Mike Regenstreif.

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

This show was recorded and is already available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/57073.html

Guest: Lenka Lichtenberg.

Me & My Uncle- Me and My Uncle
Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus Music)
OXLIP- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (World Peach)
Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)
El Coyote- Satellite Lost
El Coyote (El Coyote)
Kim Beggs- They Shut the Greyhound Down
Steel and Wool (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)
Over the Moon- Someday Soon
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Tom Russell- Short Grass
Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)
Ian & Sylvia- Four Rode By
The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)
Ken Whiteley- Farewell to Nova Scotia
Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)
Conklin Céilí Band- Giant
A Three Legged Stool (Conklin Céilí Band)
Stan Rogers- Cliffs of Baccalieu
For the Family (Folk Tradition)

Ian Robb with Finest Kind- The Mary Ellen Carter
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Ball and Chain & The Wreckers- I’m All Alone
Surrender (Ball and Chain)
Durham County Poets- Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)

Boxcar Bos- Sidecar
Rye Whiskey (Fedora Upside Down)

The next five songs punctuated my conversation with Lenka Lichtenberg. The songs on Lenka’s new album, Thieves of Dreams, are settings of poems written by Anna Hana Friesová, her maternal grandmother, while she was a prisoner in the Terezin concentration camp in what was then Czechoslovakia during the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Lenka Lichtenberg- Miracles
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- That monster, custom
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- What is this place?
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Run, run, you little human
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg with Jana Renée Friesová- I have my own grief

Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lisa Null passed away from cancer at age 79 on July 19.

Lisa Null- I’m Going Home to Georgia
Legacies (Folk-Legacy)
Bruce Cockburn- One Day I Walk
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)
Stephen Mendel- The Parting Glass
Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces next on August 27. I also host Stranger Songs every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm; and the Saturday Morning show from 7 to 10 am, once every 4 weeks with my next slot on August 13th.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 26, 2022: On the Road Again

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57040.html

Theme: “On the Road Again” – songs about roads and highways, songs about leaving and songs about getting there.

Tom Rush- On the Road Again
Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Nat King Cole- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
The Extraordinary Nat King Cole (Capitol)
Jimmy LaFave- Rt. 66 One More Time
Highway Angels…Full Moon Rain (Night Tribe Music)
Joni Mitchell- Born to Take the Highway
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Six Days of Paper Ladies
Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Eliza Gilkyson- Wanderin’
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Lynn Miles- My Road
Downpour (Lynn Miles)
Tom Russell- The Road It Gives, The Road It Takes Away
Borderland (HighTone)

Anne Hills- Follow That Road
Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)
Judy Mayhan- Morning and an Oldsmobile
Judy Mayhan (Decca)

Eve Goldberg & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Eve Goldberg- Travelling Day
Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie)
Caroline Doctorow- Northfield
I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin (Narrow Lane)
Stan Rogers- Down the Road
From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)
Doug McArthur- Skyway
Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Lucy Kaplansky- Ford Econoline
Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)
Rosalie Sorrels- Nevada Moon
Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)
Steel Rail- If By Midnight
Coming Home (Crossties)

David Francey- Highway 95
The Waking Hour (Jericho Beach Music)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Highway 80 (She’s a Mighty Good Road)
Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)
Hank Snow- I’ve Been Everywhere
I’ve Been Everywhere (RCA)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Senses of Your Leave
Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)
Jesse Winchester- Midnight Bus
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Charlie Musselwhite- My Road Lies in Darkness
Mississippi Sun (Alligator)
Danny Marks- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Cities in Blue (Danny Marks)

Boxcar Boys- On the Road to Cluj
Rye Whiskey (Fedora Upside Down)

Next week: The Legacy of Johnny Cash.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 19, 2022: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 2 – “New” Songs from the Archives

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56977.html

Theme: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 2 – “New” Songs from the Archives.

In the 1990s, Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s daughter who was then maintaining the Woody Guthrie Archives, discovered the lyrics to literally thousands of songs that Woody Guthrie wrote that he never set to music or whose tunes were never recorded and lost. Nora began to distribute sets of lyrics to contemporary musicians she thought would bring these songs to life. On this show, we’re listening to some of those songs.

Visit https://www.woodyguthrie.org/ for more information on Woody Guthrie.

