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.
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Themes: Part 1 – Conversation and Songs with David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Ruination Day.
Part 1 – Conversation and Songs with David Eisenstadt
David Eisenstadt is author of Rock Musicians Under the Radar: 18 Notable Canadian Jewish Performers, the fifth in his series of Under the Radar books. https://undertheradarbook.com/
Robbie Robertson- Somewhere Down the Crazy River
Testimony (Universal)
The Lovin’ Spoonful- Blues in the Bottle
Do You Believe in Magic (Sony/Legacy)
Danny Marks- Heading Down to New Orleans
Cities in Blue (Danny Marks)
Marc Jordan- Waiting for the Sun to Rise
Waiting for the Sun to Rise (Linus)
Barenaked Ladies- If I Had $1,000,000
Gordon (Reprise/Sire)
Part 2 – Ruination Day
In her songs, “April the 14th (Part 1)” and “Ruination Day (Part 2),” Gillian Welch reminded us that the shooting of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in 1865, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, and Black Sunday, the biggest dust storm of the Depression-era Dust Bowl in 1935, all occurred on April 14.
Gillian Welch- April the 14th (Part 1)
Time (The Revelator) (Acony/Stony Plain)
Tony Rice- John Wilkes Booth
Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection (Rounder)
Uncle Earl- Booth Shot Lincoln
She Waits for Night (Rounder)
Lead Belly- Abraham Lincoln
Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau- Titanic
Lead Belly’s Gold (Stony Plain)
Pete Seeger- Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)
Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
Mance Lipscomb- God Moves on the Water
Newport Folk Festival – Best of the Blues 1959-68 (Vanguard)
David Olney- Titanic
Eye of the Storm (Philo)
Woody Guthrie- The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
Dust Bowl Ballads (Rounder)
Crowes Pasture- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Crowes Pasture (Crowes Pasture)
Woody Guthrie- Dust Bowl Refugee
Dust Bowl Ballads (Rounder)
Jimmy LaFave- My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)
Peace Town (Music Road)
James Talley- So Long It’s Been Good to Know You
Woody Guthrie and Songs of My Oklahoma Home (Cimarron)
Gillian Welch- Ruination Day (Part 2)
Time (The Revelator) (Acony/Stony Plain)
Next week: Swingtime in Springtime.
--Mike Regenstreif
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