Tuesday, August 27, 2024

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 CafĂ©
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

Sunday, August 18, 2024

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

Monday, August 12, 2024

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

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

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

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

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