Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 12, 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 the Saturday Morning show.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/61559.html

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- Mr. Tambourine Man

Trail Three (Music Road)

In memory of Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023)

Sinéad O’Connor- Rivers of Babylon

Theology: Dublin Sessions (Koch)

Kris Kristofferson- Sister Sinéad

Closer to the Bone (New West)

Sinéad O’Connor- The Parting Glass

Sean-Nós Nua (Vanguard)

John Hartford- The Tall Tall Grass

Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)

Chris Coole & John Showman- The Long Hot Summer Days

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Rob Moose- Uncle Bunting (pt 1)

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

Katie Dahl- Temperance River

Seven Stones (Leaky Boat)

Ed Snodderley- Just Like You River

Chimney Smoke (Need to Know Music)

Michael Jerome Browne with Mary Flower- I’ve Got the Big River Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Mara Levine- River

Jewels and Harmony (Mara’s Creations)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- Cripple Creek

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

Shannon Leigh Reynolds- The Piney Wood Hills

Triple Shot (Good Bygone)

Eva Cassidy with The London Symphony Orchestra- Tall Trees in Georgia

I Can Only Be Me (Blix Street)

Penny Lang- Spanish Moss

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Rayna Gellert & Chaim Tannenbaum- Uncle Bunting (pt 2)

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

Eliza Gilkyson- Sunflowers

Home (Realiza)

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi- Song of Berhomet

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc)

Annie & Rod Capps- Anything but You

Love and Rain (Yellow Room)

The Bombadils- Through and Through

Dear Friend (The Bombadils)

Raye Zaragoza- Bittersweet

Hold That Spirit (Rebel River)

Aleksi Campagne- Prairie Wind

For the Giving/Sans Rien Donner (Aleksi Campagne)

Connie Kaldor- Bigger Than Anywhere Else

Out of the Blue (Coyote)

Hart Rouge- Destination

Beaupré’s Home (Highway 13 Musique)

Al Qahwa- Salma Ya Salama (Peace and Safety)

Weyn Allah (Al Qahwa)

Aviva Chernick- La Serena

La Serena (Aviva Chernick)

Dave Gunning- The Same Storm

The Same Storm (Wee House of Music)

Allison Lupton- Away

Words of Love (Allison Lupton Music)

Rachel Anne Goodman- Waiting for the Rain

California Morning (Coastridge)

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi- Melody from Livonia

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc)

Joy Zimmerman- How Shall We Sing

Where the Light Lives (Cultivate Joy)

Kari Bremnes- Anna Olsen

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Tom Russell- Rider on an Orphan Train

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Kari Bremnes- Anna Olsen’s Letter Home

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Mountain City Four- This Train

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Eric Bibb- Sinner Man

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Bob & Sarah Amos- Wayfaring Stranger

Ever Onward (Bristlecone)

Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- He Ain’t Got Rhythm

I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Road of Stone

Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)

Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble featuring Martha Wainwright- There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears

Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke (Edge Music)

Too Sad for the Public- Uncle Bunting (pt 3)

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

Teeyum Smith- Crash and Burn

Participating at Last (Teeyum Smith)

Joe Crookston- Blue Light

Nine Becomes One (Chapters 9 & 8) (Milagrito)

Crowes Pasture- If I Should Fall Behind

Don’t Blink (Crowes Pasture)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- I’d Walk a Thousand Miles

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Steve Howell- Dallas Rag

Gallery of Echoes (Out of the Past Music)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday December 13, 2022: Songs of Joni Mitchell

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/595/58616.html

Theme: Songs of Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is one of the most influential and popular of all the artists who came out of the 1960s folk scene.

Joni Mitchell- Marcie

Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)

Tom Rush- Tin Angel

The Circle Game (Elektra)

Caroline Herring- Cactus Tree

Golden Apples of the Sun (Signature Sounds)

Tigger Outlaw- Songs to Aging Children

Alice’s Restaurant soundtrack (Ryko)

Joni Mitchell- Roses Blue

Clouds (Reprise)

Pete Seeger- Both Sides Now

Young vs. Old (Columbia)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- The Circle Game

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

Joni Mitchell- Rainy Night House

Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise)

Herbie Hancock & Leonard Cohen- The Jungle Line

River: The Joni Letters (Verve)

Judy Collins- That Song About the Midway

Portrait of an American Girl (Wildflower)

Colleen Kattau- The Last Time I Saw Richard

The Last Time I Saw Richard – single (Windlight Studios)

Joni Mitchell- For the Roses

For the Roses (Asylum)

Dave Van Ronk- Urge for Going

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

Lilli Lewis- River

River – single (Louisiana Red Hot)

Herbie Hancock & Norah Jones- Court and Spark

River: The Joni Letters (Verve)

Joni Mitchell- Help Me

Court and Spark (Asylum)

Marianne Trudel & Karen Young- Cherokee Louise

Portraits: Songs of Joni Mitchell (Productions Marianne Trudel)

Terri Camilari- Magdalene Laudries

Magdalene Laundries – single (Terri Camilari)

Joni Mitchell- Little Green

Blue (Reprise)

Joni Mitchell- The Silky Veils of Ardor

Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (Asylum)

Next week: Happy Holidays.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 27, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons 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 – Episode #12 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51764.html

 

Theme: April in Paris

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong- April in Paris
Ella and Louis (Verve)
Christine Albert- Mademoiselle de Paris
TexaFrance-Encore! (MoonHouse)
Don Armstrong- Going to Paris
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)

Ronney Abramson- Jukebox of Paris
Jukebox of Paris (Castor Island Music)
Martha Wainwright- Le Métro de Paris
San Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris: Martha Wainwright’s Piaf Record (MapleMusic)
Kat Goldman- Letter from Paris
Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)
Melody Gardot- From Paris with Love
Sunset in the Blue: Deluxe Edition (Decca)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- Guess Who I Saw in Paris
Illuminations (Vanguard)
Nicki Parrott- The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Last Time I Saw Paris (Venus)
Joni Mitchell- Free Man in Paris
Court and Spark (Elektra)
Gordon Fleming- Parisian Thoroughfare
According to Gordie (Just a Memory)
Andrew Calhoun- A Hoosier in Paris
Shadow of a Wing (Waterbug)

Eric Andersen- Trouble in Paris
The Essential Eric Andersen (Real Gone Music)
Nikki Matheson- It’s Still Raining in Paris
Invisible Angel (Nikki Matheson)
Claribol Stompers- Swing de Paris
Swingattic (Claribol)
Jacques Labrecque- À Paris, sur le petit pont
Folk Songs of France and French Canada (Folkways)

Mike Regenstreif & Erik Frandsen (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Lenka Lichtenberg with Fray- Pigeons in Paris
Embrace (Sunflower)
The Hot Sardines- I Love Paris
Live at Joe’s Pub (The Hot Sardines)
Erik Frandsen- Another Song About Paris
The Greenwich Village Folk Festival 1989-1990 (Gadfly)
Erroll Garner- Paris Bounce
Paris Impressions (Columbia)

Marianne Faithfull- No Moon in Paris
Negative Capability (BMG)
Jacques Brel- Les Prénoms de Paris
The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)
The Swing Commanders- Bye Bye Paris
Steelin’ Back (North Western)

Duke Ellington- Paris Blues
Midnight in Paris (Columbia)

Next week – The Second Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 2, 2019

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. 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 at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/41414.html

Anne Hills & Michael Smith- The Dutchman

Paradise Lost and Found (Red Wing)

Buffy Sainte-Marie will be honoured with the People’s Voice Award at the International Folk Music Awards on February 13 during the Folk Alliance International Conference in Montreal.

Buffy Sainte-Marie- Groundhog

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

Penny Lang- Johnny Be Fair

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Eric Andersen- Universal Soldier

The Street was Always There (Appleseed)

Buffy Sainte-Marie- My Country ‘tis of thy People You’re Dying

Medicine Songs (True North)

Leonard Cohen will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award (Legacy) at the International Folk Music Awards on February 13 during the Folk Alliance International Conference in Montreal.

