Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 3, 2024: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, 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/595/66651.html

Theme: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2.

Mike Regenstreif & Si Kahn (1995)

Si Kahn- Back When Times Were Hard

Labor Day: A tribute to hardworking people everywhere (Strictly Country)

John McCutcheon- Go to Work On Monday One More Time

Labor Day: A tribute to hardworking people everywhere (Strictly Country)

Joe Jencks- The Old Labor Hall

Labor Day: A tribute to hardworking people everywhere (Strictly Country)

The Longest Johns- The Workers Song

Smoke + Oakum (Decca)

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- Silken Dreams

Voices (Flying Fish)

Mike Regenstreif & James Talley (2005)

James Talley- Forty Hours

Journey: The Second Voyage (Cimarron)

Peggy Seeger- Gonna Be an Engineer

The Folkways Years 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics (Smithsonian Folkways)

Diana Jones & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2021)

Diana Jones- Song for a Worker

Museum of Appalachia Recordings (Proper)

Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- The Lingan Strike

For a Song (Distant Whisper Music)

Mountain City Four- Dark as a Dungeon

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Rosalie Sorrels- Aunt Molly Jackson Defines Folk Songs Once and For All/I Am a Union Woman

The Long Memory (Red House)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Utah Phillips- The Charge on Mother Jones

The Long Memory (Red House)

Tom Russell- The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Blood and Candle Smoke (Shout! Factory)

Jesse Winchester- Working in the Vineyard

Let the Rough Side Drag (Stony Plain)

Sylvia Tyson- Trucker’s Café

You Were On My Mind (Stony Plain)

Murray McLauchlan- Farmer’s Song

Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Stan Rogers- The Field Behind the Plow

Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- No More Fish, No Fishermen

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

John McCutcheon- There is Power in a Union

Joe Hill’s Last Will (Appalsongs)

Magpie- The Rebel Girl

Endless River (Long Tail)

Country Cooking with The Fiction Brothers- Joe Hill’s Will

Country Cooking with The Fiction Brothers (Flying Fish)

Nat Adderley- Work Song

Work Song (Riverside)

Next week: Conversation and Songs with Reggie Harris.

-Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 27, 2024: Walking Blues

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/595/66546.html

Theme: “Walking Blues”

Robert Johnson- Walking Blues

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Kate McGarrigle- Walking Song

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Mike Regenstreif, Bruce Murdoch & Sneezy Waters (2014)

Bruce Murdoch- I’d Walk a Thousand Miles

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Ynana Rose- Midlife Walkin’ Blues

Under a Carhedral Sky (Ynana Rose Music)

Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- Walkin’ Round Town

Live (Sneezy Waters)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Walking Me Home

Jukebox of Paris (Castor Island Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Walkin’ Down the Line

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In Concert (Rising Son)

Eddie Pennington- Walking the Strings

Walks the Strings…and Even Sings (Smithsonian Folkways)

Fats Domino- Walking to New Orleans

Fats Rocks (Bear Family)

Mike Regenstreif & Lucy Kaplansky (2012)

Lucy Kaplansky- These Boots are Made for Walking

Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)

Beth DeSombre- Just Keep Walking

Holding the Threads (Beth DeSombre)

HotCha!- Walkin’ After Midnight

Dust Bowl Roots: Songs for the New Depression (HotCha!)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- That’s Why I’m Walking

Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)

Michael Jerome Browne, Mike Regenstreif & Eric Bibb (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Walk On

Double (Borealis)

Maria Muldaur- Walkin’ One and Only

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Gus Cannon- Walk Right In

Walk Right In (Stax)

Eric Bibb- Out Walkin’

Blues People (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Walking On the Moon

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- Walk Down By the Water

The First Million Miles (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave & Ruthie Foster- Walk a Mile in My Shoes

Cimarron Manifesto (Red House)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- When You Walk On

Paradise Hotel (Red House)

James Keelaghan- Walk On

Second-Hand (Borealis)

The Marigolds- When I’m Walking with You

That’s the State I’m In (The Marigolds)

Mike Regenstreif & Quartette: Caitlin Hanford, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church & Gwen Swick (1997)

Quartette- I Walk These Rails

In the Beauty of the Day (Outside Music)

John McCutcheon- The Man Walking His Dog

22 Days (Appalsongs)

Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole- Walking the Dog

5 Strings Attached with No Backing (Merriweather)

Next week: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 20, 2024: Murder Ballads

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/595/66460.html

Theme: Murder Ballads.

Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown- Tom Dula

Friend of Mine (Philo)

Ian & Sylvia- The Greenwood Sidie (The Cruel Mother)

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Fourtold- Four Rode By

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Ian Tyson- Claude Dallas

Cowboyography (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell- El Paso

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Dave Van Ronk- Duncan and Brady

Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)

Saul Broudy- John Hardy

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

Rory Block- Louis Collins

Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt (Stony Plain)

Clarksdale Moan- Stack O’Lee

Dewittville Blues (Clarksdale Moan)

Martin Grosswendt- Delia

Pay Day! (Martin Grosswendt)

Guy Davis- Sugarbelly

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Bessie Smith- Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair

Bessie Smith: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection (Big3)

Victoria Spivey- Murder in the First Degree

Queen Victoria (Frank Goldy)

Mark Rubin- The Murder of Leo Frank

The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Sadie

Delia’s Gone: Murder Ballads & Other Songs of Love & Death (Marc Nerenberg)

Mountain City Four- Sam Hall

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Doc & Merle Watson- The Banks of the Ohio

Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)

The Kossoy Sisters- Pretty Polly

Hop On Pretty Girls (Living Folk)

Karan Casey- The Ballad of Hollis Brown

Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale (Vertical)

Wendy Grossman- Mary Hamilton

The Last Trip Home (Riverlark) 

Next week: Walking Blues.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 13, 2024: Kin Ya See That Sun

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/595/66394.html

Theme: “Kin Ya See That Sun.”

