Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 4, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa 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 the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/62598.html

Julie Felix- Mr. Tambourine Man

Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan (Remarkable)

Orit Shimoni- Winnipeg

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

The Fugitives- (No Help)

No Help Coming (Fallen Tree)

The Fugitives- Edge of the Sea

No Help Coming (Fallen Tree)

Bob & Sarah Amos- The Hills That I Call Home

Ever Onward (Bristlecone) 

Kathy Kallick Band- It’s Lonesome Everywhere I Go

The Lonesome Chronicles (Live Oak)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Yeder Eyner Veys (Everybody Knows)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Leonard Cohen- Everybody Knows

I’m Your Man (Columbia)

Art of Time Ensemble featuring Steven Page- A Singer Must Die

Songs of Leonard Cohen Live (Art of Time Recordings)

Jennifer Warnes- First We Take Manhattan

Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen 20th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)

Connie Kaldor- Leads to a Kiss

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

Shelley Posen- I Want to Write a Standard

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- Smile

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess) 

Paul Mills- Doc’s Guitar

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Ana Egge- G. Burns in the Bottom (pt 1)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Orit Shimoni- What Does It Matter

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

Colin Cutler with Laura Jane Vincent, Dashawn & Wendy Hickman, Aaron Pants, Rebekah Todd, David Childers- Temple of the Holy Ghost

Tarwater (Colin Cutler)

Too Sad for the Public- G. Burns in the Bottom (pt 2)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Deborah Holland- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

The Panic is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Gadfly)

Deborah Holland- Do Re Mi

The Panic is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Gadfly)

Wenzel- I Don’t Feel at Home on the Bowery No More

Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik)

Woody Guthrie- This Land is Your Land – alternate version

This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Dos Land iz Dayn Land (This Land is Your Land)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Ray Bonneville- Night Cab

On the Blind Side (Stonefly)

Last Birds- After Dark

Endless Turn of Day into Night (Last Birds)

Kerri Powers- Someone Else’s Prayer

Love is Why (Must Have Music)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Do the Work

Together (Appalseed)

Alice Gerrard- Sun to Sun

Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat)

Misty Blues- How Long Blues

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One)

Odetta, Dave Keyes & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Odetta- Careless Love/St. Louis Blues

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

I will be joining Ron Olesko of the Folk Music Notebook to MC the Greenwich Village Folk Festival's free online concert on Sunday, November 5, 7 pm (ET). You can watch the concert live at this link. It will also be archived for later viewing.

Andrew Calhoun- John’s Wife

Staring at the Sun: Songs 1973-1981 (Waterbug)

Mary Flower- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

Ragtime Gal (Bluesette)

Cliff Eberhardt- Man in the Moon

Knew Things (Tin Pan Ally)

Tret Fure- The Language of Love

Lavender Moonshine (Tomboy girl)

Dean Friedman- Ariel

Dean Friedman (Real Life)

Windborne- Grey Funnel Line

Recollections/Revolutions (Wand’ring Feet)

David Francey- Harbour

The Breath Between (Laker Music)

Orit Shimoni- Witness

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Tom Trauberts Kloglid (Tom Traibert’s Blues)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Finest Kind- Give Me Just a Little More Time

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on December 2. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 31, 2023: Halloween

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/62553.html

Theme: Halloween and CKCU Funding Drive.

I’ve been involved in community radio, first in Montreal at CKUT, and now in Ottawa at CKCU, for almost 30 years and I truly love the diversity of programming that you only find on community radio stations like CKCU. 

It’s only at community radio stations that people like me have the freedom to curate and host our shows without regard to commercial concerns. CKCU has shows that reflect very rare diversity in genres, artists, songs, and communities – and we’re only able to do that with your support. 

All of us who create programs at CKCU are dedicated volunteers. I know that I work hard to create interesting programs each week on CKCU and I think my programming is unique. But that’s one of the great things about community radio – all of the programs are unique. 

So, please click on this link to show your support for Stranger Songs and CKCU, and help us stay on the air for another year. https://www.canadahelps.org/me/6rEQFU7Z

Bodie Wagner- Halloween

Vintage (Bodie Wagner)

Fourtold- Panther in Michigan

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Fourtold- The Nine Little Goblins

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones- Halloween Wedding March

Old Tin (Dittyville Music)

Jack Hardy- The Halloween Parade

The Passing (Prime CD)

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross- Halloween Spooks

The Hottest New Group in Jazz (Columbia/Legacy)

Skinner & T’witch- Halloween

The Fool’s Journey (Skinner & T’witch)

Laurie MacAllister- Are You Happy Now?

