Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 4, 2022: A Week’s Worth of 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/595/57765.html

Theme: A Week’s Worth of Songs.

The show begins and ends with songs about every day of the week. In between are songs about each day of the week.

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Different Blues

Working Man Blues (Sunset Blvd.)

Spanky & Our Gang- Sunday will Never Be the Same

Spanky & Our Gang (Mercury)

Mike Regenstreif & The Durham County Poets (2014)

Durham County Poets- Monday Morning

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

Cowboy Junkies- Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning

The Caution Horses (BMG)

Taz Halloween- Wednesday’s Blues

I Am/Songs by Lynn Swisher Spears (Ugwerks)

Sam Baker- Thursday

Horses and Stars (Blue Limestone Publishing)

The Whiteley Brothers- Friday Night Blues

Sixteen Shades of Blue (Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Acadian Saturday Night

From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)

Kris Kristofferson- Sunday Morning Coming Down

Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

The Mamas & The Papas- Monday, Monday

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (MCA)

Jack Williams- Tuesday Night at the Candlelight

Far Away, Long Ago (Wind River)

Tom Russell & Gretchen Peters- Ash Wednesday

The Tom Russell Anthology: Veteran’s Day (Shout! Factory)

Dakota Dave Hull- Sweet Thursday

Under the North Star (Arabica)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Angeline is Always Friday

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Gordon Lightfoot- Saturday Clothes

If You Could Read My Mind (Reprise)

Caroline Doctorow- Sunday Morning

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Mississippi John Hurt- Monday Morning Blues

Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)

Terri Hendrix- Double Shift Tuesday

The Slaughterhouse Sessions: Project 5.2 (Wilory)

Charles Mingus- Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Blues & Roots (Atlantic)

The Cats & The Fiddle- Thursday Evening Swing

That's on, Jack, That's On: Selected Singles 1939-1950 (Jasmine)

Norma Waterson- On Fridays He’s Fred Astaire

The Very Thought of You (Hannibal)

Bebop Cowboys with Chris Whiteley- Dancing on a Saturday Night

Canadian Dance Hall (Bebop Cowboys)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Sunday

Movin’ On 1967-1968 (Mercury)

Fats Domino- Blue Monday

Fats Rocks! (Bear Family)

Tom Rush- Every Day in the Week

Blues, Songs and Ballads (Fantasy)

Next week: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers. Update (October 3): The Jimmie Rodgers theme will be postponed to a later date. Next week's show will a tribute to old friend Mary McCaslin, who passed away today at age 75,

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 27, 2022: Songs of The Mountain City Four and Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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/595/57707.html

Theme: Songs of The Mountain City Four and Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

The Mountain City Four was a folk group in Montreal in the 1960s that included Anna McGarrigle, the late Kate McGarrigle, the late Jack Nissenson, and Peter Weldon. The Mountain City Four never released an album back in the day but there is a selection of live and home recordings and Peter Weldon has assembled them on a CD – just called Mountain City Four – that will be released on September 23.

Mountain City Four- Motherless Children

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Roma Baran- Willie Moore

Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

Chaim Tannenbaum- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Katie Moore- Heart Like a Wheel

Montebello (Katie Moore)

Mountain City Four- Blue Moon of Kentucky

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Kiss and Say Goodbye

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Robert Resnik- Come a Long Way

Playing Favorites (Thunder Ridge)

Maria Muldaur- Cool River

Waitress in a Donut Shop (Reprise)

Mountain City Four- En Filant Ma Quenouile

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

The Mountain City Four in 1964: Kate McGarrigle, Jack Nissenson, Anna McGarrigle and Peter Weldon (Photo: Brian Merrett, Merrett Images)

Mountain City Four- You’ve Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- My Town

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Linda Thompson & Richard Thompson- Go Leave

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Kevin Roth- Complainte pour Ste-Catherine

Dulcimer Man (Folkways)

Mountain City Four- Reuben Ranzo

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Matapedia

Matapedia (Hannibal)

Martha Wainwright- Tell My Sister

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Rufus Wainwright- Walking Song

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Mountain City Four- This Train

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Goin’ Back to Harlan

Matapedia (Hannibal)

Linda Ronstadt- You Tell Me That I’m Falling Down

Prisoner in Disguise (Asylum)

Judy Collins- Sun Son

Times of Our Lives (Elektra)

Mountain City Four- V’Là L’Bon Vent

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Joe Boyd- Dancer with Bruised Knees

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken with Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Loudon Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane & Sylvan Lanken- Johnny’s Gone to Hilo

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Jack Nissenson & Peter Weldon with Kathleen Weldon & Lily Lanken, Jane McGarrigle, John Knowles, Marvin Segal, Andrew Cowan & Stephen Barry- Shenendoah

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Next week: A Week’s Worth of Songs.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 20, 2022: At the Intersection of Folk Street and Jazz Avenue

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/595/57659.html

Theme: At the Intersection of Folk Street and Jazz Avenue.

Paul Geremia & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Paul Geremia- Dr. Jazz

Love My Stuff (Red House)

Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton- Loveless Love

Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia/Legacy)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Ani DiFranco- Freight Train

Preservation (Preservation Hall)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk- Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

Boogie Woogie String Along for Real (Warner Bros.)

Oscar Brown, Jr..- Go Down Moses

The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)

Nat Adderley- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Much Brass (Riverside)

Mike Regenstreif & Erik Frandsen (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Erik Frandsen- Bopsville

Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)

Dave Van Ronk- The Fresno Shuffle

Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)

Leon Redbone- Sweet Substitute

Any Time (Rounder)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- River of Swing

River of Swing (Arabica)

Last Forever- Buddy’s Blues

No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

I’d Rather Lead a Band (Search Party) 

Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble & Martha Wainwright- Singin’ the Blues

Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke (Edge Music)

Jim Kweskin & The Neo-Passé Jazz Band- Staggerlee

Jump for Joy (Vanguard)

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- I Like You Best of All

Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)

David Grisman- Naima

Quintet ’80 (Warner Bros.)

Annabelle Chvostek- Belleville rendez-vous

String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)

Sussex- Drive

The Ocean Wide (Lucky Bear)

Michael Jerome Browne- He Ain’t Got Rhythm

Drive On (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004) photo: Ron Petronko

David Amram with Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Odetta- Home on the Range

At Home/Around the World (Flying Fish)

Reggie Harris- Harlem Renaissance

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Jackie Washington- Gotta Go

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Wade in the Water

Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs (Verve)

Next week: Songs of The Mountain City Four and Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday September 17, 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 particular show is now available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/57624.html

Guest: David Eisenstadt

Pharis & Jason Romero- Going Across the Sea

Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Mountain City Four- The Log Driver’s Waltz

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- Charming Molly

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle)

Hannah Shira Naiman- Little Black Train

The Wheels Won’t Go (Hannah Shira Naiman)

Morgan Toney- Kwana Li

First Flight (Ishkõdé)

Bob Jensen- Who By Fire

For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

ES:MO (Elizabeth Shepherd & Michael Occhipinti)- Lovers is a Dangerous Time

The Weight of Hope (ES:MO)

Alec Fraser, Jr- Grandma’s House

On the Wings of the Wind (Alec Fraser, Jr.)

Chris Rawlings & Anne Lederman- Apple Blossom Time

A Whistle, a Tune, a Song and a Dance (Cooking Fat Music)

Ken Tizzard & Amelia Curran- St. John’s Waltz

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Ken Tizzard)

Dennis O’Toole- Man of a Thousand Songs

Lone Gunman at the Assassin’s Hotel (Dennis O’Toole)

Ron Hynes- Boy from Old Perlican

Ron Hynes (Borealis)

Suzie Vinnick- Raino

Fall Back Home (Suzie Vinnick)

James Keelaghan- Walk On

Second-Hand (Borealis)

Windborne- Le Diable et le Fermier

Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)

Frida's Brow- Old Friends

Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Michael Kaeshammer- How Long Blues

The Warehouse Sessions (Linus)

The next six songs punctuated my conversation with David Eisenstadt, author of Under the Radar: 30 Notable Canadian Jewish Musicians. Visit https://undertheradarbook.com/ for more information about the book.

Aviva Chernick- La Serena

La Serena (Aviva Chernick)

The Travellers- Something to Sing About

The Travellers 1960-1966: This Land is Your Land (Sony)

Oscar Brand- The Derby Ram

The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)

Ofra Harnoy- Barrett’s Privateers

On the Rock (Analekta)

Danny Marks- Heading Down to New Orleans

Cities in Blue (Danny Marks)

Shelley Posen- Will Their Children Light the Candles

Menorah: Songs from a Jewish Life (Well Done Music)

Conklin Céilí Band- Shadow Boats

A Three Legged Stool (Conklin Céilí Band)

Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four- The Story of the I’m Alone

Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces next on October 22. 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 October 8.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 13, 2022: Songs of Gordon Lightfoot

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/595/57590.html

Theme: Songs of Gordon Lightfoot.

Gordon Lightfoot- Sit Down Young Stranger

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Eva Cassidy- Early Morning Rain

Imagine (Blix Street)

Spanky & Our Gang- Steel Rail Blues

Live (Mercury)

Mara Levine- Bitter Green

Facets of Folk (Mara’s Creations)

George Hamilton IV- Long Thin Dawn

Canadian Pacific (RCA)

Gordon Lightfoot- Rich Man’s Spiritual

Lightfoot! (United Artists)

Frida’s Brow- The Way I Feel

Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Frank Christian- Did She Mention My Name

Mister So and So (Palmetto)

Gordon Lightfoot- Sixteen Miles

Lightfoot! (United Artists)

Ronnie Hawkins- Home from the Forest

The Giant of Rock & Roll (Monument)

Ian & Sylvia- For Lovin’ Me

Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)

Josh White, Jr.- Wherefor and Why

Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)

James Keelaghan- Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Gordon Lightfoot- Don Quixote

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Rick Fines- Ribbon of Darkness

Solar Powered (Rick Fines)

Gathering Time- If You Could Read My Mind

Old Friends (Triple-G Records)

Claire Lynch & Bryan McDowell- It’s Worth Believin’

North By South (Compass)

Punch Brothers- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch)

Gordon Lightfoot- Old Dan’s Records

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Nanci Griffith- Ten Degrees and Colder

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Jesse Winchester- Sundown

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Maria Muldaur- That Same Old Obsession

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Stephen Mendel- Song for a Winter’s Night

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Gordon Lightfoot- The Pony Man

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Next week: At the Intersection of Folk Street and Jazz Avenue.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 10, 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/128/57551.html
 
Tom Chapin- Listen Close
Hold Our Ground (Sundance Music)
 
James Keelaghan- Second-Hand
Second-Hand (Borealis)
John McCutcheon- The Ride

Leap! (Appalsongs)
Claudia Schmidt- Broken Glass
Reimagining (Claudia Schmidt)
David Olney with Daniel Seymour- Evermore
Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I (Strictly Country)
 

Mike Regenstreif & Loudon Wainwright III (2015)

Mountain City Four- Jesulein Süss/Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Mountain City Four (Omnivore)
Loudon Wainwright III- One Wish
Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)
Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken with Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Loudon Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane & Sylvan Lanken- Johnny’s Gone to Hilo
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
 
Lucy Kaplansky- Last Days of Summer
Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- That’s How the Summer Slips Away
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Steel Rail- Once in a While
Coming Home (Crossties)
Happy Traum- Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photograph
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)
 
Peter Lehndorff- The Huntington’s Waltz
Don’t Be Discouraged (Peter Lehndorff)
The Wailin' Jennys- Keep Me in Your Heart
Fifteen (True North)
Ben Bullington- I’ve Got to Leave You Now
Ben Bullington (Ben Bullington)
 
Merle Travis- Sixteen Tons
Folk Songs of the Hills (Bear Family)
Mountain City Four- Dark as a Dungeon
Mountain City Four (Omnivore)
Peter Keane- I am a Pilgrim
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
 
Grit Laskin- The End of a Pointed Gun
Unabashedly Folk (Borealis)
Max Ferguson- Black September (Munich ’72)
Black September (Munich ’72) – single (Max Ferguson)
 
Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues featuring Cantor Pavel Roytman- Hine Ma Tov Blues
More Different Voices (Dawnserly)
Moira Smiley & Voco- Days of War
In Our Voices (Moira Smiley Music)
 
Sid Selvidge- Pearlee
Twice Told Tales (Elektra Nonesuch)
Furry Lewis- Kassie Jones
Furry Lewis in Memphis/Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 8: Big Road Blues 1966-1972 The Tradition Continues (Nimbus Matchbox Bluesmaster)
Spanky & Our Gang- Prescription for the Blues
Like to Get to Know You (Mercury)
Little Brother Montgomery- Lonesome Mama Blues
Home Again/Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 8: Big Road Blues 1966-1972 The Tradition Continues (Nimbus Matchbox Bluesmaster)
 
Brian Lemco- For EL
Seasons (Brian Lemco Music)
Amy Speace- The Offering
Tuscon (Windbone)
 
John McCutcheon- Third Way
Leap! (Appalsongs)
 
Paul Colombino- God Bless Americana
Hello Old Friend (Sweet Allen Farm Music)
 
Buffy Sainte-Marie- Little Wheel Spin and Spin
Medicine Songs (True North)
Geoff Bartley- When the Few Have Much and the Many Have None
Keep Your Eyes on the Road (Magic Crow)
Windborne- The Song of Hard Times
Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)
 

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

James Keelaghan- Eulalie
Second-Hand (Borealis)
Susie Burke & David Surette- I Turn to My Guitar
Waiting for the Sun (Madrina Music)
Bailey Bigger- Mississippi You’re On My Mind
Coyote Red (Madjack)
Jesse Winchester- It’s a Shame About Him
Love Filling Station (Appleseed)
 
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup- Rock Me Mama
Mean Ole Frisco (Collectables)
Mountain City Four- Mean Old Frisco
Mountain City Four (Omnivore)
Elvis Presley- That’s All Right
For LP Fans Only! (RCA)
 
Happy Traum- Living with the Blues
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Love, Truth and Confidence
At the Bunkhouse (BGO)
Michael Jerome Browne- Walk On
Double (Borealis)
 
Loudon Wainwright III- It Takes 2
Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)
Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche- Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
I Can Still Hear You (StorySound)
 
Helen Townsend with Shannon Smith- If You Were Real
Love Lies ‘n’ Leaving (Apra Amcos)
 
I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 8. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday September 17 from 10 am-noon.
 
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--Mike Regenstreif