Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 2, 2024: The Musical Adventures of Jim, Geoff & Maria

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/595/64607.html

Theme: The Musical Adventures of Jim, Geoff & Maria.

Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur & Jim Kweskin (1964) photo: Joe Alper

Geoff Muldaur and Maria Muldaur were both members of Jim Kweskin’s Jug Band in the 1960s – the pre-eminent jug band of the ‘60s folk revival – and this show will explore a few of the many directions that Jim, Geoff and Maria have taken over the past 60-plus years – including numerous collaborations with each other.

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band- Jug Band Music

Jug Band Music (Vanguard)

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band- Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me

Jug Band Music (Vanguard)

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band- Wild About My Lovin’

Unblushing Brassiness (Vanguard)

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band- Richland Woman

See Reverse Side for Title (Vanguard)

The Even Dozen Jug Band- Come On In

The Even Dozen Jug Band (Elektra)

Geoff Muldaur- Jelly Roll Baker

Sleepy Man Blues (Prestige)

Jim Kweskin- Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor

Relax Your Mind (Vanguard)

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band- Chevrolet

See Reverse Side for Title (Vanguard)

Geoff & Maria Muldaur- Brazil

Pottery Pie (Omnivore)

Geoff & Maria Muldaur- Georgia On My Mind

Pottery Pie (Omnivore)

Paul Butterfield’s Better Days- Rule the Road

Paul Butterfield’s Better Days (Rhino/Bearsville)

Jim Kweskin- Sugar Babe

Jim Kweskin’s America (Reprise)

Maria Muldaur- Midnight at the Oasis

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Geoff Muldaur- Livin’ in the Sunlight (Lovin’ in the Moonlight)

Geoff Muldaur is Having a Wonderful Time (Reprise)

Jim Kweskin & The Neo-Passé Jazz Band- Jazzbo Brown

Jump for Joy (Vanguard)

Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble- Futuristic Rhythm

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

Maria Muldaur- He Ain’t Got Rhythm

Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)

Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur- Sweet to Mama

Penny’s Farm (Kingswood)

Jim Kweskin & Maria Muldaur- Let’s Get Happy Together

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble & Martha Wainwright- There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears

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

Jay McShann & Maria Muldaur- Confessin’ the Blues

Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)

Jim Kweskin & Samoa Wilson- Remember Me

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

John Sebastian & The J-Band & Geoff Muldaur- Minglewood Blues

Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost (Hollywood)

Jim Kweskin & Fiona Kweskin- Side by Side

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

Next week: Songs I’ve Heard Tom Rush Sing.

--Mike Regenstreif

 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 26, 2024: Home

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/595/64489.html

Theme: Home.

The songs on this show all have something or other to do with ideas of home.

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Home

Home (Realiza)

Peggy Seeger- Tell My Sister

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

Rufus Wainwright & John Legend- Heading for Home

Folkocracy (BMG)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Kitty, Come Home

Tell My Sister – Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Martha Wainwright- Proserpina

Come Home to Mama (MapleMusic)

Andy Cohen- Tryin’ to Get Home

Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)

Bob & Sarah Amos- The Hills That I Call Home 

Ever Onward (Bristlecone) 

Steel Rail- When Are You Coming Home

Coming Home (Crossties)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Home to Me is Anywhere You Are

Comedians & Angels (Appleseed) 

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Heym iz Mir Aleyn Nor Vu Du Blaybst (Home to Me is Anywhere You Are)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Kevin Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) photo: Vanessa Burnett

Kevin Head- Everyone Needs a Backyard

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Deborah Robins- I’m Going Home to Georgia

Home Fires (Zippety Whippet)

Bill Staines- My Sweet Wyoming Home

Miles (Mineral River)

Fred Holstein- The Telling Takes Me Home

Fred Holstein: A Collection (Fred Holstein)

David Massengill- My Home Must Be a Special Place

My Home Must Be a Special Place (Gadfly)

James Talley- To Get Back Home

Touchstones (Cimarron)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- On Your Way Home

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- Going Home

Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)

Tom Waits- Long Way Home

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-)

Shelley Posen- Roseberry Road

Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Pine

Live at the Great American Music Hall (Flying Fish)

Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis- Flying Home

Conversations in Swing Guitar (Stony Plain)

Next week: The Musical Adventures of Jim, Geoff & Maria.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 23, 2024

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/128/64437.html

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Way

Songs of The Carter Family (Appleseed)

Stan Rogers- Paint Me a Picture

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

David Essig- Albert’s Cove

A Stone in My Pocket (Peregrin)

Stan Rogers- Skyway

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Doug McArthur- The Lunenburg Shift

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Stan Rogers- Jamie

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Love Can’t Be Bitter All the Time

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Bob Franke- A Healing in This Night

The Other Evening in Chicago (Waterbug)

Stan Rogers- The Old Rose & Crown

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer

From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Jaspar Lepak- Kind

So Strong (Jaspar Lepak Music)

Leslie Evers- What Kind of a Heart

Bound for Land (Cumulus)

Simone Keane- Those Beautiful Times

Graced By Leaves (Simone Keane)

David Broza- Saturday Morning

En Casa Limón (S-Curve)

Lynn Miles- Palomino

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Wild One

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment) 

Pat Moore- How Long

Take It to Heart (Pat Moore)

Bobby Dove- Haunted Hotel

Hopeless Romantic (Bobby Dove)

Altan- The Barley and the Rye

Donegal (Compass)

Sassenach- Star of the County Down/Bus Stop Reel

Passages (Sassenach)

Tara O’Grady- Black Velvet Band

Black Irish (Tara O’Grady)

Maggie’s Wake- Grosse Isle (Far Away)

Maggie’s Wake (Maggie’s Wake)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell & Joe Ely- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Reverend Gary Davis- Crucifixion

A Little More Faith (Prestige/Bluesville)

Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson-Were You There?

Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)

David Olney- A Soldier’s Report

The Stone (Deadbeet)

Bruce Cockburn- Easter

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Jim Kweskin & Samoa Wilson- Engine 143

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

Paper Wings- Nine Hundred Miles

Listen to the World Spin (Paper Wings)

American Patchwork Quartet- Wind and Rain

American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army- They Call the Wind Mariah

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army (Appleseed)

Claudia Gibson- The Fields of Chazy

The Fields of Chazy (Claudia Gibson)

Jillian Matundan- Only Water

Singing to the Moon (Keezamonkee)

SONiA disappear fear & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

SONiA disappear fear- Teaching Vincent Van Gogh

Album 23 (Disappear)

Mouths of Babes- World Brand New

World Brand New (Wild Awake Music)

Jeff Talmadge- If I was a Sparrow

Sparrow (Berkalin)

Josh White, Jr. & Guthrie Thomas- Don’t Mean a Thing

Delicate Balance (Silverwolf)

Lisa Bastoni- Nora’s Guitar

On the Water (Lisa Bastoni)

Sandy Cash- Gilad’s Guitar

Voices from the Other Side (Sandy Cash)

Josh Fortenbery- Honey

No Such Thing as Forever (Josh Fortenbery)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- What Goes Around (Comes Around)

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

James Talley- Somewhere in the Stars (A Song for Diego)

Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)

Tom Rush- The Harbor

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 20. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 19, 2024: Music

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/595/64335.html

Theme: Music.

The songs on this show all have something or other to do with music.

Stan Rogers- Music in Your Eyes

Songs of a Lifetime: From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

James Keelaghan- Kiri’s Piano

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Musical Friends

Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Diana Krall- Let’s Face the Music and Dance

When I Look in Your Eyes (Verve)

Tom Russell- Tower of Song

Selections from Love & Fear plus bonus out-takes (HighTone)

Jimmy Driftwood- The Ozark Symphony

I Hear Your People Singing Blanchard Cave (Rackensack)

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Folksong

Folksong (RTE 8)

Brownie McGhee- The Blues Had a Baby (and they called it Rock and Roll)

Rainy Day (Tomato)

Louis Armstrong & Trummy Young- Now You Has Jazz

Armstrong Comes Alive (Jazz2Jazz)

Arthur Conley- Sweet Soul Music

Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974: Volume 6 1966-1969 (Atlantic)

Finest Kind- John Barleycorn Deconstructed

For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

John Hartford- My Rag

Morning Bugle (Rounder)

Christy Moore- The Tuam Beat

Magic Nights (Sony)

Doc Watson- Mama Don’t Allow No Music

Memories (Sugar Hill)

David Mallett- Ballad of the St. Anne’s Reel

Inches & Miles 1977-1980 (Flying Fish)

Lynn Miles- Three Chords and the Truth

Fall for Beauty (True North)

Maria Muldaur-Southern Music

Jazzabelle (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- I Turn to My Guitar

Love Filling Station (Appleseed)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air

This Train in Concert (Sunset Blvd.)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- River of Swing

River of Swing (Arabica)

Sisters of Sheynville- Yidl Mitn Fidl

Sheynville Express (Sisters of Sheynville)

Guy & Candie Carawan- When the Fiddler has Played His Last Tune for the Night

Folk Friends (Wundertüte Musik)

Next week: Home.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 12, 2024: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 2

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/595/64251.html

Theme: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 2.

The songs on this show are all between six and 10 minutes in length.

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Song of the Old Bush Pilot

Northern Spirits (Cooking Fat Music)

Ian Tamblyn- Tiger Lily Road

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

Marc Nerenberg- Ma Creole Belle

On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)

Allison Russell- Requiem

The Returner (Fantasy)

Cat Power- Visions of Johanna

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Tom Russell, Eliza Gilkyson & Joe Ely- Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- Follow That Road

Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)

Eric Von Schmidt- The Captain

Baby, Let Me Lay It On You (Gazell)

Chaim Tannenbaum- London, Longing for Home

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Bruce Murdoch- In the Simplest of Ways

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

James Talley- In These Times

Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)

The first volume of The Art of the Long Song was heard on the March 29, 2022 edition of Stranger Songs and can be streamed from the playlist at this link. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/55701.html

Next week: Music.

--Mike Regenstreif