Thursday, June 12, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 17, 2025: Music for 88 Keys


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/595/70697.html

Theme: Music for 88 Keys – all of the songs and instrumentals feature the piano as a primary instrument.


Philip Dyson- The Entertainer
Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works (Decca)

Perla Batalla- Sisters of Mercy
A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)
Chaim Tannenbaum- Time On My Hands
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Pink Martini with Rufus Wainwright & The Von Trapps- Kitty Come Home
Get Happy (Audiogram)
Last Forever- Lonesome Day
Acres of Diamonds (StorySound)

Hoyle Osborne- The Baltimore Todalo
Panazon: Pan American Café Music (Ripple)

Odetta & Dr. John- Oh Papa
Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)
Jay McShann with Johnnie Johnson- Kansas City (Revisited)
Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)
Alberta Hunter- Always
Amtrak Blues (Columbia)
Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues
Small Change (Asylum)

Mary Chapin Carpenter with Anais Mitchell- Home is a Song
Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)
Rosalie Sorrels- Moments of Happiness
Moments of Happiness (Philo)
Suzie Brown- Songs are My Tears
Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)
Jesse Winchester- The Easy Way
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Lee Hunter & The Gatherers- Farewell, Farewell
Beneath My Feet (Birds Tale)

Penny Lang- Nama Says
Yes (She-Wolf)
Julian Fauth- Bad John
The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong (Electro-Fi)
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Chicago House Rent Party
Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)

Count Basie & Oscar Peterson- S & J Blues
Satch and Josh (Pablo)

Next week: 1965.

--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 14, 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/128/70676.html

Mike Regenstreif & Steve Gillette (1994)

Steve Gillette- Grapes on the Vine
Best of (Compass Rose)

Ian & Sylvia- Darcy Farrow
Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)
Linda Ronstadt- A Number and a Name
Hand Sown…Home Grown (Capitol)
Steve Gillette- Back on the Street Again
Best of (Compass Rose)

Grayson Capps- Early Morning Rain
Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)
The Kennedys- Cotton Jenny
Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)
Seldom Scene- Steel Rail Blues
Changes (Rounder)
Gordon Lightfoot- A Painter Passing Through
A Painter Passing Through (Reprise)

Payadora- Prologue
The Legend of  Carau (Payadora)
Payadora with Elbio Ferenandez & Elmer Ferrer- Gaucho de las Pampas
The Legend of Carau (Payadora)
Payadora- Remember What’s Important
The Legend of Carau (Payadora)
Payadora- The Call of the Bandoneón
The Legend of Carau (Payadora)
Lucie Blue Tremblay- No Esta Solo
So Many Wows (Maggie & Shanti Musique)
NEeMA- Running
Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)
Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Across the Great Divide
Recordings Celebrating 50 Years of a Musical Partnership (Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl) 
Mary Chapin Carpenter- What Did You Miss
Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)
Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson
- Song to You
Dark Ages (Realiza)

Schmaltz & Pepper- Stirring the Pot
Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- In the U.S.A.
Bones of Trees (Vault)
Mike Regenstreif & Mark Rubin on Zoom (2025)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Bear at the Door
Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)
Eliza Gilkyson- Dark Ages
Dark Ages (Realiza)

Bethany & Rufus- Isn’t That So
900 Miles (Hyena)
Rodney Crowell with Emmylou Harris & Vince Gill- Dangerous Fun
Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester (Mailboat)
Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Jesse Winchester
- Glory to the Day
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
William Bell- All of Your Stories
This is Where I Live (Stax)

Tom Prasada-Rao- Maria
Beautiful You: The Songs of Tom Prasada-Rao (Tom Prasada-Rao)
Suzie Brown- I Love Missing You
Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)
Nathan Sloniowski- Archie’s Good Night
The Lost Love Letter to a Small Town (Rocketchimp)
Jim Wurster- Transcendental Inclinations
Transcendental Inclinations (Y&T Music)

Muireann Bradley- Stag O Lee
I Kept These Old Blues (Decca/Verve Forecast)
Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Long Gone Riley Brown
The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)
Dee Robinson- One Dime Blues
Dee from Decatur (Riverlark Music)
Roy Book Binder- Travelin’ Man
Goin’ Back to Tampa (Flying Fish)
Sue Foley- Freight Train
One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain) 

Dee Robinson- Washington Blues
Dee from Decatur (Riverlark Music)

Lotus Wight- Dear Old Five String
Original Works for Voice and Banjo Volume One (Lotus Wight)
Original Sloth Band- Diga Diga Do
Hustlin’ & Bustlin’ (Woodshed)
Benoît LeBlanc- Éy laba (Eh la bas)
Mô kouzin, mô kouzinn (Benoît LeBlanc)
Sheesham & Lotus & ‘Son- Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)
1929 (Sepiaphone)

Suzy Thompson- If I Could Stay
Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)
Paul Siebel- Jasper & the Miners
Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)
Happy Traum- Pinto Pony
I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)
Suzy Thompson- Uncle Dudley
Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)
Paul Siebel- Legend of the Captain’s Daughter
Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)

Cassie & Maggie- Fool’s Gold
Gold and Coal (Cassie and Maggie)
Stan Rogers- The Rawdon Hills
Fogarty’s Cove (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Old Jack Ryan
Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)
Donald WG Lindsay- Tramps & Hawkers
Two Boats Under the Moon (Donald WG Lindsay)

Sarah Segal-Lazar- Earlier
Valleys (Sarah Segal-Lazar)
The Heart Collectors- Shenandoah
Alchymie (Spins the Gold)

Dave & Kristi- All are Welcome Here
The Chickadees (Paris Chili)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 12. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 10, 2025: Dreams


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/595/70583.html

Theme: Dreams.


All the songs have something or other to do with dreams: dreams we dream at night, or daydreams, or, in many cases, aspirational dreams, broken dreams and dreams fulfilled.

Missy Burgess- Sweet Dreams
Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Ken Tizzard- Sonny’s Dream
A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Booth Street)
Ian & Sylvia- So Much for Dreaming
So Much for Dreaming (Vanguard)
Kim Beggs- Alive and Well in My Dreams
Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)
Tom Russell- Blue Wing
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)
Swing & Tears- The Dreamin’
Swing & Tears (Swing & Tears)
Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan’s Dream
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- I’ll See You in My Dreams
North By Southwest (Arabica)

Doug McArthur- Dreams and Visions
Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)
Rob Siegel- I Dreamed I Said to Sisyphus
I’m from Here (Rob Siegel)
The Puppini Sisters- Mr, Sandman
Betcha Bottom Dollar (Verve)
Garnet Rogers- John O’Dreams
The Outside Track (Snow Goose Songs)

Eliza Gilkyson- Impossible Dreams
Dark Ages (Realiza)
Kat Goldman- The One to Dream
The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)
Jamie Anderson- The Dream
Dare (Tsunami)
Jimmy LaFave- Land of Hope and Dreams
Depending on the Distance (Music Road)

Bette Midler- A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Broken Blossom (Atlantic)
Shelley Posen- I Missed You in My Dreams Last Night
Old Loves (Well Done Music)
Moore & McGregor- Dream With Me
Dream With Me (Ivernia)

David Myles- Dreaming
Real Love (Little Tiny)
The Lovin’ Spoonful- Daydream
Daydream (Sony/Legacy)
John Stewart- Daydream Believer
The Lonesome Picker Rides Again (Collectors’ Choice Music)

Anne Hills- Dreamcatcher
Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)
Eric Bogle- Don’t Throw Away Your Dreams
A Toss of the Coin (Greentrax)

Priscilla Herdman- Dreams
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Next week: Music for 88 Keys.

--Mike Regenstreif