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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 16, 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/128/75390.html

Jay Linden- Coming Through
Under the Radar (Jay Linden)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Circle of Friends
Marblehead Morning – Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl: 50 Years in Harmony (Daring)
Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Walking in the Rain
Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)
Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- West Cork Hills
Hardscrabble Hope (Distant Whisper Music)
Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Camp Hambone
Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch
- Joshua (Rough Night in Jericho)
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days 
Journey Home (Red House)
Penny Lang & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Penny Lang- (Can I) Come Across to You
Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)
Bruce Murdoch- I’m at the Mercy of Your Smile
Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Le Vent du Nord- La Lettre
Voisinages (La Compagnie du Nord)
Satellite Birdhouse- Some Kind of Armour
Some Kind of Armour – single (Satellite Birdhouse)

Irish Millie- So Gone
Grace (Irish Millie)
Abigail Lapell- Sing a Rainbow
Shadow Child (Outside Music)
Sultans of String- A Place to Call Home
Symphony (Sultans of String)
Moonfruits- Carousel
Salt (Co-Op)

Hank Alrich- Don’t You Listen to That Man
Broken River (Walkinay Music Media)

Tom Chapin, John Forster & Friends- No Kings, No Kings
No Kings, No Kings – single (Ditties & Diatribes)

Tom Chapin & John Forster’s friends singing on No Kings,  No Kings include Abigail Chapin, Adam Falcon, Christine Lavin, David Amram, Guy Davis, Jessica Craven, Jessica Fishenfeld, John McCutcheon, Jon Cobert, Judy Collins, Lily Chapin, Michael Mark, Noel Paul Stookey, Reggie Harris, Shirley Crabbe & The Nyack Community Choir.

Hannah & Nathan- Little Bird
Love and Labour (Just Right Music)
Mary Gick- Waltz for Shelagh
Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)
Amy Melissen & Lee Stivers- Cornbread and Butterbeans
Something Tells Me Everything Will Be Alright (AMCTR)
Tony Rice- Banks of the Ohio
Tony Rice (Craft)

ES Pearl aka Ed Snodderly- Coming Down This Road
Baggage Flies Free (Majestic/Need to Know Music)
Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

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

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Into the Wild
Mount Olive (Frontera)
Tracy Grammer- Blue Wing
Book of Sparrows (Tracy Grammer)
Nanci Griffith & Ian Tyson- Canadian Whiskey
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Katy Moffatt- Amelia’s Railroad Flat
The Evangaline Hotel (Philo)

Nani Vazana- No Kero Madre (No Mother I Don’t Want)
Ke Haber (Noam Vazana) 
Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things 
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Bobby Dove- Dreamt I Met John Prine
Fortune Teller (New Motor)
John Prine- Egg & Daughter Night, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)
The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy)

Mike Regenstreif & Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics (2025)

The Klezmatics- Forty Year Freylekhs
We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)

The Klezmatics featuring Sofia Rei- Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)
We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)
Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2017)

The David Amram Quintet- Talking Subway
David Amram Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy)
Janis Ian- I Hear You Sing Again
From Me to You: Live in Bremen 2004 (MIG)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Story of Isaac
Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)
Sariyah Idan- Dance Me to the End of Love
Live in Berlin (Sariyah Idan)
Leonard Cohen- You Got Me Singing
Popular Problems (Columbia)
NEeMA- Sidewalk
Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- Corrina, Corrina
Night Drive (Snow Goose Songs)
Andy Cohen & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Eleanor Ellis, William Lee Ellis & Andy Cohen- Memphis Minnie and Me
Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard (Riverlark Music)
Todd Albright- Death of Ella Speed
Blues for Dexter Linwood (Misfortune)
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band- Wild About My Lovin’
Time (Resonatin’/Thirty Tigers)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka
- Welcome Home
unentitled (Red House)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 13. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 1, 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/128/72669.html

Presley Halle- Someday Soon
Off to Find a Sunny Day (Columbia)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
Judith (Elektra)
Clela Errington- I Know You Rider
Walkin’ Each Other Home (Clela Errington)
Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Statesboro Blues
Juba Dance (M.C.)
John Stewart- Chilly Winds
Cannons in the Rain/Wingless Angels (One Way)

Waylon Jennings- Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Songbird (Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers)
Lily Sazz- Isn’t That So
What Just Happened (Lily Sazz)
Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- All of Your Stories
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- Fool Like Me 
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings
- Songbird and Rainbow
Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Jory Nash & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Jory Nash- Me & You
The Light Still Shines on the Main (Thin Man)
Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- Portland Fancy
Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith (Hand & Heart Music)
Kate MacLeod- Fair Winds and Following Seas
Perennial (Westmoon)
Cosy Sheridan- The Breathing Room
The Breathing Room (Cosy Sheridan)

Paul Mills- The London Scratch
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & The Durham County Poets (2014)

Durham County Poets- St. James Infirmary
Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)
Sheesham & Lotus & 'Son- Michigan Water
Clear the Table (Sepiaphone)
Dave Van Ronk & The Red Onion Jazz Band- Sister Kate
Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy)
Maria Muldaur- Down Hill Pull
One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (NOLA Blues)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Hitched Together
Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)
Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- The Pine
Outamongum Again (Cowlick)
Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Caterpillar and the Butterfly
Always a Lady (Green Linnet)
John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka- First Snow on the Mountains
unentitled (Red House)
Becky Buller- A Hazy Shade of Winter
Songs That Sing Me (Dark Shadow Recording)

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Pine Beach
Survivor Tree (Bon Esprit Music) 
Kate Greenland- Longing & Dreaming of You
Longing and Dreaming (Kate Greenland)
Kate Weekes- Rideau Roots
Rideau Roots (Kate Weekes)
Bobby Dove- Golden Years
Hopeless Romantic (Bobby Dove)

Odetta, pianist Dave Keyes & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Odetta- Dink’s Blues
Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth
Bones of Trees (Vault)
Jez Lowe- Frozen Roman
Oubliette (Tantobie)
Mike Regenstreif & Mark Rubin on Zoom (2025)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Dog Whistle
Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)
Ellen Hamilton- I Don’t Need a Flag
Mending (Ellen Hamilton)
Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dark Night of the Soul
Dark Ages (Realiza)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant
Downpour (Lynn Miles)
Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (997)

Ian & Sylvia- Changes
Play One More (Vanguard)
Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- October
Paris (Zoe Cat Music)
Stacey Kent- Tis Autumn
The Boy Next Door (Candid)
Chris McKhool- Little Leaf
Little Leaf (Chris McKhool)

Leslie Jordan- The Agonist
The Agonist (Leslie Jordan Music)
Gretchen Peters- Five Minutes
The Show: Live from The UK (Scarlet Letter)
Caroline Marie Brooks- Vitamin
Everything at the Same Time (Caroline Brooks)
Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- The Lonesome Road
Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 (Fossil)

Alison Brown & Steve Martin- Friend of Mine
Safe Sensible and Sane (Compass)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on November 29. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Friday, June 20, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 24, 2025: 1965


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/595/70807.html

Theme: 1965.

All the recordings on this show were first released 60 years ago in 1965.

The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man
Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia)

The Beatles- In My Life
Rubber Soul (Parlophone)
Donovan- Sunny Goodge Street
Fairy Tale (Elite)
Martin Carthy- The Queen of Hearts
Martin Carthy (Topic)
Bert Jansch- Rambling’s Gonna Be the Death of Me
Bert Jansch (Castle)
Tom Jones- It’s Not Unusual
Along Came Jones (Decca)
Petula Claek- I Know a Place
The EP Collection (See for Miles)
The Zombies- She’s Not There
The Zombies (Parrot)
The Rolling Stones- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Out of Our Heads (London)

The Lovin’ Spoonful- Do You Believe in Magic
Do You Believe in Magic (Sony/Legacy)

The Beach Boys- California Girls
Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) (Capitol)
Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2014)

Bruce Murdoch
- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days
Singer-Songwriter Project (Elektra)
Carolyn Hester- Outward Bound
At Town Hall (Bear Family)
Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2001) photo: Janice Hanson

Tom Paxton- Hold On to Me Babe
Ain’t That News (Elektra)
Noel Paul Stookey & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Peter, Paul & Mary
- Early Morning Rain
See What Tomorrow Brings (Warner Bros.)
Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia
- Red Velvet
Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)

Phil Ochs Dodger Rag
I Ain’t Marching Anymore (Elektra)
Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Carry It On
Fifth Album (Elektra)
Mimi & Richard Fariña- Pack Up Your Sorrows
Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)
Mike Regenstreif & Joan Baez (2003)

Joan Baez- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Farewell, Angelina (Vanguard)
Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction
Eve of Destruction (Dunhill)

David Wiffen- Times are Getting Hard
At the Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC (Universal International)
Tom Rush- Solid Gone
Tom Rush (Elektra)
Fred Neil- Blues on the Ceiling
Bleecker & MacDougal (Elektra)
Jackson C. Frank- Blues Run the Game
Blues Run the Game (Mooncrest)

Aretha Franklin- Muddy Water
Yeah!!! (Columbia)
B.B. King- Every Day I Have the Blues
Live at The Regal (ABC)
Nina Simone- Trouble in Mind
Pastel Blues (Philips)

Oscar Peterson- Blues of the Prairies
Canadiana Suite (Verve)

Next week: Songs for Canada Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 27, 2025: “Songs of this kind should not need to be sung” with guest Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma


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/595/70383.html

Theme: “Songs of this kind should not need to be sung.”
Guest: Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma.