The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)

John & Sheila Ludgate- Halloween Dad

The Kitchen Sessions (John & Sheila Ludgate) 

Loudon Wainwright III- Halloween 2009

10 Songs for the New Depression (Proper)

David Massengill- Come Take a Ride on My Broom

Mogana’s Sleepover and the Witch’s Hand (David Massengill)

David Massengill- The Witch’s Menu

Mogana’s Sleepover and the Witch’s Hand (David Massengill)

Stan Rogers- The Witch of the Westmorland

Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Donovan- Season of the Witch

Donovan’s Greatest Hits (Epic)

Ella Fitzgerald- Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (Verve)

Rockapella- Zombie Jamboree

Modern A Cappella (Rhino)

Vance Gilbert- Zombie Pattycake

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Vance Gilbert- The Day Before November

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Cab Calloway- The Ghost of Smokey Joe

St. James Infirmary (CTS)

Ray Bierl- Big Joe and Phantom 309

Any Place I Hang My Hat (Greasy String Productions)

The Balladeers- Tiptoe Through the Ghosties

It’s About Time (The Balladeers)

Count Basie- Trick or Treat

Hall of Fame (Verve)

Next week: Addendums to Past Themes.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 24, 2023: Conversation and Songs with Terri Thal

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/62442.html

Primary Theme: Conversation and Songs with Terri Thal.

Terri Thal is the author of the newly published memoir, My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me. She became involved in the folk music scene while still a teenager in New York and was the first wife and manager of Dave Van Ronk. She was also the first manager of Bob Dylan and a number of other artists in the 1960s. I spoke with Terri on October 13 via Zoom.

The next five songs punctuated my conversation with Terri.

Pete Seeger- Solidarity Forever

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle (Smithsonian Folkways)

Dave Van Ronk- Cocaine Blues

Inside Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy)

Bob Dylan- Masters of War

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Dave Van Ronk- Mack the Knife

Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Malachy’s

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds) 

Note: This is the first edition of Stranger Songs that I’ve recorded since the day of horrific and unfathomable terrorism committed by Hamas in Israel on October 7, and the entirely predictable consequences that followed in Gaza. I despair for the innocent victims in Israel and in Gaza who have been injured and killed these last few weeks. May there soon be peace, shalom, salaam, in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank; in Ukraine, and everywhere else on Earth torn apart by war. These are just a few of the songs I was reminded of in the days that followed October 7.

Leonard Cohen- Story of Isaac

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Turn, Turn, Turn

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Nanci Griffith- From a Distance

Lone Star State of Mind (MCA)

The Klezmatics with Adrienne Cooper- I Ain’t Afraid

Live at Town Hall (Klezmatics Disc) 

Fran Avni with Rachelle Mingail Shubert & Jeffrey Simons- Sim Shalom/Bring the Peace

Kulanu: All of Us in Harmony (Fran Avni)

Next week: Halloween and CKCU Funding Drive.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 17, 2023: Remembering Kate Wolf

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/62361.html

Theme: Remembering Kate Wolf (1942-1986).

Kate Wolf was a very fine singer and songwriter, and folk music activist, who died of leukemia on December 10, 1986, about six weeks before she would have turned 45. Although her career as a touring and recording artist was relatively brief, Kate was, in her time, and to this day, a highly influential artist.

Kate Wolf- The Minstrel

Weaver of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology (Rhino)

Kate Wolf- Emma Rose

Back Roads (Rhino)

Dave Alvin- These Times We’re Living In

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Nanci Griffith- Friend of Mine

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

John Gorka- Sweet Love

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Give Yourself to Love

Discovered: Live in Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Kate Wolf- Safe at Anchor

Safe at Anchor (Rhino)

Eric Bogle- Katie and the Dreamtime Land

Something of Value (Philo)

Eric Bogle- Cornflower Blue

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Kate Wolf- Poet’s Heart

Poet’s Heart (Rhino)

Utah Phillips- See Here, She Said

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Across the Great Divide

Forty (Daring)

Lucinda Williams- Here in California

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Greg Brown- Kate’s Guitar

In the Hills of California (Red House)

Kate Wolf- Old Jerome

The Wind Blows Wild (Rhino)

Kate Wolf- All He Ever Saw was You

Poet’s Heart (Rhino)

Steve Fisher- Streets of Calgary

River (SNR Music)

Eve Goldberg- Traveling Day

Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie)

Rosalie Sorrels- In China, or a Woman’s Heart

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Steven Gellman- California (For Kate)

All You Need (Hidden Poet Music)

Kate Wolf- Bird on a Wire

Looking Back at You (Rhino)

Next week: A conversation with Terri Thal, author of My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 10, 2023: Songs of Tom Waits

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/62260.html

Theme: Songs of Tom Waits.

