Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 17, 2024: Hank Williams 101

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/595/66859.html

Theme: Hank Williams 101.

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is Hank Williams 101 as the air date for this show –  September 17, 2024 – is the 101st anniversary of the birth of Hank Williams. Hank was just 29 years old when he died on January 1, 1953, but his contributions to the history of music are immense. Most of the songs on this show were written by Hank Williams or are from his repertoire – the rest were inspired by him.

Hank Williams- Move It On Over

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Ball & Chain- I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Livin’

Trouble All the Time (Ball & Chain)

Robert Jones & Matt Watroba- Mind Your Own Business

Common Chords (Common Chords)

Hank Williams- Lost Highway

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Kevin Head- Thanks Hank

Live (Kevin Head Music)

Norah Jones- Cold, Cold Heart

Come Away with Me (Blue Note)

Leon Redbone- Long Gone Lonesome Blues

No Regrets (Sugar Hill)

Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Your Cheatin’ Heart

Martha Sings & Robert Plays (Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik)

Hank Williams- Moanin’ the Blues

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

John Gorka- Hank Senior Moment

The Company You Keep (Red House)

The Lonesome Ace Stringband- The Log Train

The Log Train – single (The Lonesome Ace Stringband)

The Wailin' Jennys- Weary Blues from Waiting

Fifteen (True North)

Jim Byrnes- Honky Tonk Blues

I Hear the Wind in the Wires (Black Hen Music)

Mose Allison- Hey, Good Lookin’

V-8 Ford Blues (Epic/Legacy)

Hank Williams- Settin’ the Woods on Fire

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Tom Russell- Hank and Audrey

Museum of Memories 1972-2002 (Dark Angel)

Sneezy Waters- Lovesick Blues

Sneezy Waters Sings Hank Williams (Borealis)

Steve Young- Ramblin’ Man

Stars in the Southern Sky (Omnivore)

Jim Rooney & Rooney's Irregulars- House of Gold

My Own Ignorant Way (JRP)

Hank Williams- I Saw the Light

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Lou Dominguez- Hank Songs at the Luna Star

Hanging at the Luna Star (Lou Dominguez)

Hans Theessink- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

Songs from the Southland (Blue Groove)

Saul Broudy- Alone and Forsaken

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

Linda Ronstadt- I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You)

Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol)

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band- Jambalaya

American Legacies (McCoury)

Hank Williams- My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Robin & Linda Williams- Rolling and Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams)

Devil of a Dream (Sugar Hill)

Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings- The Night Hank Williams Came to Town

Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)

Next week: Leonard Cohen at 90.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 10, 2023: Songs of Tom Waits

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/595/62260.html

Theme: Songs of Tom Waits.

Tom Waits- A Sight for Sore Eyes

Foreign Affairs (Elektra)

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- Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)

Closing Time (Elektra) 

Sneezy Waters- Invitation to the Blues

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Happy & Artie Traum- The Heart of Saturday Night

The Test of Time (Roaring Stream)

Claudia Schmidt- San Diego Serenade

Out of the Dark/New Goodbyes, Old Helloes (Flying Fish)

Tom Lewis- Shiver Me Timbers

Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer (Self Propelled Music)

Tom Waits- Semi Suite

The Heart of Saturday Night (Elektra)

VickiKristinaBarcelona- Cold Cold Ground

Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Dave Van Ronk- Jersey Girl

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)

The Once- The Briar and the Rose

The Once (Borealis)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Come on Up to the House

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Tom Waits- Long Way Home

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-)

Tom Russell- Downtown Train

Road to Bayamon (Philo)

Kimmie Rhodes & Willie Nelson- Picture in a Frame

Picture in a Frame (Sunbird)

Missy Burgess- Time

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Tom Waits- Closing Time

Closing Time (Elektra) 

Next week: Remembering Kate Wolf (1942-1986).

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday January 28, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

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

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/59164.html

Three songs in memory of David Crosby (1941-2023).

The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man

Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia)

Crosby, Stills & Nash- Long Time Gone

Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic)

David Crosby- Traction in the Rain

If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)

Ben Bedford- Leaping

Valley of Stars (Hopeful Sky)

Geoff Bartley- Talkin’ Jumping Frog Blues

The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)

Bob Jensen- Sit Down Young Stranger

For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

J.P. Cormier- Approaching Lavender

The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Flash Publishing)

Nicki Parrott- If You Could Read My Mind

If You Could Read My Mind (Arbors)

Gordon Lightfoot- Saturday Clothes

If You Could Read My Mind (Reprise)

The Vanier Playboys- Born in the Country

Deux (The Vanier Playboys)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Come on Up to the House

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

VickiKristinaBarcelona- Gun Street Girl

Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004) photo: Ron Petronko

David Amram- Waltz from After the Fall

No More Walls (Flying Fish)

Three songs in memory of Steve James (1950-2023).

Steve James- Stack Lee’s Blues

Boom Chang (Burnside)

Steve James- Buddy Bolden’s Blues

Art & Grit (Discovery)

Steve James & Del Rey- Tappin’ That Thing

Tonight (Hobemian)

Three songs in memory of Thad Beckman (1952-2023).

Thad Beckman- Lay My Burden Down

Blues Gone By (Thadzooks)

Thad Beckman- Street of Disaster

Streets of Disaster (Thadzooks)

Thad Beckman, Mike Regenstreif & Tom Russell (2012)

Thad Beckman & Tom Russell- Blue Wing

Streets of Disaster (Thadzooks)

Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- St. Olav’s Gate

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Danny Britt- Bar Stool

All Over the Map (Red Dawg Music)

Creedence Clearwater Revival- Bad Moon Rising

Green River (Fantasy)

The Dumptrucks- Closing Time

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Alex Cuba- Quiero Quedarme

Quiero Quedarme – single (Caracol)

Le Vent du Nord- L’auberge

20 Printemps (La Compagnie du Nord)

Christopher Mark Jones / Bernard Pozier- Rendez-vous sous la pluie

Montréal Encore (Small Batch Music)

Pat Guadango & Mary McCrink- Boots of Spanish Leather

1964 (Campbell Music)

Annie Capps- Learning

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Tim Ball- Sugar in the Gourd

Upstate Crossroads (Irelandville)

The next two songs punctuated my conversation with Christine Graves, recorded on January 17 via Zoom.

Christine Graves- Despite the News

Everyday Life (Christine Graves)

Christine Graves- Here’s My Song

Everyday Life (Christine Graves)

Four songs to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27).

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk- Sabina’s Letter: Some of Us Must Survive

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Brendan Nolan- Parallel Limbs

Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song (AlmondSeed Media)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Our feet are marching, two and two

Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Shelley Posen- Packed

Mazel (Well Done Music)

The Squirrel Hillbillies- Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long

Rhizomes (The Squirrel Hillbillies)

Bruce Cockburn- Whole Night Sky

Rarities (True North)

Lucie Blue Tremblay- The Paradise Club

So Many Wows (Maggie & Shanti Musique)

The Heart Collectors- Pieces II

Timeless Space (Spins the Gold)

Sue Horowitz- January

Strings, Wings and Curious Things (Sue Horowitz)

Bill Staines- January Snow

The First Million Miles, Volume II (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978) photo: Ron Petronko

Priscilla Herdman- January Thaw

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Michael Kaeshammer- Bourbon Street Parade

The Warehouse Sessions (Linus)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 25. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 16, 2022: It's Lake Time

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/595/57296.html

Theme: It’s Lake Time.

All the songs on this show have something or other to do with lakes.

Tim Grimm- The Lake
The Turning Point (Cavalier Recordings)

Willie Dunn & Mike Regenstreif (2009)

Shelley Posen- When I First Stepped in a Canoe

Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)
Connie Kaldor- Canoe Song
Wood River (Coyote)
Ball & Chain- Loon on the Lake
Bare Bones (Ball & Chain)
Willie Dunn- Wounded Lake
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)

Martin Simpson- Lakes of Champlain
Prodigal Son (Compass)
Marty Morrissey & Robert Resnik- The Alphabet Song of Lake Champlain
Old & New Songs of Lake Champlain (Marty Morrissey & Robert Resnik)

Mike Regenstreif, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop (2014)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- Au Bord de Lac Bijou
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Happy Traum- Lakes of Pontchartrain
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)
Nanci Griffith- Banks of the Pontchartrain
The Last of the True Believers (Philo)

Gordon Lightfoot- Christian Island (Georgian Bay)
Don Quixote (Reprise)
Stan Rogers- White Squall
From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Deborah Robins- The Keweenaw Light
Home Fires (Zippety Whippet)
Ian Tamblyn- Woodsmoke and Oranges
Through the Years [’76-‘92] (North Track)
Lee Murdock- Phantom Ships That Pass in the Night
The Lost Lake Sailors (Depot)

Huxtable, Christensen & Hood- Lake George 1922
Wallflowers (Philo)
David Woodhead- Summers at Rangeley Lake
Sweets and Conundrums (Woodhead Music)
Michael Jerling- Fishtrap Lake
Music Here Tonight (Fool’s Hill Music)
Christopher Shaw- North to Long Lake
Adirondack Serenade (Twining Tree)
Night Sun- This Lake
Home (Night Sun)

Bruce Cockburn- Deep Lake
Speechless: The Instrumental Bruce Cockburn (True North)

Next week: Music of My Montreal.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 23, 2022

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

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

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/55987.html

Anne Hills- Follow That Road
Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)

Steve Lundquist- Slow Down Sonny
My Life in Song (Steve Lundquist)
Jerry Jeff Walker- Then Came the Children
Too Old to Change (Elektra)
Paul Siebel- Jasper & the Miners
Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)

