Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 6, 2024: Remembering Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

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/595/66262.html

Theme: Remembering Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024).

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who died on July 16 at age 81, was a noted singer – probably best known for founding and leading the a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. She was a prominent civil rights activist and a member of The SNCC Freedom Singers in the 1960s. Later, she served as cultural historian in music history at the Smithsonian Institution, curator of music history for the National Museum of American History, and as a distinguished professor of history at American University.

Bernice Johnson Reagon- River of Life

River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish)

The SNCC Freedom Singers- Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

The SNCC Freedom Singers- We Shall Not Be Moved

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

The SNCC Freedom Singers- Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

Len Chandler & Bernice Johnson Reagon- I’m Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Pete Seeger- Backlash Blues

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Pete Seeger - Michael, Row the Boat Ashore

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Pete Seeger- Taint But Me One

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- There is More Love Somewhere

River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- Cotton Needed Pickin’ So Bad

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

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

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

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Joan Little

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Echo

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- As Long As I Have Breath in My Body

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- My Way

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Your Country

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Remember Me

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Long Way Journey Home

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Venture’s Song

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Come Unto Me

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- What Kind of Land

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- Balm in Gilead

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- Since I Laid My Burden Down

River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish)

Next week: “Kin Ya See That Sun.”

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 30, 2024: Remembering Happy Traum

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/595/66189.html

Theme: Remembering Happy Traum (1938-2024).

Happy Traum – born Harry Peter Traum but known all his life as Happy – died on July 17 of cancer at age 86. 

Happy was a great guitarist, folksinger and songwriter known both for his solo work and for his partnership with his younger brother, the late Artie Traum. He was an important figure in the folk revival, from the early-1960s until his passing, as a performer, as editor for three years of Sing Out magazine, as a catalyst for many projects, and as a teacher. Homespun Music, the company run by Happy and Jane Traum, offers lessons in guitar and many other instruments in many styles taught by Happy and by many other great musicians.

Happy Traum- There’s a Bright Side Somewhere

There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

The New World Singers- Bizzness Ain’t Dead

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The New World Singers- Blowin’ in the Wind

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Happy Traum with Bob Dylan- Let Me Die in My Footsteps

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Happy & Artie Traum- Mama, It’s Such a Long Ride Home

Happy and Artie Traum (Capitol)

Happy & Artie Traum- Misty Dreams

Happy and Artie Traum (Capitol)

Happy & Artie Traum- Trials of Jonathan

Happy and Artie Traum (Capitol)

Happy Traum- Boat’s Up the River

Relax Your Mind (Kicking Mule)

Happy & Artie Traum- The Ferryman

Double-Back (Capitol)

Happy & Artie Traum- Brother Thomas

Double-Back (Capitol)

Happy & Artie Traum- Sam’s Song

Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)

Happy & Artie Traum- Mississippi John

Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)

Bob Dylan with Happy Traum- Only a Hobo

Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)

Happy Traum with Artie Traum & Bill Keith- Off to Sea Once More

Mud Acres: Music Among Friends (Rounder)

Happy Traum with Artie Traum, Eric Kaz & Bill Keith- Titanic

Mud Acres: Music Among Friends (Rounder)

Eric Andersen with Happy Traum- Golden Bird

Waves (Appleseed)

Happy Traum- Mary, I’m Coming Back Home

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music) or There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Happy Traum- Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photograph

There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Happy Traum- Farewell

There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Happy Traum- Living with the Blues

There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Happy Traum- Hills of Isle au Haut

Bright Morning Stars (Lark’s Nest Music)

Happy Traum- Friends and Neighbours

I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)

Next week: Remembering Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024).

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 23, 2024: When the Saints Go Marching In

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/595/66100.html

Theme: When the Saints Go Marching In.

All of the songs on this show refer, in one way or another, to saints. Some of the songs are about specific saints. Some refer to saints in generic terms, and some refer to places named for a saint.

Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band- When the Saints Go Marching In

Live in Dublin (Columbia)

Darrell Scott- Saint Cecilia

Jaroso (Full Light)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Farewell to Saint Delores

Tanglewood Tree (Signature Sounds)

Nanci Griffith- Saint Teresa of Avila

Blue Roses from the Moons (Elektra)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- The Moon and St. Christopher

Sometimes Just the Sky (Lambent Light)

Dr. John with The Neville Brothers- Litanie des Saints

Goin’ Back to New Orleans (Warner Bros.)

Mike Regenstreif & David Francey (2019)

David Francey- Saints and Sinners

Torn Screen Door (Laker Music)

Jamie O’Reilly & Michael Smith- Song of Bernadette

Songs of a Catholic Childhood (J. O’Reilly Productions)

Jennifer Warnes & Leonard Cohen- Joan of Arc

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

Jessica Rhaye & The Ramshackle Parade- I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

Just Like a Woman: Songs of Bob Dylan (Jessica Rhaye)

Jack Hardy- Saint Clare

Noir (Great Divide)

Katy Moffatt- St. Anthony with Broken Hands

Midnight Radio (True North)

Gretchen Peters- Saint Francis

Hello Cruel World (Scarlet Letter)

Little Miss Higgins- St. Louis Blues

Junction City (Little Miss Higgins)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- St. Olav’s Gate

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Complainte pour Ste-Catherine

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Jimmy LaFave- On a Bus to St. Cloud

Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)

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

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Booth Street)

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers- When the Saints Go Marching In

Miss Smith to You! (Fat Note)

Next week: Remembering Happy Traum (1938-2024).

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 16, 2024: A Salute to Nora Guthrie

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/595/66023.html

Theme: A Salute to Nora Guthrie.

Nora Guthrie & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

Nora Guthrie – Woody Guthrie’s daughter – recently announced her retirement after 33 years as President of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Woody Guthrie Publications. Nora was also the founder of the Woody Guthrie Archive and co-founder of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to working with the Woody Guthrie Foundation, Nora had a career as a modern dancer – following in the footsteps of her mother, Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, who had been a member of the famed Martha Graham Dance Company.

Over the past 33 years, Nora was responsible for many Woody Guthrie projects including books, films, concerts, festivals and other events, and the unearthing of thousands of previously unheard Woody Guthrie songs that existed only as lyrics in the Woody Guthrie Archive. One of Nora’s greatest accomplishments was finding the right composers to set those lyrics to music. The songs on this show are just a small sampling of Nora’s work in that regard.

Billy Bragg & Wilco- I Guess I Planted

Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)

Cole Quest & The City Pickers- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Self [En] Titled (Omnivore) 

Folk Uke- California Stars

Starfucker (Folk Uke)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Birds and Ships

Postcards (Community Music)

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Be No Church Tonight

The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour: Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway (Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway)

Lucinda Williams- House of Earth

Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)

Jackson Browne & Rob Wasserman- You Know the Night

Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429)

The Klezmatics- Holy Ground

Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)

Lisa Gutkin- From Here On In

From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)

The Burns Sisters- God’s Promise

Wild Bouquet (Ithaca)

Wenzel- Ninety Mile Wind 

Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik) 

John McCutcheon- Harness Up the Day

This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America (Appalsongs)

Lucy Kaplansky- This Morning I Am Born Again

Reunion (Red House)

Joel Rafael Band- Ramblin’ Reckless Hobo

Woodyboye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (and Tales Worth Telling) Volume II (Appleseed)

The Del McCoury Band- Family Reunion

Del and Woody (McCoury Music)

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

Jimmy LaFave- Salvation Train

Peace Town (Music Road)

Dropkick Murphys- Watchin’ the World Go By

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

Arlo Guthrie- My Peace

Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Next week: When the Saints Go Marching In.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 13, 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/128/65969.html

Geoff Bartley- July

Interstates (Magic Crow)

Lui Collins- The Wildflower Song

The Seasons Project: Summer (Christine Lavin)

Robin Batteau- How Can You Love Me

The Seasons Project: Summer (Christine Lavin)

Tina Ross- Summers Like These

The Seasons Project: Summer (Christine Lavin)

Cosy Sheridan- Here Comes the Rain

The Seasons Project: Summer (Christine Lavin)

Kami Thompson- The Solitary Traveller

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

Lynne Hanson- Just a Little Bit

Just a Poet (Lynne Hanson)

Terre Roche- The Man Who Can’t

Inner Adult (Terre Roche)

Michael Jerling- I Talk to Dead People

Halfway Home (Fool’s Hill Music)

Teresina Huxtable- First and Only Tango

Wallflowers (Philo)

Sonya Cohen & Penny Seeger Cohen- Oh, Blue

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sonya Cohen & Peggy Seeger- A Squirrel is a Pretty Thing

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sonya Cohen & Pete Seeger- When I was Most Beautiful

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Last Forever- Hide and Seek

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sonya Cohen  Cramer & Elizabeth Mitchell- You’ve Been a Friend to Me

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tim Isberg- Better Times Ahead

Prairie Fire (Tim Isberg Music)

Lynn Miles- Night Owl

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

David Francey- Daughter

The Breath Between (Laker Music) 

Kathleen Edwards- Options Open

Dogs and Alcohol (Dualtone)

Ian Tamblyn- That Boxcar in Algoma

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

Keith Glass Band- Can’t Blame Me

Different World (Stump)

Ruth Moody- Wanderer

Wanderer (Blue Muse/True North)

Adam Karch- My Birmingham

Some Awkward Country Ahead (Adam Karch)

Martha Wainwright- Or Nothing at All

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

Ken Tizzard & Music for Goats- Barstools and Broken Hearts

The DAGG Sessions (Ken Tizzard)

Miranda Hardy- The Price of Happiness

The Price of Happiness (Great Divide)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- Charming Molly

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Finest Kind- Blue Mountain

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle Music)

Shelley Posen- The Old Songs Home

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

Jubal Lee Young- Jig

Wild Birds Warble (7Bridges Entertainment)

The Roches- Hammond Song

Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III & Chaim Tannenbaum- Schooldays

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Waterson:Carthy- Rackabello

Common Tongue (Topic)

The Copper Family- Come Write Me Down, Ye Powers Above

The Ultimate Guide to English Folk (Arc)

Richard & Linda Thompson- For Shame of Doing Wrong

Dreams Fly Away: A History of Linda Thompson (Hannibal)

Teddy Thompson- Those Damn Roches

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Pack Up Your Sorrows

Recordings Celebrating 50 Years of a Musical Partnership (Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl) 

Rory Block- Like a Rolling Stone

Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan (Stony Plain)

Erin Ash Sullivan- Goat on a Stone Wall

Signposts and Marks (Erin Ash Sullivan)

Enzo Garcia- I Wanna Hold You

Calicoustic (Recaredo)

Deb Seymour- Sometimes You Gotta Wear Boots

Sometimes You Gotta Wear Boots (Herkimer Productions)

Ish Theilheimer & Friends- The Wilno Chicken

The Wilno Chicken and Other Songs for My Community (Ish Theilheimer)

Leonard Cohen- Story of Isaac

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Art of Time Ensemble featuring Sarah Harmer- Dance Me to the End of Love

Songs of Leonard Cohen Live (Art of Time Recordings)

Two of a Kind- We Give Thanks in Hard Times

Let the Light In (Magillicutty Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 10. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 9, 2024: Remembering Kinky Friedman

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/595/65896.html

Theme: Remembering Kinky Friedman (1944-2024).

Richard Samet Friedman – or “Kinky” as he became known as a university student – was a noted singer, songwriter, novelist, essayist, occasional politician, animal rescue activist, and a larger-than-life character who died on June 27 at age 79.

Kinky Friedman at the Texas Book Fair in Austin (2013). Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Kinky Friedman- Me & My Guitar

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Willie Nelson- Ride ‘Em Jewboy

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Delbert McClinton- Autograph

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Lee Roy Parnell- Nashville Casualty & Life

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Somethin’s Wrong with the Beaver

Kinky Friedman (ABC)

Asleep at the Wheel- Before All Hell Breaks Loose

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Song About You

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Kinky Friedman- The Ballad of Charles Whitman

Sold American (Vanguard)

The Geezinslaws- Twirl

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Dwight Yoakam- Rapid City, South Dakota

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Guy Clark- Wild Man from Borneo

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Top Ten Commandments

Sold American (Vanguard)

Kinky Friedman- A Dog Named Freedom

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Marty Stuart- Lady Yesterday

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Chuck E. Weiss- Ol’ Ben Lucas

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Billy Swan- When the Lord Closes the Door (He Opens a Little Window)

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Jesus in Pajamas

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Kinky Friedman- Circus of Life

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Lyle Lovett- Sold American

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Tom Waits- Highway Café

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Resurrection

Resurrection (Echo Hill)

Kinky Friedman- Ride ‘Em Jewboy

Sold American (Vanguard)

Next week: A Salute to Nora Guthrie.

--Mike Regenstreif