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth
Bones of Trees (Vault)

The line, “Songs such as these should not need to be sung,” comes from “Let’s Lay Down Our Drums,” a song written by Canadian songwriter Bruce Murdoch during the Vietnam War.

Bruce Murdoch- Let’s Lay Down Our Drums
33 1/3 Revolutions per Minute (Stormy Forest)
Eric Bibb- Masters of War
Migration Blues (Stony Plain)
Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Ukrainian Now 
Together (Appalsongs)
Artists for Action- Which Side Are You On? *
Which Side Are You On? – single (Bob Jensen)

*The Artists for Action singers and musicians are, in alphabetical order: Black Umfolosi, Ray Bonneville, Bruce Cockburn, Chris Corrigan, Guy Davis, Ani DiFranco, Maria Dunn, Adam Hill, Bob Jensen, James Keelaghan, Richard Knox, Lucy MacNeil, Tony McManus, Moulettes, Oysterband, Richard Perso, Heather Rankin, Martin Simpson, and Jon Weaver.

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and the Orange Clown
Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)
Resistance Revival Chorus featuring Rhiannon Giddens- All You Fascists Bound to Lose
This Joy (Righteous Babe)

The next three songs punctuated my conversation with Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma, recorded on May 2 via Zoom.

Mike Regenstreif & Mark Rubin on Zoom (2025)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma
- Dog Whistle
Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Blues for the Innocent
Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Goon with a Hammer (digital only bonus track)
Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Brendan Nolan- Packing Her Bag
Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song (AlmondSeed Media)
Shelley Posen- Packed
Mazel (Well Done Music)
Diana Jones with Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger & Zahara Phillips- We Believe You
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)
Liz Miller- New Normal
Love Bubble (Liz Miller)

James Talley- In These Times
Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)

Next week: Busking.

--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 17, 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/128/70266.html

Jim Rooney & Rooney's Irregulars- One Morning in May
My Own Ignorant Way (JRP)

Garland Frady- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Pure Country (Countryside)
Lisa Moscatiello- Biloxi
Second Avenue (Machine Heart)
The Frontmen- That’s a Touch I Like
The Frontmen (Rolltop Discs)
Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Skip Rope Song
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Tim Hardin- Yankee Lady
Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection (Columbia/Legacy)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Lake Isle of Innisfree/Song of the Wandering Aengus
Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)
Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978)

Priscilla Herdman- Reedy River
The Water Lily (Philo)
Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- The Outside Track
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart- Rebecca
Looking for the Thread (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Suzie Brown- Mothers and Daughters
Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)
Bettye LaVette- Mama, You Been On My Mind
Things Have Changed (Verve)
Schmaltz & Pepper- I’m Sorry Mama
Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Schmaltz & Pepper- Mozart the Mensch
Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Suzy Thompson- Louise
Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)
Suzy Thompson- Bride 1945
Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)
Paul Siebel- My Town
Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)
Suzy Thompson- Any Day Woman
Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)
Suzy Thompson- Long Afternoons
Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- I Shall Not Be Moved
They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Brown’s Dream
What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens- Swannanoa Tunnel/Steel-Driving Man
American Railroad (Nonesuch)

Carolyn Shulman- Old Farm House
Heart on a Wire (Carolyn Shulman)
Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Barbed Wire Boys
Bones of Trees (Vault)
Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Sam Ogan
Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Dance of Love and Death
Dance of Love and Death (EARecords)

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- Paris
Paris (Zoe Cat Music)
Terry Kitchen- Mona Lisa Blue
We All Dream (Urban Campfire Productions)

Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane- Bobbi & Gus
Double Takes (Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane)

Jill Sobule- The Last Line
Underdog Victorious: Deluxe Edition (Pinko)
Jill Sobule- A Good Life
F*ck the 7th Grade: Original Cast Recording (Jill Sobule)

Sarah Segal-Lazar- From Sea to Sea
Two If By Sea (Sarah Segal-Lazar)
NEeMA- Unwinding
Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)
Leonard Cohen- Traveling Light
You Want It Darker (Columbia)
Perla Batalla- You Want It Darker
A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Old Man Luedecke (2015)

Old Man Luedecke
- I Skipped a Stone
Easy Money (True North)
Robert Thomas & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen
- Kick the Can
The Way We Roll (Gas)
Brian Campbell- Comedy of Errors
Let’s Talk (Beedeecee Productions)
Ron Sowell- In Search of Some Creole Soul
Dance Till the Music Stops (Mountain Soul)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- Maximeline
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
Rees Shad- Porcelain Angel
Porcelain Angel (Shadville Music)
C. Daniel Boling- Wand’rin’ Again
It Matters (Berkalin)
Keith Sykes- Rich Wayfaring Stranger
Keith Sykes (Vanguard)

Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Reuben’s Blues
It’s Wonderful (Susie Arioli Swing Band)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 14. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif