Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 12, 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/128/71071.html

Jimmy LaFave- My Back Pages

Peace Town (Music Road)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon

Highway Angels…Full Moon Rain (Night Tribe Music)

Jimmy LaFave- Buffalo Return to the Plains

Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)

Jimmy LaFave- Peace Town

Peace Town (Music Road)

The Vanaver Caravan featuring Bill Vanaver- Just One More Time

Pastures of Plenty: Songs of Woody Guthrie (Coming Together Festival Productions)

Ellis Paul & Vance Gilbert- This Morning I Am Born Again

Side of the Road (Philo)

Wenzel- Been Down the River Too Long

Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik) 

The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown- From Here On In

Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)

Malcolm Holcombe- A Far Cry from Here

A Far Cry from Here (Purple Girl Music)

Sara Trunzo- In Your Mercy

Better Than I Was (Sara Trunzo)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Love is a Sacred Thing

Dance of Love and Death (EARecords)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Girl and Her Dog

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Payadora- Zamba del Carau

The Legend of Carau (Payadora)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Times Like These

Dark Ages (Realiza)

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band- Land of Hope and Dreams

Land of Hope and Dreams (Columbia)

The Solourners- People Het Ready

Hold On (Black Hen Music)

Nanci Griffith- Ghosts in the Music

Once In a Very Blue Moon (Philo)

Schmaltz & Pepper- The Ride to Zaslav

Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Benoît LeBlanc- Un-nòt-kankan

Mô kouzin, mô kouzinn (Benoît LeBlanc)

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Bob Loblaw Blahs

Survivor Tree (Bon Esprit Music)

Schmaltz & Pepper- Evil Eye

Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Lotus Wight- Little Hat Jones

Original Works for Voice and Banjo Volume One (Lotus Wight)

Rube & Rake- Some of Mine

Good Time After Bad (LHM)

Jessica Pearson & The East Wind- Heave Away

Grave and Garden Songs (Jessica Pearson & The East Wind)

Ray Bonneville- Streetcar Man

On the Blind Side (Stonefly) 

Night Sun- Summer Songs

One Moment of Grace (Borealis)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Bastille Day

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Wake Me

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Christine Collister- How Far to the Horizon?

Blue Aconite (Koch)

Christine Albert- L’air de la Louisiane

Paris, Texafrance (MoonHouse)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Mississippi You’re On My Mind

Ridin’ High (MCA)

Cheryl Wheeler- Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity (Philo)

The Lucky Sisters- I Can’t Stand Up Alone

So Lucky (Patio)

The Village Dudes- Tomorrow’s Train

Another Time and Place (Blue Flute Music)

Staber & Chasnoff- Spanish Johnny

Free To Dream (Bubkes)

Suzy Thompson- You Don’t Need a Gun

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Weary Blues

Woodstock Mountains: More Music from Mud Acres (Rounder)

Eric Erickson- The Potter

The Heart of an American (Ardith Recordings)

Freyda & Acoustic AttaTude- Potter’s Wheel

Midnight at Cabell Hall (Red House)

Mike Regenstreif & Steve Gillette (1994)

Steve Gillette- That Song About the River

Best of (Compass Rose)

Dee Robinson- Boat’s Up the River

Dee from Decatur (Riverlark Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Sailing Down This Golden River

Outlasting the Blues (Rising Son)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- River

Bridges (Red House)

Dee Robinson- Stack O Lee

Dee from Decatur (Riverlark Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 9. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 27, 2024: Walking Blues

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/595/66546.html

Theme: “Walking Blues”

Robert Johnson- Walking Blues

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Kate McGarrigle- Walking Song

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Mike Regenstreif, Bruce Murdoch & Sneezy Waters (2014)

Bruce Murdoch- I’d Walk a Thousand Miles

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Ynana Rose- Midlife Walkin’ Blues

Under a Carhedral Sky (Ynana Rose Music)

Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- Walkin’ Round Town

Live (Sneezy Waters)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Walking Me Home

Jukebox of Paris (Castor Island Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Walkin’ Down the Line

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In Concert (Rising Son)

Eddie Pennington- Walking the Strings

Walks the Strings…and Even Sings (Smithsonian Folkways)

Fats Domino- Walking to New Orleans

Fats Rocks (Bear Family)

Mike Regenstreif & Lucy Kaplansky (2012)

Lucy Kaplansky- These Boots are Made for Walking

Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)

Beth DeSombre- Just Keep Walking

Holding the Threads (Beth DeSombre)

HotCha!- Walkin’ After Midnight

Dust Bowl Roots: Songs for the New Depression (HotCha!)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- That’s Why I’m Walking

Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)

Michael Jerome Browne, Mike Regenstreif & Eric Bibb (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Walk On

Double (Borealis)

Maria Muldaur- Walkin’ One and Only

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Gus Cannon- Walk Right In

Walk Right In (Stax)

Eric Bibb- Out Walkin’

Blues People (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Walking On the Moon

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- Walk Down By the Water

The First Million Miles (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave & Ruthie Foster- Walk a Mile in My Shoes

Cimarron Manifesto (Red House)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- When You Walk On

Paradise Hotel (Red House)

James Keelaghan- Walk On

Second-Hand (Borealis)

The Marigolds- When I’m Walking with You

That’s the State I’m In (The Marigolds)

Mike Regenstreif & Quartette: Caitlin Hanford, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church & Gwen Swick (1997)

Quartette- I Walk These Rails

In the Beauty of the Day (Outside Music)

John McCutcheon- The Man Walking His Dog

22 Days (Appalsongs)

Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole- Walking the Dog

5 Strings Attached with No Backing (Merriweather)

Next week: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 16, 2024: A Salute to Nora Guthrie

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/595/66023.html

Theme: A Salute to Nora Guthrie.

Nora Guthrie & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

Nora Guthrie – Woody Guthrie’s daughter – recently announced her retirement after 33 years as President of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Woody Guthrie Publications. Nora was also the founder of the Woody Guthrie Archive and co-founder of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to working with the Woody Guthrie Foundation, Nora had a career as a modern dancer – following in the footsteps of her mother, Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, who had been a member of the famed Martha Graham Dance Company.

Over the past 33 years, Nora was responsible for many Woody Guthrie projects including books, films, concerts, festivals and other events, and the unearthing of thousands of previously unheard Woody Guthrie songs that existed only as lyrics in the Woody Guthrie Archive. One of Nora’s greatest accomplishments was finding the right composers to set those lyrics to music. The songs on this show are just a small sampling of Nora’s work in that regard.

Billy Bragg & Wilco- I Guess I Planted

Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)

Cole Quest & The City Pickers- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Self [En] Titled (Omnivore) 

Folk Uke- California Stars

Starfucker (Folk Uke)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Birds and Ships

Postcards (Community Music)

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Be No Church Tonight

The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour: Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway (Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway)

Lucinda Williams- House of Earth

Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)

Jackson Browne & Rob Wasserman- You Know the Night

Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429)

The Klezmatics- Holy Ground

Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)

Lisa Gutkin- From Here On In

From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)

The Burns Sisters- God’s Promise

Wild Bouquet (Ithaca)

Wenzel- Ninety Mile Wind 

Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik) 

John McCutcheon- Harness Up the Day

This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America (Appalsongs)

Lucy Kaplansky- This Morning I Am Born Again

Reunion (Red House)

Joel Rafael Band- Ramblin’ Reckless Hobo

Woodyboye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (and Tales Worth Telling) Volume II (Appleseed)

The Del McCoury Band- Family Reunion

Del and Woody (McCoury Music)

Mike Regenstreif, Nora Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson & Jimmy LaFave (2007)

Jimmy LaFave- Salvation Train

Peace Town (Music Road)

Dropkick Murphys- Watchin’ the World Go By

Okemah Rising: Lyrics of Woody Guthrie (Dummy Luck Music)

Arlo Guthrie- My Peace

Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Next week: When the Saints Go Marching In.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 7, 2024: Songs for Mothers

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/595/65085.html

Theme: Songs for Mothers.