Leonard Cohen- Suzanne

Live in London (Columbia)

Mara Levine w/Caroline Cutroneo- Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

Facets of Folk (Mara’s Creations)

SONIA disappear fear- Hallelujah

By My Silence (Disappear Records)

Leonard Cohen- Dance Me to the End of Love

Live in London (Columbia)

Joni Mitchell will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award (Living) at the International Folk Music Awards on February 13 during the Folk Alliance International Conference in Montreal.

Joni Mitchell- Rainy Night House

Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise)

Katherine Rondeau- Urge for Going

Unfortunate Point of View (Katherine Rondeau)

Dave Van Ronk- Both Sides Now

The Mayor of MacDougal Street: Rarities 1957-1969 (Rootstock)

Joni Mitchell- For the Roses

For the Roses (Elektra)

Extended feature: Songs of Robert Johnson – The next 16 songs were originally recorded by Robert Johnson (1911-1938) in 1936 and ’37.

Robert Johnson- Cross Road Blues

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Pinetop Perkins- Sweet Home Chicago

Dealin’ with the Devil: Songs of Robert Johnson (Cannonball)

Missy Burgess- Come On In My Kitchen

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Rick Fines- Love in Vain

Live at the Harvest (Rick Fines)

Robert Johnson- Phonograph Blues

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Guy Davis- Walkin’ Blues

Stomp Down Rider (Red House)

David Rea- Travelin’ Riverside

Shorty’s Ghost (Gitsu)

Paul Geremia- Terraplane Blues

The Devil’s Music (Red House)

Robert Johnson- Malted Milk

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Colin Linden- They’re Red Hot

Sad & Beautiful World 1975-1999 (True North)

Lucinda Williams- Ramblin’ On My Mind

Ramblin’ (Smithsonian Folkways)

Taj Mahal- Dust My Broom

Taj Mahal (Columbia/Legacy)

Robert Johnson- Stones in My Passway

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Paul Asbell- From Four Until Late

From Adamant to Atchafalaya (Busy Hands Records)

Rory Block- Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)

The Lady and Mr. Johnson (Rykodisc)

David Essig- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day

Rolling Fork to Gallows Point (Watershed)

Reggie Harris- Hickory Hill

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Lois Deloatch- Hymn to Freedom

Hymn to Freedom: Homage to Oscar Peterson (Improv Media)

Dawn Tyler Watson w/Patrick Lehman- Shine On

Jawbreaker (Dawn Tyler Watson)

John McCutcheon w/members of Beausoleil- If I Had a Hammer

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

Tom Russell- October in the Railroad Earth

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Jack Kerouac w/Steve Allen- Readings from ‘On the Road’ and ‘Visions of Cody’

The Kerouac Collection (Rhino)

David Amram w/Lynn Sheffield- Pull My Daisy

No More Walls (Flying Fish)

Ian Robb- They’re Taking it Away

From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Ray Harris- Pontiac County Blues

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Ashley & Simpson- Little Liza Jane

Off to Here Land (Ashley & Simpson)

Tom Russell- Isadore Gonzalez

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

David Amram w/Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Going North

No More Walls (Flying Fish)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on March 2.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Helen Verger Award

Mike Regenstreif receives the Helen Verger Award from Mark Monahan.

I was humbled and honoured this past weekend to be this year’s recipient of the Helen Verger Award from the Ottawa Folk Festival.

Named in honour of the late Helen Verger, the founder of Rasputin’s Folk Café in Ottawa, the award is presented annually to “to an individual who has made significant, sustained contributions to folk/roots music in Canada.”

Year after year at the Ottawa Folk Festival, I’ve seen the Helen Verger Award presented to an incredible collection of folks and, every year, I’ve thought to myself what great choices each was for the award. Almost all of them have been people I know – including many friends. In the Weavers’ version of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” they sing, “We are travelling in the footsteps of those who’ve gone before,” and, indeed, it is such a great privilege to see my name join theirs in the list of Helen Verger Award recipients:

Murray McLauchlan (1995); Colleen Peterson and Sylvia Tyson (1996); Bruce Cockburn (1997); Ferron and Ian Tamblyn (1998); Chopper McKinnon (1999); Garnet Rogers (2000); Kate & Anna McGarrigle (2001); