Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 9, 2025: The Dark


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/595/73159.html

Theme: The Dark.


This time of year – the weeks leading to the winter solstice – is the darkest time of the year. As well, with the erosion of democracy and human rights, the spread of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and homophobia, ongoing wars and the waning belief in proven science typified by climate change denial and vaccine conspiracy theories, we are living in dark times. So, these songs all relate in some way or another to the dark.

Guy Clark- The Dark
The Dark (Sugar Hill)

Steel Rail- Darkest Night
Coming Home (Crossties)
Kate Campbell- Dark Night of the Soul
For the Living of These Days (Large River Music)
Slaid Cleaves- Through the Dark
Together Through the Dark (Candy House Music)
Ana Egge- Ready for the Darkness
Sharing in the Spirit (StorySound)
Arlo Guthrie- Darkest Hour
Amigo (Rising Son)
Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris- In My Hour of Darkness
Grievous Angel (Reprise)

Tuba Sknny- Echo in the Dark
Some Kind-a-Shake (Tuba Sknny)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dark Ages
Dark Ages (Realiza)
Caroline Doctorow- Children of Darkness
Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña (Narrow Lane)
Eric Andersen- Darkness
Eric Andersen in (Spoken) Pieces (EARecords)
Leonard Cohen with Cantor Gideon Zelermyer & The Shaar Hashomayim Choir- You Want It Darker 
You Want It Darker (Columbia)

Chris Rusin & Katie Wise- The Dark
Songs from a Secret Room (Rushing River)
Michael Jerome Browne- The Road is Dark
The Road is Dark (Borealis)
Clela Errington- Full Moon Dark Time
Walkin’ Each Other Home (Clela Errington)
Tom Russell- Darkness Visible
Blood and Candle Smoke (Shout! Factory)

Jamie Anderson- Run to the Darkness
The Truth Appears (Tsunami)
Johnny Cash- I See a Darkness
American III: Solitary Man (American)
Rob Lutes- Walk in the Dark
Walk in the Dark (Lucky Bear)
Carrie Newcomer- Singing in the Dark
A Great Wild Mercy (Available Light)
Chris Rawlings- Lifting the Darkness 
Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Dave Clarke- In the Falling Dark
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

Next week: A Hanukkah Concert with Nefesh Mountain and More Songs for the Holiday.

--Mike Regenstreif

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