Some of these songs are written about mothers, some are written from the perspectives of mothers.

Rachel Bissex- Dancing with My Mother

In White Light (One Take Music)

Bob Dylan did not write “Mama You Been On My Mind” about his mother, but Bettye LaVette turned it into one about hers.

Bettye LaVette- Mama, You Been On My Mind

Things Have Changed (Verve)

Eric Bogle- Leaving Nancy

By Request (Greentrax)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Ghosts

A Reasonable Amount of Trouble (Appleseed)

Anne Hills- Mother

The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills sings the songs of Tom Paxton (Appleseed)

Lucy Kaplansky- Mother’s Day

Reunion (Red House)

Dave Clarke- Simonne

The Healing Garden (Crossties)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Baby Rocking Medley

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Rosalie Sorrels- Song for David

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Rosalie Sorrels- Apple of My Eye

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Nancy White- Momnipotent

Momnipotent (The Children’s Group)

Nancy White- Open That Can

Momnipotent (The Children’s Group)

Christine Albert- Are We There Yet Mama

Underneath the Lone Star Sky (Dos)

Connie Kaldor- God Made Mamas to Cry

Vinyl Songbook (Coyote Entertainment)

Connie Kaldor- Mother’s Prayer

Out of the Blue (Coyote Entertainment)

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard- Mama’s Gonna Stay

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder)

David Massengill- Song to Mother

Morgana’s Sleepover and the Witch’s Hand (David Massengill)

Steel Rail- What My Mother Saw

The Road Less Travelled (Crossties)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Song for Gaby

Matapedia (Hannibal)

Shelley Posen- Fork Garden

Menorah: Songs from a Jewish Life (Well Done Music)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- Red Shoes

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Nanci Griffith- Last Song for Mother

Clock Without Hands (Elektra)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Mother’s Voice (I Hear You Sing Again)

Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Odetta- Mother’s Blues

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Next week: Songs of Jacques Brel.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 30, 2024: Remembering Pete Seeger

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/595/64978.html

Theme: Remembering Pete Seeger (1919-2014)

Pete Seeger – who died in 2014 at age 94 – was a folksinger, musician, songwriter, author and activist at the vanguard of the folk revival from the 1940s until his death. Virtually all of us who came into the folk scene over the past seven decades or more, stand on Pete’s shoulders.

Pete Seeger- Tomorrow is a Highway

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Weavers- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)

Nanci Griffith with Odetta, The Indigo Girls, Kennedy Rose, John Prine, James Hooker, Barry & Holly Tashian, John Gorka, David Mallett, Marlin Griffith & Jim Rooney- Wimoweh (Mbube)

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Perla Batalla- Guantanamera

Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)

Peter Paul & Mary- If I Had a Hammer

Peter Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)

Noel Paul Stookey- Not That Kind of Music

At Home: The Maine Tour (Neworld)

Pete Seeger with Arlo Guthrie & Shenendoah- Precious Friend You Will Be There

Precious Friend (Warner Bros.)

Bruce Cockburn- Turn, Turn, Turn

Rarities (True North)

Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Magpie- Last Train to Nuremburg

Endless River (Long Tail)

Ken Whiteley- Quite Early Morning

Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)

Pete Seeger- One Grain of Sand

Dangerous Songs!? (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer (The Power of Song)

All New (Community Music)

Annie Patterson- Pastures of Plenty

Meet Me By the Moonlight (Annie Patterson)

Arlo Guthrie with Shenendoah- Sailing Down This Golden River

Outlasting the Blues (Rising Son)

Pete Seeger- Of Time and Rivers Flowing

Pete (Living Music)

Reggie Harris- High Over the Hudson

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Happy Traum- Empty Pocket Blues

I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)

Rosalie Sorrels- Old Devil Time

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Penny Lang- Oh, Had I a Golden Thread

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

Pete Seeger- Both Sides Now

Young vs. Old (Columbia)

John McCutcheon with Hot Rize- Well May the World Go

To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs)

Next week: Songs for Mothers.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 9, 2023

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/128/61892.html

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Mr. Tambourine Man

HARP: A Time to Sing (Appleseed)

Jay Linden- 10 Dollar Show

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- New Stranger Blues

A Stranger Here (Anti-)

Jesse DeNatale- Streets of Sorrow

The Hands of Time (Blue Arrow)

Eliza Gilkyson- True North

Home (Realiza)

The Rifters- Gentle On My Mind

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Noah Zacharin- Done Gone Gone

Points of Light (Noah Zacharin)

Nellie McKay- Driftin’

Hey Guys, Watch This (Hungry Mouse)

Allison Brown- Don’t Wait Too Long

Just Another Memory (Allison Brown)

Coco Love Alcorn- This Little Light of Mine

Rebirth (Coco Love Alcorn)

In memory of Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023)

Note: Based on a published report, I mentioned that Jimmy Buffett died from lymphoma. However, after the show was recorded, it was announced that his cause of death was "complications from Merkel-cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer."

Jimmy Buffett- He Went to Paris

A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (MCA)

Jimmy Buffett- The Captain and the Kid

Havana Daydreamin’ (MCA)

Jimmy Buffett- I Wave Bye-Bye

Songs from St. Somewhere (Mailboat)

Jesse Winchester- Biloxi

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Rachel Anne Goodman- Slow Down Time

California Morning (Coastridge)

Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer- Ol ‘55

Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (Dualtone)

David Bradstreet- Grapefruit Moon

Hindsight (David Bradstreet)

Priscilla Herdman- I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Tom Waits- Martha

Closing Time (Elektra)

Hank Woji- Sitting in Limbo

Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams (KZRecords)

Linda Ronstadt- Many Rivers to Cross

Prisoner in Disguise (Asylum)

Sneezy Waters- The Harder They Come

Sneezy Waters Live (Sneezy Waters)

Jimmy Cliff- You Can Get It If You Really Want

The Harder They Come (Island)

April Verch & Cody Walters- Up in the Ottawa Valley

Passages and Pairings (Slab Town)

Stan Rogers- Acadian Saturday Night

From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)

Notre Dame de Grass- Saturday Night

New Canada Road (Notre Dame de Grass)

C. Daniel Boling featuring Tom Paxton- Old Friends

New Old Friends (Berkalin)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Faces and Places

New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)

Tom Russell- These Friends of Mine

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Christian Parker- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Sweethearts: A Tribute to The Byrd’s ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ (Subcat)

Julian Taylor- Wide Awake

Beyond the Reservoir (Howling Turtle)

Allison Russell- Persephone

Outside Child (Fantasy)

Iggy Pop- You Want It Darker

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

In memory of Len Chandler (1935-1988)

Len Chandler & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

Len Chandler- Keep On Keeping On

To Be a Man (Columbia)

Dave Van Ronk- Green, Green Rocky Road

…and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… (Smithsonian Folkways)

Len Chandler- I’m Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Folk Era)

The Kennedys- The Sky Doesn’t Look Right

Headwinds (The Kennedys)

Sultans of String featuring Duke Redbird- Our Mother the Earth

Walking Through the Fire (Sultans of String)

Annie Gallup- The Sky at Night

Small Fortune (Flyaway Hair)

Too Sad for the Public- Hey Now (pt 1)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Last Forever- Buddy’s Blues

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

Too Sad for the Public featuring Ana Egge- Hey Now (pt 2)

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Wynton Marsalis- St. James Infirmary

Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens (Blue Engine)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 7. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 11, 2023: Hit Songs – Alternate Visions

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/61133.html

Theme: Hit Songs – Alternate Visions.

Chances are you’re familiar with most, if not all, of the songs on this show – but some of these versions might be new to you.

Toots & The Maytals- (Take Me Home) Country Roads

Funky Kingston (Mango)

Karen Dalton- When a Man Loves a Woman

In My Own Time: 50th Anniversary Edition (Light in the Attic)

Zazu- Stand By Me

S(w)inging Love (Temps)

Matthew Alexander- Spanish Harlem

Midnight Dream Station (Caravan)

Bruce Springsteen- Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)

Only the Strong Survive (Columbia)

Finest Kind- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle Music)

Chaim Tannenbaum, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Lily Lanken- Young Love

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Original Sloth Band- Get a Job

Whoopee After Midnight (Sloth)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- El Paso

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Mary McCaslin- Pinball Wizard

Old Friends (Philo)

The Refugees- Good Vibrations

California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

Gordon Lightfoot- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

David Clayton-Thomas- (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay

Soul Ballads (Antoinette)

Bettye LaVette- A Change is Gonna Come

Change is Gonna Come Sessions (Anti-)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Candida

A Touch on the Rainy Side (Stony Plain)

Bonnie Dobson- Everybody’s Talkin’

Bonnie Dobson (RCA)

Caroline Doctorow- Snowbird

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Queen Esther- Bohemian Rhapsody

Rona (EL)

Eva Cassidy with The London Symphony Orchestra- People Get Ready

I Can Only Be Me (Blix Street)

Arlo Guthrie- Can’t Help Falling in Love

More Together Again in Concert (Rising Son)

Duke Robillard- I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday

Six Strings of Steel (M.C.)

Next week: Seven Psalms and Other Songs of Paul Simon.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 28, 2023: Cowboys & Cowgirls

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/59884.html

Theme: Cowboys & Cowgirls.

Ian Tyson- Night Rider’s Lament

Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Andy Hedges featuring Corb Lund- Little Joe the Wrangler

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

Finest Kind- The Goodnight-Loving Trail

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Diamond Joe

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy Songs (Monitor)

The Sons of the Pioneers- Roving Cowboy

Tumbling Tumbleweeds: The Chart Years 1934-49 (Acrobat)

Peter Keane- Cool Water

Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)

Herb Jeffries with Take 6- Tumbling Tumbleweeds

The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again) (Warner Western)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Blue Shadows on the Trail

River of Swing (Arabica)

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)

Stan Rogers- Night Guard

Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Quartette- Cowboys and Rodeos

Quartette (Denon)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- All This Way for the Short Ride

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Katy Moffatt- Hallie Lonigan

Cowboy Girl (Western Jubilee)

Dom Flemons- He’s a Lone Ranger

Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)

Over the Moon- John Ware

Chinook Waltz (Borealis)

Odetta- When I was a Cowboy

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Lynn Miles- Palomino

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Me & My Uncle- Me and My Uncle

Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus Music)

Marty Robbins- El Paso

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (Columbia)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- I Ride an Old Paint

Son of the Wind (Rising Son)

Tom Rush- Windy Bill

Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO)

Eliza Gilkyson- Colorado Trail

Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

Asleep at the Wheel- I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)

Reinventing the Wheel (Bismeaux)

Mickey Katz & His Orchestra- Haim Afen Range (Home on the Range)

Strictly Kosher: The Singles Collection 1950-1962 (Jasmine)

Bill Frissell & Petra Haden- Happy Trails

When You Wish Upon a Star (Okeh/Masterworks)

Next week: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends.

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 15, 2022: The 50th Anniversary of my first concert production

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/58299.html

Theme: The 50th Anniversary of my first concert production.

This edition of Stranger Songs is an exercise in personal nostalgia. It was 50 years ago, on November 18, 1972, that I produced a concert for the first time – Bruce Murdoch was the headliner with Kevin Head opening at Dawson College. All the songs on this show are by a small sampling of the artists I presented in concerts at various venues in Montreal in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s.

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- Fool Like Me

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Kevin Head- Thanks Hank

Live (Kevin Head Music)

Danny Greenspoon- Ragged but Right

Unreleased live track – used with permission

Chris Rawlings- Pearl River Turnaround

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

Malvina Reynolds- On the Rim of the World

Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)

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

Utah Phillips- The Goodnight Loving Trail

The Telling Takes Me Home (Philo)

Rosalie Sorrels- Travelin’ Lady

Travelin’ Lady (Sire)

Jean Carignan- Snoring Gobeil

Jean Carignan (Philo)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Heart Like a Wheel

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Jesse Winchester- Defying Gravity

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Penny Lang- Spanish Moss

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

The Dumptrucks- Thinkin’ of Home

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Leon Redbone- Polly Wolly Doodle

On the Track (Warner Bros.)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Rock Island Line

Blues Masters, Vol. 5 (Storyville)

Odetta- You Gotta Know How

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

“Philadelphia” Jerry Ricks- Louis Collins

Deep in the Well (Rooster Blues)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2001) photo: Janice Hanson

Tom Paxton- I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Nanci Griffith- There’s a Light Beyond These Woods

There’s a Light Beyond These Woods (Philo)

Dave Van Ronk- Green, Green Rocky Road

…and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… (Smithsonian Folkways)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- St. James Infirmary

Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Quartette- Sentinel Crow

In the Beauty of the Day (Outside Music)

John Hartford- Gentle on My Mind

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

Stan Rogers- The Mary Ellen Carter

Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2017)

David Amram- The Water is Wide

A Tribute to Steve Goodman (Red Pajamas)

Next week: Songs for Holocaust Education Month.

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 19, 2022: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 2 – “New” Songs from the Archives

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56977.html

Theme: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 2 – “New” Songs from the Archives.

In the 1990s, Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s daughter who was then maintaining the Woody Guthrie Archives, discovered the lyrics to literally thousands of songs that Woody Guthrie wrote that he never set to music or whose tunes were never recorded and lost. Nora began to distribute sets of lyrics to contemporary musicians she thought would bring these songs to life. On this show, we’re listening to some of those songs.

Visit https://www.woodyguthrie.org/ for more information on Woody Guthrie.

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Folksong
Folksong (RTE 8)

Billy Bragg & Wilco- Walt Whitman’s Niece
Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
Folk Uke- California Stars
Starfucker (Folk Uke)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Little Blue Egg (Red House)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Birds and Ships
Postcards (Community Music)

The Del McCoury Band- The New York Trains
Del and Woody (McCoury Music)
Ellis Paul & Vance Gilbert- This Morning I am Born Again
Side of the Road (Philo)

The Klezmatics- Mermaid’s Avenue
Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)
Lisa Gutkin- Gonna Get Through This World
From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)
Wenzel- I Don’t Feel at Home on the Bowery No More
Ticky Tock: Wenzel Sings Woody Guthrie (Conträr Musik)
Jonatha Brooke- Madonna on the Curb
The Works (Bad Dog)

Mike Regenstreif, Nora Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson & Jimmy LaFave talking about Woody Guthrie at the 2007 Ottawa Folk Festival

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven
2020 (Red House)
Jimmy LaFave- Peace Town
Peace Town (Music Road)
Janis Ian- I Hear You Sing Again
Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection (Rude Girl)
Corey Harris- Teabag Blues
Greens from the Garden (Alligator)

John McCutcheon- Old Cap Moore
This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America (Appalsongs)
Madeleine Peyroux & Rob Wasserman- Wild Card in the Hole
Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429)
Joel Rafael Band- Dance a Little Longer
Woodeye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (Inside Recordings)
Lucinda Williams- House of Earth
Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)

Arlo Guthrie- My Peace
Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Next week: On the Road Again.

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