Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 6, 2025: The Banjo Special

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/595/70088.html

Theme: The Banjo Special.

Pete Seeger holding his banjo.

All the songs and tunes on this show feature the banjo.

Doc Watson- Rambling Hobo

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Michael Jerome Browne- Reverend Strut

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

John Hartford- Gentle on My Mind

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

The Be Good Tanyas- Reuben

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Mary Gick- Hills of Home

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song

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

The Dumptrucks- Qu’Appelle

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Pete Seeger- Monsieur Banjo

American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Last Forever with John Cohen- Dillard Chandler

No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Arnie Naiman- My Lucy Stars

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen- Springhill

The Way We Roll (Gas)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Redwinged Blackbird

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five- Put ‘Em Down Blues

The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. III (Columbia)

Paul Barbarin with Danny Barker- Eh La Bas

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Collectables)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Berish Katz Breakdown

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Howdy Howdy

Woodland (Acony)

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn- Railroad

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island

Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project- Lazy John

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Derroll Adams- The Mountain

Songs of the Banjoman (Wundertutte) 

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Jenny Whiteley- Banjo Girl

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Tony Trischka & Steve Martin- Plunkin’ Rag

Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to The Klezmatics.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 29, 2025: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark

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/595/69984.html

Theme: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark.

Guy Clark – who died in 2016 at age 74 – was a great Texas singer-songwriter who began releasing albums in 1974. In the liner notes to Old No. 1, Guy’s first album, Jerry Jeff Walker referred to Guy’s songs as “the natural music of the acoustic guitar.” These songs were all written or co-written by Guy.

Guy Clark- Dublin Blues

Dublin Blues: 30th Anniversary Edition (Compass)

Nanci Griffith- She Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Blue Roses from the Moons (Elektra)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Like a Coat from the Cold

Ridin’ High (MCA Nashville)

Rick Robbins & Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Desperados Waiting for a Train

Walkin’ Down the Line (Seeds of Man)

Guy Clark- That Old Time Feeling

Old No. 1 (Sugar Hill)

Johnny Cash- Let Him Roll

Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)

Asleep At the Wheel- Blowin’ Like a Bandit

10 (Epic)

Rosanne Cash- Better Days

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- The Guitar

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Guy Clark- Ramblin’ Jack & Mahan

Boats to Build (Asylum)

Bill Hearne- The Cape

Always Trust Your Cape (Howlin’ Dog) 

Willie Nelson- Stuff That Works

Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy)

Guy Clark- Cold Dog Soup

Cold Dog Soup (Sugar Hill)

Terri Hendrix- The Dark

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

John Prine & Emmylou Harris- Magnolia Wind

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Bill Staines- Lone Star Hotel Café

Old Dogs (Red House)

Emmylou Harris- New Cut Road

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Guy Clark- The South Coast of Texas

Craftsman (Philo)

Suzy Bogguss- Instant Coffee Blues

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie- Old Friends

Old Friends (Black Hen Music)

Steve Earle- The Randall Knife

Guy (New West)

Guy Clark- Once More With Caution

Dublin Blues: 30th Anniversary Edition (Compass)

Next week: The Banjo Special.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 22, 2025: Songs for Earth Day

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/595/69923.html

Theme: Songs for Earth Day.

Earth Day has been observed on April 22 since 1970.

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Dry Times

All New (Community Music)

Tom Paxton & Anne Hills- There Goes the Mountain

Under American Skies (Appleseed)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Black Flowers

Road (Lynn Miles)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Mary Gick- Waltz for the Trees

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Kronos Quartet & Lee Knight- Garbage

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

Malvina Reynolds- Skagit Valley Forever

Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Malvinas- God Bless the Grass

God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)

Pete Seeger- If It Can’t Be Reduced

At 89 (Appleseed)

Pat Humphries- To My Old Brown Earth

Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 (Appleseed)

Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie- We Belong to the Earth

Spoken in Love: Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie in Concert (Long Tail)

Susan Werner- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Classics (Sleeve Dog)

Tom Jones- Ol’ Mother Earth

Surrounded By Time (S-Curve)

HuDost- Fire of Eden

The Monkey in the Crown (Open Sesame Music)

Deb Seymour- Heart of the Earth

Sometimes You Gotta Wear Boots (Herkimer Productions)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

John McCutcheon- Earth

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Penny Lang- Power of the Earth

Somebody Else (She-Wolf)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Gentle Arms of Eden

Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Moonfruits- Brittle Earth

Salt (Co-Op)

Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World (MCA)

Next week: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 19, 2025

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/128/69882.html

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Prairie Railroad

The Lost Sketches (Tony Turner)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Drunks and Fools

Black Flowers Vol. 3 (Lynn Miles)

Vince Halfhide- Sleepy Little Town

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Arthur McGregor- Dancing Shoes

Moore & McGregor: Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Ray Harris- Late Night Phone Calls

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Mary Gick- The Grassroots Waltz

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Miss Cherry Lane

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Suzy Thompson- Nashville Again

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Suzy Thompson- The Ballad of Honest Sam

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Then Came the Children

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Maggie’s Wake- Bridget O’Brien

Maggie’s Wake (Maggie’s Wake)

Stan Rogers- Scarborough Settler’s Lament

Songs of a Lifetime: For the Family (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis) 

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- Magdalen McGillivray

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Chris Walz- See See Rider

All I Got and Gone (Chris Walz Music)

Amanda Rheaume- #44

The Truth We Hold (Ishkõdé)

Rhiannon Giddens- We Could Fly

Freedom Highway (Nonesuch)

Louis Armstrong- Go Down, Moses

Louis and the Good Book (Verve)

The Short Sisters- Moses

A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)

The Sojourners- Brother Moses Smote the Water

The Sojourners (Black Hen Music)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army 

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain) 

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- And We Sang ‘Ha Lakhma Anya’ 

Manna (Well Done Music) 

Andy Cohen & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Andy Cohen- Crucifixion

Oh Glory, How Happy I Am: The Sacred Songs of Rev. Gary Davis (Riverlark Music)

Mahalia Jackson- Were You There

In Concert Easter Sunday 1967 (Columbia/Legacy)

Ralph McTell- Jesus Wept

Sand in Your Shoes (Red House)

NEeMA- Romeo and Juliet

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Perla Batalla- Ain’t No Cure for Love

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- The Girl Upstairs

Paris (Zoe Cat Music)

Kora Feder- In a Young Person’s Body

Some Kind of Truth (Kora Feder)

Danny Marks- I’m Ready

I’m Ready – single (Danny Marks)

Ellen Bukstel & Nick Annis- By My Silence

Legacy of Love (Ellen Bukstel)

Allison Russell & Annie Lennox- Superlover

Superlover – single (Fantasy)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- No Man’s Land

Eric Andersen in (Spoken) Pieces (EARecords)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven

2020 (Red House)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Woody’s Landlord Revisited

Bones of Trees (Vault)

James Gordon- Liberation Day

Liberation Day – single (James Gordon)

Rees Shad with Kemp Harris, Wanda Houston & Natalia Zukerman- Ain’t That the Way

Porcelain Angel (Shadville Music)

C. Daniel Boling- It Matters

It Matters (Berkalin)

Mr. O’Muck- Gone Train Blues

Home Field Recordings: The Ancient Blues of Mr. O’Muck (Muck-O-Phone)

Jim Ringer- Mrs. Delion’s Lament

Any Old Wind That Blows (Philo)

Preservation Brass- Bagatelle

For Fat Man (Sub Pop)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 17. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 15, 2025: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir”

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/595/69786.html

Theme: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir” – all the songs have something or other to do with animals.

Bill Staines- A Place in the Choir

The First Million Miles (Rounder)

Ian & Sylvia- Old Blue

Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Ron Hynes- A Good Dog is Lost

Get Back Change (Borealis)

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

Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)

Bob Dylan with Hilda Harris, Albertine Robinson & Maeretha Stewart- All the Tired Horses

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

Garnet Rogers- Small Victory

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

Amy Speace- There Used to Be Horses Here

There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears

Stardreamer (Alacazam)

Rosalie Sorrels- Mehitabel’s Theme

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Phil Harris- Thomas O’Malley Cat

Disney’s Jazz Album: Big Band & Swing (Disneyland)

Cisco Houston- The Cat Came Back

The Folkways Years 1944-1961 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tom Russell- Gallo del Cielo

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Man Gave Names to All the Animals

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Odetta- The Fox

At the Gate of Horn (Tradition)

Paul Geremia- Foolish Frog

I Really Don’t Mind Livin’/My Kinda Place (Flying Fish)

Dave Van Ronk, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen- Froggy Went A-Courting

Never Grow Up (Flying Fish)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

Gift of the Tortoise (Music for Little People)

Amelia Hogan- The Snow Hare

Burnished (Amelia Hogan)

The Marigolds- Inchworm

The Marigolds (The Marigolds)

Oscar Brand- The Derby Ram

The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)

Deborah Robins- The Three Ravens

Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music) 

James Keelaghan- Red-Winged Blackbird

Home (Jericho Beach Music)

Jackie Washington- The Snake

Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)

Dave Van Ronk- I’m Proud to Be a Moose

Peter and the Wolf (Alacazam)

Next week: Songs for Earth Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 8, 2025: A Tribute to Doc Watson

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/595/69695.html

Theme: A Tribute to Doc Watson (1923-2012).

Doc Watson was one of the most influential guitarists and singers of folk and related musical styles of all time. Blind since infancy, Doc was from Deep Gap, North Carolina and began his professional career playing electric guitar in a country and western band in the early 1950s. Doc had a deep repertoire of traditional folk songs and by the 1960s was performing folk music on acoustic guitar and banjo. Doc died in 2012 at age 89.

Doc & Merle Watson- Brown’s Ferry Blues

Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)

Doc & Merle Watson- Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down

Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)

Bill Garrett- Winters Night

Seems to Me (Borealis)

Jody Stecher- Way Downtown

Going Up On the Mountain (Acoustic Disc)

Michael Jerome Browne- The Coo Coo

Michael Jerome Browne & The Twin Rivers String Band (Borealis)

Si Kahn- To Hear Doc Watson Play

Thanksgiving (Strictly Country)

Doc Watson- Deep River Blues

Doc Watson (Vanguard)

Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson- Go Dig My Grave

Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson At Folk City (Smithsonian Folkways)

Doc & Merle Watson- Freight Train Boogie

Elementary Doctor Watson (Tomato)

Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith- Freight Train Blues

Storm Coming (Folklore Productions)

Maria Muldaur with Doc & Merle Watson- Honey Babe Blues

Waitress in a Donut Shop (Reprise)

Ian & Sylvia- Handsome Molly

Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Tom Paxton- Leaving London

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Doc & Richard Watson- St. James Infirmary

Third Generation Blues (Sugar Hill)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- St. James Hospital

Heartbeats Accelerating (Private)

Paul Mills- Doc’s Guitar

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis) 

Peter Rowan- Doc Watson Morning

The Old School (Compass)

Rory Block & Lee Berg- Your Long Journey

Woodstock Mountains: More Music from Mud Acres (Rounder)

Doc & Merle Watson- I’m a Stranger Here

Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder)

Happy Traum- Willie Moore

Relax Your Mind (Kicking Mule)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Shady Grove

Voice on the Wind (Rounder)

Jim Ringer- Sittin’ On Top of the World

Any Old Wind That Blows (Philo)

Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar

Together (Rounder)

Doc & Merle Watson- Along the Road

Watson Country (Flying Fish)

Doc & Merle Watson- Snowbird

Two Days in November (Poppy)

Doc & Merle Watson- Down Yonder

Songs Doc Didn’t Sing (FLI)

Next week: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir.”

--Mike Regenstreif