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

Steve Madewell- Early On In Life
Hometown Blues (Barnsongs)
Mary Chapin Carpenter- I Am a Town
One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)
Jefferson Ross- You Can’t Go Home Again
Southern Currency (Jefferson Ross)
Utah Phillips- Starlight on the Rails
Good Though! (Philo)

Willie Dunn- Broker
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
James Keelaghan- Cold Missouri Waters
History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Amy Speace- Cottonwood
Tuscon (Windbone)
Allison Russell- The Hunters
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Amy Speace- If You Fall
Tuscon (Windbone)

Dave Clarke- Simonne
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

John McCutcheon- Ukrainian Now
Ukrainian Now – single (Appalsongs)
Lee Oskar- Never Forget
Never Forget (Dreams We Share Productions)
Ina May Wool- Time of Trouble
Rewrite the Ending (Voice of Binky Music)
Susan Cattaneo- Hold Onto Hope
All is Quiet (Jersey Girl Music)

Bill Bourne- Seven Angels
Sally’s Dream (Ragged Pup)

Bruce Cockburn- Pacing the Cage
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)
Geneviève Racette- The Tide
Satellite (Geneviève Racette)
Lynne Hanson- This Heart of Mine
Ice Cream in November (Panda Cave)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Rick Fines- One Lone Loon
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)
Susan Crowe- I was Handsome, I was Young
A Pilgrim’s Mirror (Corvus)
Shari Ulrich- Canada
Back to Shore (Borealis)
Lynn Miles- My Road
Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Pat Moore & The Vinyl Frontier- Strange
Take It to Heart (Pat Moore)
Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Graveyard Shift
Live at the Bayou (Ball & Chain)
Shane Cook & The Woodchippers- The Little Contortionist
Be Here for a While (Shane Cook)

Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues- Counter Intuitive – Op. 24 Part Two
Different Voices (Dawnserly)

Rain Perry- Melody and Jack
A White Album (Precipitous)
Tom Prasada-Rao- Tenderness
Tenderness – single (Tom Prasada-Rao)
Josie Bello- The Sound of Guitars
Resilience (Josie Bello)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978) photo: Ron Petronko

Amy Bishop- Five Minutes
Perfect & Broken (Amy Bishop)
Priscilla Herdman- Millworker
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)
Annie Gallup- Harvey Moved to Queens
Harvey Moved to Queens – single (Galway Bay Music)

Martyn Joseph- Down to the Well
1960 (Pipe)
Stéphane Wrembel- Swing de Paris
The Django Experiment VI (Water is Life)
Sophie Milman- La Vie en Rose
Sophie Milman (Linus)
Ann Savoy & Her Sleepless Knights- Getting Some Fun Out of Life
If Dreams Come True (Memphis International)
Susie Arioli featuring Jordan Officer- Blue Skies
Night Lights (Spectra)

Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne- The Way She Loves a Man
Blues from Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain)
Kenny Neal featuring Rockin' Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters- Bon Temps Rouler
Straight from the Heart (Ruf)
The Duke Robillard Band with Sue Foley- No Good Lover
They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain)

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters- Blues for Duke Robillard
Mercy Me (Stony Plain)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 21. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday January 31, 2015

Mike Regenstreif & Chris White (Photo: Trish Murray)

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

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time).

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts.

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Guests: Charlie Angus; Leonard Youngfoot; Trish Murray

Michael Jerome Browne- Sliding Delta

Sliding Delta (Borealis)

Martin Grosswendt- Pay Day

Pay Day! (Martin Grosswendt)

Annie Lou- Tried and True

Tried and True (Annie Lou)

Bruce Murdoch- She Reminds Me of You

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

Grouyan Gombo- Poteau d’Automne

Pooyie J’te Dis! (Grouyan Gombo)

Ball & Chain and the Wreckers- Infinite Blue

Surrender (Ball & Chain)

Steel Rail- Prairie Sky

The Road Less Travelled (Crossties)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Big Fire

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Maria Dunn- Immigrant Dreams

Piece By Piece (Distant Whisper)

Jesse Winchester- Every Day I Get the Blues

A Reasonable Amount of Trouble (Appleseed)

Ana Miura- Only One

Cool is the Daylight (Ana Miura)

David Wiffen- Coast to Coast Fever

Coast to Coast Fever (United Artists) 

Grievous Angels- 22 Trailer Park

22 Trailer Park (Grievous Angels)

Charlie Angus & the Grievous Angels- Diamonds in the Snow

The Great Divide (Grievous Angels)

The Once- Sonny’s Dream

Departure (Nettwerk)

Priscilla Herdman- Turnaround
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Leonard Youngfoot- Winter Lady

Live in the studio

Leonard Youngfoot- Soft Light

Live in the studio

Old Man Luedecke- I Quit My Job

Hinterland (Black Hen)

Jamie O'Reilly & Michael Smith- Song of Bernadette

Songs of a Catholic Childhood (J. O’Reilly Productions)

The show is now available for online listening. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/20539.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on March 14.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif