Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday October 19, 2013

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

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Pat Moore.

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. Today was my fourth time in the co-host’s chair and Pat Moore was sitting in for Chris White.

Guests: Paul Langille w/Paul Sims; Kevin Head

Bruce Murdoch- I Keep You in My Heart

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

Corin Raymond & the Sundowners- Time to Leave

Paper Nickels (Local Rascal)

Norah Jones w/Martha Wainwright & Rufus Wainwright- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Chris Rawlings- The Wild Goose

Autumn Gold (Chris Rawlings)

Dave Clarke- October

GuitarSongs (Crossties)

Robin & Linda Williams- Urge for Going

Back 40 (Red House)

Rick Fines- Goin’ Down the Road

Arcadia (Rick Fines)

The Boxcar Boys- Freight Train

Rye Whiskey (Fedora Upside Down)

Fafard & Schwartz- Solid Gone

Borrowed Horses (Joël Fafard & Joel Schwartz)

Ana Miura- Stone Solid Blue

Dancing Alone: Songs of William Hawkins (True North)

James Keelaghan- My Skies

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Laura Smith- John Keane’s Boys

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Finest Kind- Bully in the Alley

For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

Cooper Brothers- Love’s Been a Stranger

Southbound (Gunshy)

The next three songs punctuated Pat’s conversation with Paul Langille and Paul Sims.

Paul Langille- The Other One

Pine and Locke (Paul Langille)

Paul Langille w/Paul Sims- Road to Memphis

Live at CKCU

Paul Langille w/Paul Sims- Broken

Live at CKCU

The next four songs punctuated my conversation with Kevin Head.

Kevin Head & Mike Regenstreif (Photo: Vanessa Burnett)

Kevin Head- (Was That) Your Heart or Mine

Kevin Head Live (Kevin Head)

Kevin Head- Thanks Hank

Live at CKCU

Kevin Head- The Arrow

Live at CKCU

Kevin Head- Hands of Time

Live at CKCU

The show is now available for online listening. cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/14032.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on January 25.

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--Mike Regenstreif

The Boxcar Boys -- Don't Be Blue

This review is from the December 12, 2011 issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.

The Boxcar Boys

Don’t Be Blue

The Boxcar Boys

theboxcarboys.ca

The five musicians of the Boxcar Boys – one of whom is a woman – look like a klezmer band dressed in Depression-era clothing on the cover of their debut CD, Don’t Be Blue.

Their instrumentation of clarinet (John David Williams), trombone (Karl Silveira), sousaphone (Rob Teehan), violin (Laura C. Bates) accordion (Ronen Segall) is probably more klezmerish than any other style of music being played these days. And, they do sound very much like a klezmer band  on original numbers like “The Handcuff King” and “Waltz for Rotman,” both composed by Bates, or “Mugg’s Island” and “Jägerbomb Blues” by Williams.

But, this Toronto-based combo also draws on traditional jazz, folk, ragtime, and even country music. Two of the best tracks are an unusual and very haunting treatment of the country classic, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams, and a happy-sounding version of the 1920s jazz tune, “I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll.”

Great stuff!

--Mike Regenstreif