Thursday, September 11, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 16, 2025: Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt


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/595/71992.html

Theme: Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt.


Townes Van Zandt
– who was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944 and died in Smyrna, Tennessee on January 1, 1997 at age 52 – was one of the greatest Texas singer-songwriters. Many of his songs are enduring classics still sung by many artists. 

Townes Van Zandt, Freddy Fender, Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution, Doug Sahm & Augie Meyer- Pancho & Lefty
Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (Tomato)

Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie- Tecumseh Valley
Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)
Bob Jensen- Colorado Girl 
For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber- If I Needed You
The Family Album (Outside Music)
Catherine MacLennan- When She Don’t Need Me
When the Wind Blows: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt (Appaloosa)
The Wainwright Sisters- Our Mother the Mountain
Songs in the Dark (MapleMusic)

Townes Van Zandt- Kathleen
Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Tomato)

David Olney with Daniel Seymour- For the Sake of the Song
Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I (Strictly Country)
Kate & Edith- Rex’s Blues
Live at Kelso Hall (Kate & Edith)
Saul Broudy- No Lonesome Tune
Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)
The Be Good Tanyas- Waiting Around to Die
Chinatown (Nettwerk)
Townes Van Zandt- Columbine
Townes Van Zandt (Tomato)

David Broza- Night Dawn (Silver Dollar)
Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt (S-Curve)
Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell- Snowin’ on Raton
One to the Heart, One to the Head (Frontera/Scarlet Letter)
John Gorka- Snow Don’t Fall
Writing in the Margins (Red House)
Townes Van Zandt- Sad Cinderella
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (Tomato)

Lucy Kaplansky- No Place to Fall 
The Lucy Story: unreleased and rare tracks, 1976-2023 (Lucyricky)
Steve Earle- (Quicksilver Dreams of) Maria
Townes: The Basics (New West)
Guy Clark- To Live is to Fly
Old Friends (Sugar Hill)
Townes Van Zandt & Kimmie Rhodes- Brother Flower
Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (Tomato)
Colleen Rennison- White Freightliner
See the Sky About to Rain (Black Hen Music)

Emmylou Harris- Pancho & Lefty
Luxury Liner (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Next week: Part 1 – If It Were Up to Me; Part 2 – Songs of Cole Porter.

--Mike Regenstreif

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