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Folksong
Folksong (RTE 8)

Billy Bragg & Wilco- Walt Whitman’s Niece
Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
Folk Uke- California Stars
Starfucker (Folk Uke)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Little Blue Egg (Red House)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Birds and Ships
Postcards (Community Music)

The Del McCoury Band- The New York Trains
Del and Woody (McCoury Music)
Ellis Paul & Vance Gilbert- This Morning I am Born Again
Side of the Road (Philo)

The Klezmatics- Mermaid’s Avenue
Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)
Lisa Gutkin- Gonna Get Through This World
From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)
Wenzel- I Don’t Feel at Home on the Bowery No More
Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik)
Jonatha Brooke- Madonna on the Curb
The Works (Bad Dog)

Mike Regenstreif, Nora Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson & Jimmy LaFave talking about Woody Guthrie at the 2007 Ottawa Folk Festival

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven
2020 (Red House)
Jimmy LaFave- Peace Town
Peace Town (Music Road)
Janis Ian- I Hear You Sing Again
Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection (Rude Girl)
Corey Harris- Teabag Blues
Greens from the Garden (Alligator)

John McCutcheon- Old Cap Moore
This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America (Appalsongs)
Madeleine Peyroux & Rob Wasserman- Wild Card in the Hole
Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429)
Joel Rafael Band- Dance a Little Longer
Woodeye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (Inside Recordings)
Lucinda Williams- House of Earth
Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)

Arlo Guthrie- My Peace
Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Next week: On the Road Again.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 16, 2022

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. 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 recorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/56926.html

Tom Chapin- Woody Guthrie’s Dream
Hold Our Ground (Sundance Music)

The next 13 songs are a tribute to Ian & Sylvia’s self-titled debut album, released 60 years ago.

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Rocks and Gravel
Blues Stories (Big City Blues)
Tom Russell- Old Blue
Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- C.C. Rider
Working Man Blues (Sunset Blvd.)
Ken Whiteley- Un Canadien Errant
Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)
Kathy Kallick with Annie Stainec- Handsome Molly
What are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak)
Karen James- Mary-Anne
Through Streets Broad and Narrow (Folkways)
Ian & Sylvia- Pride of Petrovar
Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Harry Belafonte- Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
The Midnight Special (RCA)
Odetta- Rambler Gambler
One Grain of Sand (Vanguard)
Dodi Kallick- Down in the Willow Garden
What are They Doing in Heaven Today? (Live Oak)
Ian & Sylvia- Got No More Home Than a Dog
Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)
Steven Palmer- When First Unto This Country
Morning Road (Steven Palmer)
Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks- Live Humble
Volume 1 (Gallo)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Souvenir
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)
Pharis & Jason Romero- Been All Around This World
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

David Olney with Daniel Seymour- Love Is
Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I (Strictly Country)
Jack Williams- If My Eyes Were Blind
A Tickle in My Soul (Wind River)
David Olney with Daniel Seymour- Rex’s Blues
Nevermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions II (Strictly Country)
Brigid Mae Power- I’ll Be Here in the Morning
Burning Your Light (Fire)
Townes Van Zandt- To Live is to Fly
Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos (Omnivore)

Anne Hills- Romeo and Juliet
Points of View (Appleseed)
Marc Nerenberg- The Tragedy of Lear
On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)
Alistair Brown- Hamlet
No Idle Jest (Prospect)

Ellis Paul- When Angels Fall
When Angels Fall – single (Rosella)
Magpie- What If, No Matter
A Tiding (Longtail)
The Advocate Collective (Aaron Parnell Brown, Andy Rogovin, Beth Wood, Crys Matthews, Danielle Miraglia, Erik Balkey, Genevieve, Joe Crookston, Kim Moberg, Lilli Lewis, Lisa Bastoni, Monique Byrne, Mya Byrne, Neale Eckstein, Pat Wictor, Rod MacDonald, Tom Prasada-Rao, Tret Fure, and Vance Gilbert)- If It Were Up to Me
If It Were Up to Me – single (Hudson Harding Music)

Geoff Bartley- Keep Your Eyes on the Road
Keep Your Eyes on the Road (Magic Crow)
Bill Morrissey- Just Before We Lost the War
Something I Saw or Thought I Saw (Philo)
Lucy Kaplansky- These Days
Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)

Philip Dyson- The Entertainer
Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works (Decca)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Dry Times
All New (Community Music)
Randy Lewis Brown- Long Dry Season
Wind of Change (Berkalin)
Don Armstrong- Bowl of Dust
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)
Hilary Hawke with Reed Stutz- Happy Hollow
Lilygild (Hilary Hawke)

Bob Stark- Patterson Creek Bridge
Sculpted Pieces of Love (Bob Stark)
Amy Speace- Why I Wake Early (For Mary Oliver)
Tuscon (Windbone)
Peter Lehndorff- Don’t Be Discouraged
Don’t Be Discouraged (Peter Lehndorff)
Deirdre McCalla- Amaryllis
Endless Grace (MaidenRock)

Amanda Rheaume- 100 Years
The Spaces In Between (Ishkõdé)
Mama's Broke- Oh Sun/Pale Night/Forgetting Reel
Narrow Line (Free Dirt)
Kim Beggs- Steel and Wool
Steel and Wool (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men- Bad Boy
Been Here and Gone (Out of the Past Music)
Durham County Poets- That’s What Makes Me Smile
Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)
Sass Jordan- Chevrolet
Bitches Blues (Stony Plain)
The Strongman Blues Remedy featuring Harrison Kennedy- I Like to Ride
Volume 1 (Stony Plain)

Tim Sparks & James Buckley- Homeward Bound
Jukebox Dreamin’ (Acoustic Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 13. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday June 30 from 10 am-noon.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 12, 2022: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 1 – Classic Songs

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56876.html

Theme: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 1 – Classic Songs

Woody Guthrie – whose active career as a folksinger, songwriter and author was relatively brief, from the late-1930s until the early-1950s – was the most important folk-rooted songwriter of the first half of the 20th century and an inspiration to contemporaries like Pete Seeger and to subsequent generations of folksingers and songwriters who have followed. When Bob Dylan first came to New York as a 20-year-old in 1961, it was in search of Woody Guthrie who had been hospitalized since 1956 for Huntington’s disease, the hereditary neurological disease that would eventually take his life in 1967 at age 55.

Visit https://www.woodyguthrie.org/ for more information on Woody Guthrie.

Woody Guthrie- Hard Travelin’
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sneezy Waters & Mike Regenstreif (2013) Photo: Chris White

Judy Collins- Pastures of Plenty
Bohemian (Wildflower)
Happy Traum- I Ain’t Got No Home
Just for the Love of It (Lark’s Nest Music)
Cosy Sheridan- Ramblin’ Round
A Beautiful Sound (Cosy Sheridan)
Nanci Griffith & Guy Clark- Do Re Mi
Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)
Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- Deportee
Live (Sneezy Waters)

Woody Guthrie- Why, Oh Why?
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
Robert Resnik & Gigi Weisman- Car Song (Riding in My Car)
Sweet Potatoes and Home Grown Tomatoes (Fletcher Free Library)

Pete Seeger- Woody’s Rag
Darling Corey and Goofing-Off Suite (Smithsonian Folkways)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Woody Guthrie- Pretty Boy Floyd
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
Crowes Pasture- Belle Star
Rambling Round: A Woody Guthrie Tribute (Crowes Pasture)
Joel Rafael Band- When the Curfew Blows
Woodeye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (Inside Recordings)
Arlo Guthrie- 1913 Massacre
Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Philadelphia Lawyer
Folksongs of Idaho and Utah (Folkways)
Ian Tyson- Oklahoma Hills
Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)
Peter Rowan- New York Town
Calling You from My Mountain (Rebel)
Scott Wolfson & Other Heroes- Hard, Ain’t It Hard
Hard, Ain’t It Hard – single (Scott Wolfson & Other Heroes)

Mike Regenstreif & James Talley (2005)

Woody Guthrie- Talking Dustbowl
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
James Talley- Dustbowl Refugee
Woody Guthrie and Songs of My Oklahoma Home (Cimarron)
Jory Nash- So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh
Folk Jazz Blues & Soul (Thin Man)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Tom Joad
Hard Travelin’: songs by Woody Guthrie and others (Fantasy)

Odetta- The Great Historical Bum (The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done)
Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads (Vanguard)
The Vanaver Caravan- Peace Pin Boogie
Pastures of Plenty: Songs of Woody Guthrie (Coming Together Festival Productions)
Woody Guthrie- Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
Will Geer- I hate a song that makes you think you are not any good (narration)
Woody Guthrie: The Tribute Concerts – Hollywood Bowl 1970 (Bear Family)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings- This Land is Your Land
Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) (Daptone)

Next week: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 2: “New” Songs from the Archives

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 5, 2022: Just Who Was It Who Wrote That Song?

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56819.html

Theme: Just Who Was It Who Wrote That Song?

These are songs that have been widely covered by other artists, or that were hits by other artists, but these versions are by the original songwriters.

Kris Kristofferson- Me and Bobby McGee
Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia- You Were On My Mind (Sylvia Tyson)
Northern Journey (Vanguard)
Steve Gillette- Darcy Farrow
Steve Gillette (Vanguard)
Gordon Lightfoot- Early Morning Rain
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Heart Like a Wheel (Anna McGarrigle)
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino (Kate McGarrigle)
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Fred Neil- Everybody’s Talkin’
The Many Sides of Fred Neil (Collectors’ Choice Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Shel Silverstein- The Unicorn
Inside Folk Songs (Water)
Steve Goodman- City of New Orleans
No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology (Red Pajamas)
Michael Smith- The Dutchman
Michael Smith/Love Stories (Flying Fish)

Elizabeth Cotten- Freight Train
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Smithsonian Folkways)
Jesse Fuller- San Francisco Bay Blues
San Francisco Bay Blues (Good Time Jazz)
John Hartford- Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)
Jerry Jeff Walker- Mr. Bojangles
Five Years Gone (Atco)

Ron Hynes & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Ron Hynes- Sonny’s Dream
Face to the Gale (Artisan Music)
Bonnie Dobson- Morning Dew
Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)
Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now
Clouds (Reprise)
Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah
Various Positions (Columbia)

John Stewart- Daydream Believer
The Lonesome Picker Rides Again (Collectors’ Choice Music)
Townes Van Zandt- Pancho & Lefty
Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos (Omnivore)

Tom Paxton- The Last Thing On My Mind
The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Next week: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 1: Classic Songs

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--Mike Regenstreif