Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 28, 2023: Cowboys & Cowgirls

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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/59884.html

Theme: Cowboys & Cowgirls.

Ian Tyson- Night Rider’s Lament

Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Andy Hedges featuring Corb Lund- Little Joe the Wrangler

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

Finest Kind- The Goodnight-Loving Trail

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Diamond Joe

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy Songs (Monitor)

The Sons of the Pioneers- Roving Cowboy

Tumbling Tumbleweeds: The Chart Years 1934-49 (Acrobat)

Peter Keane- Cool Water

Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)

Herb Jeffries with Take 6- Tumbling Tumbleweeds

The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again) (Warner Western)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Blue Shadows on the Trail

River of Swing (Arabica)

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)

Stan Rogers- Night Guard

Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Quartette- Cowboys and Rodeos

Quartette (Denon)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- All This Way for the Short Ride

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Katy Moffatt- Hallie Lonigan

Cowboy Girl (Western Jubilee)

Dom Flemons- He’s a Lone Ranger

Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)

Over the Moon- John Ware

Chinook Waltz (Borealis)

Odetta- When I was a Cowboy

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Lynn Miles- Palomino

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Me & My Uncle- Me and My Uncle

Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus Music)

Marty Robbins- El Paso

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (Columbia)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- I Ride an Old Paint

Son of the Wind (Rising Son)

Tom Rush- Windy Bill

Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO)

Eliza Gilkyson- Colorado Trail

Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

Asleep at the Wheel- I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)

Reinventing the Wheel (Bismeaux)

Mickey Katz & His Orchestra- Haim Afen Range (Home on the Range)

Strictly Kosher: The Singles Collection 1950-1962 (Jasmine)

Bill Frissell & Petra Haden- Happy Trails

When You Wish Upon a Star (Okeh/Masterworks)

Next week: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March, 2023

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 and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/59865.html

The Brothers & Sisters- Mr. Tambourine Man 

Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)

Three songs in memory of Dane Lanken. Dane, an old friend and colleague in both music and journalism, died on March 3rd, at age 77.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Jigsaw Puzzle of Life

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Dane Lanken- No Biscuit Blues

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mike Regenstreif, Chaim Tannenbaum & Dane Lanken (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

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)

Rob Corcoran & The Necessary Evils- Over in Verona

Grand Declarations (Rob Corcoran)Er

Steve Lundquist- I’m Not Your Romeo

Acting a Fool (Steve Lundquist)

Lynne Hanson- Seeking Juliet

Eleven Months (Lynne Hanson)

Eric Bibb- 500 Miles

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Just Us Lillys- In the Hills of Tennessee

Not Far from the Tree (Just Us Lillys)

Kerri Powers- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

Words on the Wind (Must Have Music)

Tim Grimm- The Leaving

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Mary Gauthier- Sugar Cane

Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)

Geoff Bartley- Joshua Gone Barbados

The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)

Bunny Barnes- Hallelujah

It Goes Like It Goes (Bunny Barnes)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- The Woman Who Pays

The Woman Who Pays – single (Connie Kaldor)

Mary Beth Carty- Voilà le Printemps

Crossing the Causeway (Mary Beth Carty)

Amelia Hogan- Red-Winged Blackbird

Taking Flight (Amelia Hogan)

Vinta- The Heron’s Rookery

Beacons (Vinta)

Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy featuring Rhiannon Giddens- Woman of the House

Canvas (Linus)

Karan Casey- I Thank My Lucky Stars

Nine Apples of Gold (Crow Valley Music)

Jason Lang- Happiness Is

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Penny Lang- Diamonds on the Water

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- My Time is Gonna Come

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Rebecca Folsom- New Way Home

Sanctuary (Sunshine Productions)

Ben & Dom- Children of Darkness

His Head Lies Heavy (Ben & Dom)

Doug Cox & Linda McRae- Beyond the Great Pause

Beyond the Great Pause (42 RPM)

Eric Erickson- Slow and Steady

The Shadow of the Moon (Ardith Recordings)

Annie Capps- How Can I Say This

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Eric Kilburn- She Do

Reckonings (Wellspring)

Dakota Dave Hull- Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now

Better Late Than Never: The Classic American Guitar-Banjo (Arabica)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Dr. Joelson’s Bag

Hello World (Crooked Cyclone)

Bonnie Dobson- Peter Amberley

At Folk City (Prestige)

The Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell- Those Were the Days

Older But No Wiser (Vanguard)

Lynn Miles- Hwy 105

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Tom Russell- T-Bone Steak and Spanish Wine

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Keith Glass Band- Come Along

Different World (Stump)

Rick Scott & Nico Rhodes- Hurt So Long

Roots & Grooves (Grand PooBah Music)

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Shari Ulrich- Free Fall

Everywhere I Go (Borealis)

Derek Vanderhorst- Hanging on Your Door

Wildflower (Derek Vanderhorst)

Scarlet Rivera- Before Everything Changed

Tribute to a Song Poet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

My Politic- Cursing at the Night & at the Morning

Missouri Folklore: Songs & Stories from Home (My Politic)

Marilyn Jordan- Calico Curtains

Both Things are True (Marilyn Jordan)

The Klezmorim- Firen Di Mekhutonim Aheym

First Recordings (Arhoolie)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 22. 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 March 21, 2023: “Shout, Sister, Shout” and Other Songs from the Repertoire of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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.

111 episodes of Stranger Songs are listed and available to stream on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/index.html

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/59755.html

Theme: “Shout, Sister, Shout” and Other Songs from the Repertoire of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973).

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who died in 1973 at age 58, primarily – but not exclusively – sang and played gospel and African-American spirituals. She played electric guitar and has been called “the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll.”

Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra- Shout, Sister, Shout!

Bring Back Those Happy Days: Greatest Hits and Selected Recordings 1938-1957 (Jasmine)

Odetta with The Holmes Brothers- Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread

Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Bobby McFerrin- Joshua (Fit the Battle of Jericho)

Spirityouall (Sony Masterworks)

Mountain City Four- This Train

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Ken Whiteley- Precious Memories

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Phoebe Snow with The Holmes Brothers- Beams of Heaven

Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Is Everyone Happy

This Train in Concert (Sunset Blvd.)

Rory Block- Stand By Me

Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Ronnie Hawkins- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

The Folk Ballads of Ronnie Hawkins (Edsel)

Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)

Eliza Gilkyson & Jimmy LaFave- Down by the Riverside

Secularia (Red House)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe- That’s All

Bring Back Those Happy Days: Greatest Hits and Selected Recordings 1938-1957 (Jasmine)

Missy Burgess- Trouble in Mind

Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

Marcia Ball with Tracy Nelson, Maria Muldaur & Angela Strehli- I Want a Tall Skinny Papa

Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Rhiannon Giddens- Up Above My Head

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Bruce Cockburn- Twelve Gates to the City

Bone on Bone (True North)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Travelin’ Shoes

This Train in Concert (Sunset Blvd.)

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Kim & Reggie Harris- Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep

Get On Board: Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Volume 2 (Appleseed)

Marie Knight- Didn’t It Rain

Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Margaret Glaspy, Bruce Molsky, Brittnay Haas, Julian Lage, Joe Phillips & Jayme Stone- What is the Soul of Man?

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Lonnie Johnson- That Lonesome Road

The Complete Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Jonah in the Whale

This Train in Concert (Sunset Blvd.)

Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli & Tracy Nelson- Shout, Sister, Shout

Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Next week: Cowboys & Cowgirls.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 14, 2023: Roving Gamblers

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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/59680.html

Theme: Roving Gamblers.

All of the songs have something or other to do with gamblers and/or gambling.

Mike Regenstreif & Ramblin' Jack Elliott (2010)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Roving Gambler

Kerouac’s Last Dream (Appleseed)

Sean Gagnier- South Coast

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Mary McCaslin- Ballad of Weaverville

Prairie in the Sky (Philo)

Willie P. Bennett- John Henry, the Gambler

Blackie and the Rodeo King (Bnatural Music)

Jim Kwesskin & The Neo-Passé Jazz Band- Staggerlee

Jump for Joy (Vanguard)

Papa John Kolstad with Wildman Mike Turk- Black Dog Blues

Beans Taste Fine (Wampus Cat)

Roy Book Binder- Poker Playin’ Papa

The Good Book (PegLeg)

Tom Paxton- The Name of the Game is Stud

Ain’t That News (Elektra)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- The Dealer (Down and Losin’)

True Stories and Other Dreams (Elektra)

Ian & Sylvia- Summer Wages

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Ian Tyson- Gallo del Cielo

Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell- Throwing Horseshoes at the Moon

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Rosalie Sorrels- Aces, Straights and Flushes

Be Careful, There’s a Baby in the House (Green Linnet)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Gambler’s Blues

Inside (Philo)

Mollie O'Brien- Gambling Man

Big Red Sun (Sugar Hill)

Paul Geremia- Dying Crapshooter’s Blues

Live from Uncle Sam’s Backyard (Red House)

Michael Jerome Browne- Gambling Blues

Double (Borealis)

Big Joe Turner- Born to Gamble

I Don’t Dig It (Jukebox Lil)

Steve Goodman- The Lovin’ of the Game

Somebody Else’s Troubles (Sequel)

Mary Coughlan- The Dice

Under the Influence (EastWest)

Artie Traum & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Happy & Artie Traum- Gambler’s Song

Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Ballad of Honest Sam

It’s About Time (Tried & True Music)

Frankie Laine- Dead Man’s Hand

Deuces Wild (Columbia)

The Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell- Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie

Older But No Wiser (Vanguard)

Mike Regenstreif & David Clayton-Thomas (2006)

David Clayton-Thomas- Go Down Gamblin’

In Concert: A Musical Biography (Justin Time)

Next week: "Shout, Sister, Shout" and Other Songs from the Repertoire of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 7, 2023: Songs of Kris Kristofferson

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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/59628.html

Theme: Songs of Kris Kristofferson.

Kris Kristofferson performs at The International Folk Music Awards (2017)

Kris Kristofferson – who recently retired from performing and recording – had tremendous success as a singer and songwriter, and, as an actor. 

I met Kris a couple of times. In 2007, we spent an hour together onstage, and a few minutes chatting beforehand, when I moderated a panel discussion at the Ottawa Folk Festival on the enduring legacy of Woody Guthrie and Kris, along with Nora Guthrie and Jimmy LaFave, was one of the panelists. Then, in 2017, I was an award recipient at the International Folk Music Awards in Kansas City during the Folk Alliance International conference, and Kris was one of the artists who performed at the ceremony, and we had a nice chat at the reception. In both of my encounters with him, Kris couldn’t have been nicer or more humble.

Kris Kristofferson- To Beat the Devil

Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

Gordon Lightfoot- Me and Bobby McGee

If You Could Read My Mind (Reprise)

Katie Moore- Sunday Morning Coming Down

Only Thing Worse (Borealis)

Johnny Cash- Just the Other Side of Nowhere

Cash Unearthed Volume 1: Who’s Gonna Cry (American)

The Little Willies- For the Good Times

For the Good Times (Milking Bull)

Kris Kristofferson- The Silver Tongued Devil and I

The Silver Tongued Devil and I (Monument)

I noted that Kris Kristofferson was a panelist in a discussion on the enduring influence of Woody Guthrie that I moderated at the Ottawa Folk Festival in 2007. At one point, we were talking about Woody Guthrie’s song, “Tom Joad,” which was essentially a synopsis of John Steinbeck’s book, The Grapes of Wrath, and I mentioned to Kris that one of the few parts of the book that Woody left out of his song was the scene that Kris described in his song, “Here Comes That Rainbow Again.”

Mike Regenstreif, Nora Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson & Jimmy LaFave (2007)

Anne Hills- Here Comes That Rainbow Again

Woman of a Calm Heart (Flying Fish)

Willie Nelson- The Legend

The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson (American Roots Publishing)

Marta Gómez- The Circle

The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson (American Roots Publishing)

Kris Kristofferson- Duvalier’s Dream

Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

Jessica Chastain- Help Me Make It Through the Night

George & Tammy soundtrack (Sony Masterworks)

Roy Orbison- Something They Can’t Take Away from Me

For the Good Times: The Songs of Kris Kristofferson (Ace)

Joan Osborne- Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends

Pretty Little Stranger (Vanguard)

Chris Hillman- The Taker

Morning Sky (Sugar Hill)

Kris Kristofferson- Jody and the Kid

The Silver Tongued Devil and I (Monument)

Kris Kristofferson- Broken Freedom Song

The Cedar Creek Sessions (KK)

Johnny Cash- Casey’s Last Ride

Cash Unearthed Volume 1: Who’s Gonna Cry (American)

Rosanne Cash- Lovin’ Him was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)

The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson (American Roots Publishing)

Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God- Darby’s Castle

The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson (American Roots Publishing)

Kris Kristofferson- The Pilgrim: Chapter 33

The Silver Tongued Devil and I (Monument)

Janis Joplin- Me and Bobby McGee

Pearl (Columbia)

Next week: Gamblers.

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--Mike Regenstreif