All of these songs have something or other to do with the sun.

Terre & Maggie Roche- Kin Ya See That Sun

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Paul Simon- Was a Sunny Day

There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Warner Bros.)

Ana Egge- Chasing Rabbits in the Sun

Is It the Kiss (StorySound)

Jason Lang- You Are My Sunshine

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Shout Sister Shout- Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying

Hit That Jive (M.C.)

Bruce Cockburn- O Sun By Day O Moon By Night

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Sun, Son (Shining on the Water)

Love Over and Over (Polygram)

Thelonious Monk- North of the Sunset

Solo Monk (Columbia/Legacy)

Ian & Sylvia- Every Night When the Sun Goes Down

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Jackie Washington- At Sundown

Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)

Misty Blues- Go Down, Sunshine

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

Jay McShann- On the Sunny Side of the Street

Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Morning Sun

Morning Sun (Electro-Fi)

Chris Rawlings- Mr. Sunshine

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

The Magnolia Janes- The Sun in My Backyard

The Light Years (Be a Jane)

Miranda Hardy- Like the Sunrise

The Price of Happiness (Great Divide)

Hoyt Axton- We’ll Sing in the Sunshine

Mr. Greenback Dollar Man (Surrey)

Peter Yarrow- Weave Me the Sunshine

Peter (Warner Bros.)

John Stewart- Lost Her in the Sun

Bombs Away Dream Babies (RSO)

Linda Ronstadt- He Dark the Sun

Silk Purse (Capitol)

Katy Moffatt- Waitin’ for the Sun to Shine

Loose Diamond (HighTone)

Bonnie Koloc- Colors of the Sun

Rediscovered (Mr. Biscuit)

Pat Guadango- Warmth of the Sun

1964 (Campbell Music)

Lynn Miles- Time to Let the Sun

Fall for Beauty (True North)

Gordon Fleming- East of the Sun

According to Gordie: Gordon Fleming Anthology 1948-1990 (Just a Memory)

Next week: Murder Ballads.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 10, 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/128/66371.html

Emily Triggs- Beautiful August

The Great Escape (Emily Triggs)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- August Flower

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- High on a Mountain

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills- Gold Watch and Chain

Wasted Luck (Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills)

The Haden Triplets- Single Girl, Married Girl

The Haden Triplets (Third Man)

Jesse Winchester- Rosy Shy

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Bruce Murdoch- (The Plains of) Jericho

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Sean Gagnier- Circle Harbor

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Life Sweet

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Kevin Head- Everyone Needs a Backyard

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Madeleine Peyroux- Showman Dan

Let’s Walk (Thirty Tigers)

David Amram- East and West

Subway Night (RCA)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- If I Were a Carpenter

South Coast (Red House)

Tim Hardin- The Lady Came from Baltimore

Live in Concert (Polygram)

Tom Russell- Dance Hall Girls

Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection (HMG)

Tio Chorinho- Frevo Corrido

Tempestuoso (Lulaworld)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Riverboat

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Mary Ann

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

House of Hamill- The Highwayman

Wildfire (House of Hamill)

Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr- Love is Teasing

The Two of Us (Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr)

The Spain Brothers- The Leaving of Liverpool

Bright and Better Morning (The Spain Brothers)

The Proclaimers- Bonnie Lass

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

Beth DeSombre- My Father’s Piano

Holding the Threads (Beth DeSombre)

John Stewart- Anna on a Memory

Cannons in the Rain (RCA)

Teni Rane- Firefly

Goldenrod (Teni Rane)

Lou Dominguez- Eddie Went to Nashville

Hanging at the Luna Star (Lou Dominguez)

Hana Zara- Our Work Here is Not Yet Done

Bloom Where You Fall (People of Orphalese)

Last Forever- In the Pines

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

Sonya Cohen Cramer- Black Jack Davey

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

Evenchick & Hucul- Child of the Mississippi

This is My Story (Melissa Hucul & Mark Evenchick) 

Gathering Time- Ripple

Old Friends (Triple-G)

Guy Davis & Mile Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- In the Evening Time

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

The Dumptrucks- Thinkin’ of Home

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Me & My Uncle- Next Train Blues

Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus)

Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- I Just Fiddle All Day (The Busking Song)

Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus)

Guy Clark- A Nickel for the Fiddler

Old No. 1 (Sugar Hill)

James Talley- When the Fiddler Packs His Case

Touchstones (Cimarron)

Ruth Moody- Michigan

Wanderer (Blue Muse/True North)

Catherine MacLellan & John Connolly- The Call

If It’s Alright With You: The Songs of Gene MacLellan (True North)

Hank Snow- Cure for the Blues

Cure for the Blues (RCA)

Colin James featuring Lucinda Williams- Protection

Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain)

Tracy Nelson- The Summer of the Silver Comet

Home Made Songs/Come See About Me (Flying Fish)

Chuck E. Weiss & Willie Dixon- Down the Road a Piece

Old Souls & Wolf Tickets (Slow River/Rykodisc)

Misty Blues- Yonder Come the Blues

I’m Too Old for Games: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One)

Odetta- Look the World Over

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.) 

Marc Nerenberg- The Coo-Coo: A Reimagined Traditional Song 

Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Cuckoo

Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Ivan Strunin- Really the Blues

The First Day of December (Ivan Strunin)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 7. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif