Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 16, 2026: Blonde on Blonde Revisited

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/595/75850.html

Theme: Blonde on Blonde Revisited.

Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan’s monumental seventh album, was released 60 years ago on June 20, 1966.

Ben Sidran- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Dylan Different (Bonsai)

Greg Brown- Pledging My Time

A Nod to Bob (Red House)

Julie Felix- Visions of Johanna

Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan (Remarkable)

Emma Swift- One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost/CRS)

Cliff Eberhardt- I Want You

A Nod to Bob (Red House)

Cat Power- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

I’m Not There (Columbia)

Janet Planet- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

Janet Planet Sings the Bob Dylan Songbook, Vol. 1 (Stellar Sound Productions)

The Brothers & Sisters- Just Like a Woman 

Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)

Bob Dylan- Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy)

Bob Dylan- Temporary Like Achilles

Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)

Jason & The Scorchers- Absolutely Sweet Marie

Fervor (EMI)

Yo La Tengo- Fourth Time Around

I’m Not There (Columbia)

Bob Dylan- Obviously 5 Believers

Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)

Joan Baez- Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Any Day Now (Vanguard)

The final three songs were recorded by Bob Dylan during the Blonde on Blonde sessions, but not included on the album.

Peter Keane- I Wanna Be Your Lover

Milton Street (Broken White)

Marianne Faithfull- I’ll Keep It with Mine

Strange Weather (Island)

Bob Dylan- She’s Your Lover Now

The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare and Unreleased 1961-1991 (Columbia)

Next week: Remembering Bruce Murdoch (1947-2026).

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 13, 2026

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/128/75834.html

The McDades- Roving Gambler

Thread the Light (Free Radio)

Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck featuring Jerry Douglas- The Cuckoo

The Fiddle and the Drum (Thirty Tigers)

Amy Melissen & Lee Stivers- Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

Something Tells Me Everything Will Be Alright (AMCTR)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Farther Along

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mike Regenstreif & Chaim Tannenbaum (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken with Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Loudon Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane & Sylvan Lanken- Johnny’s Gone to Hilo

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Mary Anne

Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Hannah & Nathan- Turtle Dove

Love and Labour (Just Right Music)

Kitka- Loomine

Kolo (Diaphonoca)

Ian Tamblyn- Woodsmoke and Oranges

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

Boreal- Beautiful Blue

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Jenny Reynolds- Learning to Be Yours

Willow & Stone (Jenny Reynolds)

Willie Nelson- Dream Chaser

Dream Chaser (Legacy)

Jenna Nichols- You, Me & the Moon

The Commuter (Royal Potato Family)

Neale Eckstein- Always Been Older Than Me

Build Our Dreams (Neale Eckstein)

Annie Gallup- Almost Alright

Nightclothes (Galway Bay Music)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Church and Paydays

Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Rufus Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Chaim Tannenbaum, Lily Lanken, Lucy Wainwright Roche & Martha Wainwright- Wild Mountain Thyme

Folkocracy (BMG)

Tony Rice- Mr. Engineer

Tony Rice (Craft)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Train in the Rain

Speechless (True North)

Last Forever- Old 97

No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- I Rode ‘Em All, Man

Tracks (Hand & Heart Music)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Utah Phillips- Wabash Cannonball/Tolono

Good Though! (Philo)

ES Pearl AKA Ed Snodderly- When Doc Watson Come to Johnson City

Baggage Flies Free (Majestic/Need to Know Music)

Doc & Merle Watson- Along the Road

Black Mountain Rag (Rounder)

Stan Rogers- Down the Road

Songs of a Lifetime: From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Paul Mills- Clank Remembers 

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni- Arms

Birds (Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni)

NEeMA- Lost in L.A.

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Leonard Cohen- Going Home

Old Ideas (Columbia)

Norah Jones- Steer Your Way

Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note)

Sons of the Never Wrong- Waterfall

Feather and Starry Crown (Sons 3)

Teilhard Frost- Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deerskin

Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deerskin (Wolfe Island)

Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck featuring Jerry Douglas- The Fiddle and the Drum

The Fiddle and the Drum (Thirty Tigers)

The Klezmatics featuring James Brandon Lewis & William Parker- Elegy for the Innocents

We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett- How Will I Ever Be Simple Again

Seems to Me (Borealis)

Diana Jones & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2021)

Diana Jones- Better Times will Come

Better Times will Come (Proper)

A Different Thread- Over Again

Over Again (Same Cloth)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell & Dolores Keane- The Dreamin’

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Across the Great Divide

Marblehead Morning – Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl: 50 Years in Harmony (Daring)

Center of the River- Darkness Light

Americana Art Music from the Mississippi (CotR)

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi (2015)

Shawna Caspi- Hope Lives

Hurricane Coming (Shawna Caspi)

Oscar Brown Jr..- When Malindy Sings

The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Truth is on the Streets

Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus- Ghosts in This Room Tonight

Pattonville (Berkalin)

Dave Gunning- Pursued By Grace

Field Notes (Wee House of Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 11. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 9, 2026: Songs of Richard Fariña

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/595/75747.html

Theme: Songs of Richard Fariña.

Richard Fariña was a folksinger, songwriter, dulcimer player and novelist, who died in a motorcycle crash in 1966 at age 29. Richard was married twice – first to folksinger Carolyn Hester, and then to folksinger Mimi Fariña, the younger sister of Joan Baez, with whom he recorded three albums, the third of which was released in his memory two years after his death, which, tragically, happened on Mimi’s 21st birthday. While I never met Richard, I did become friends with Mimi when she came to play several times at the Golem, the folk club I ran in Montreal in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Mimi & Richard Fariña

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Dandelion River Run

Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Judy Collins- Pack Up Your Sorrows

Fifth Album (Elektra)

Caroline Doctorow- Another Country

Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña (Narrow Lane)

Moore & McGregor- Reno Nevada

Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Rhiannon Giddens- Birmingham Sunday

Freedom Highway (Nonesuch)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Michael, Andrew and James

Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Tommy Makem Fantasy

Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Mimi Fariña- Quiet Joys of Brotherhood

Solo (Philo)

Caroline Doctorow- Reflections in a Crystal Wind

Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña (Narrow Lane)

Stevie Coyle- The Falcon

Ten in One (Tuna Mine Music)

Grace Griffith- A Swallow Song

MinstrelSong (Blix Street)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Raven Girl

Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Plainsong- One Way Ticket

Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Fariña (Omnivore)

Ben & Dom- Children of Darkness

His Head Lies Heavy (Ben & Dom)

Eric Andersen- Bold Marauder

Waves (Appleseed)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Morgan the Pirate

Memories (Vanguard)

Joan Baez- All the World Has Gone By

Memories (Vanguard)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Joy ‘Round My Brain

Memories (Vanguard)

Judy Collins- Hard Lovin’ Loser

In My Life (Elektra)

Plainsong- Mainline Prosperity Blues

Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Fariña (Omnivore)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Pack Up Your Sorrows

Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Next week: Blonde on Blonde Revisited.

--Mike Regenstreif