Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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

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