Tom Waits- A Sight for Sore Eyes

Foreign Affairs (Elektra)

Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer- Ol ‘55

Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (Dualtone)

David Bradstreet- Grapefruit Moon 

Hindsight (David Bradstreet) 

Priscilla Herdman- I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You 

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish) 

Tom Waits- Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)

Closing Time (Elektra) 

Sneezy Waters- Invitation to the Blues

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Happy & Artie Traum- The Heart of Saturday Night

The Test of Time (Roaring Stream)

Claudia Schmidt- San Diego Serenade

Out of the Dark/New Goodbyes, Old Helloes (Flying Fish)

Tom Lewis- Shiver Me Timbers

Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer (Self Propelled Music)

Tom Waits- Semi Suite

The Heart of Saturday Night (Elektra)

VickiKristinaBarcelona- Cold Cold Ground

Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Dave Van Ronk- Jersey Girl

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)

The Once- The Briar and the Rose

The Once (Borealis)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Come on Up to the House

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Tom Waits- Long Way Home

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-)

Tom Russell- Downtown Train

Road to Bayamon (Philo)

Kimmie Rhodes & Willie Nelson- Picture in a Frame

Picture in a Frame (Sunbird)

Missy Burgess- Time

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Tom Waits- Closing Time

Closing Time (Elektra) 

Next week: Remembering Kate Wolf (1942-1986).

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday October 7, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa 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 the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/62245.html

Melanie- Mr. Tambourine Man

Born to Be (Buddah)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Ukrainian Now

Together (Appalseed)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- This Campfire

Together (Appalseed)

Utah Phillips- Joe Hill

We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years (Philo)

Rosalie Sorrels- Borderline Heart

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Penny Lang & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Penny Lang- My Last Go Round

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Noam "Nani" Vazana- Sin Dingun Hijo Varon (Without Any Sons)

Ke Haber (Noam Vazana)

Matthew Morgan- Sunny

Timepiece (Tiny Attic)

Bruce Cockburn- Us All

O Sun O Moon (True North) 

Connie Kaldor- Keep Going

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

Randall Kromm- Come with Me Now

Late September (Randall Kromm)

Eliza Gilkyson & Robert Earl Keen- How Deep

Home (Realiza)

Jay Linden- Hand Your Heart to the Wind 

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Ed Sweeney with Cathy Clasper-Torch- While My Guitar Gently Weeps

A Sunday Drive (Ed Sweeney Music)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Ana Egge- Shake Sugaree

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band- Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie

Almost Acoustic (Concensus Reality)

The Balladeers- Freight Train

It’s About Time (The Balladeers)

Elizabeth Cotten- Casey Jones

When I’m Gone (Folkways)

Rachael Kilgour- The Smell of Autumn Leaves

My Father Loved Me (Rachael Kilgour)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady

Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

Liz Simmons- Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Poets (Morgana Music)

Joni Mitchell- Urge for Going

Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)

David Francey- The Breath Between

The Breath Between (Laker Music)

Tony Turner- Crossroad’s Café

The Lost Sketches (Tony Turner)

Lyle Lovett- This Old Porch

Lyle Lovett (MCA/Curb)

Leo Kottke- Louise

Greenhouse (BGO)

Rod MacDonald- What Happened to You

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music) 

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (circa 1994)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Complete

Together (Appalseed)

Johnny Cash- Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound

American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)

C. Daniel Boling- The Missing Years

New Old Friends (Berkalin)

Tret Fure- This and So Much More

Lavender Moonshine (Tomboy girl)

Shelley Posen- Long, Long Tunnel

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Reggie Harris- It Isn’t Nice

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Emma's Revolution with Reggie Harris- Our People Gonna Rise

Rooted (Moving Forward Music)

Dropkick Murphys- My Eyes are Gonna Shine

Okemah Rising: Lyrics of Woody Guthrie (Dummy Luck Music) 

Bob Dylan- Tombstone Blues 

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy) 

John Forster- Route 9W Revisited

Location, Location, Location! (Acute Music)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Marblehead Morning

The Early Years (Daring)

Noah Zacharin- 17 Minute

Points of Light (Noah Zacharin) 

Connie Kaldor- Pain and Sorrow

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

David Francey- Two Shadows

The Breath Between (Laker Music)

The Kennedys- Silence is a Warning

Headwinds (The Kennedys)

Yake Strom & Hot Pstromi- Pilky

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc) 

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on November 4. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--Mike Regenstreif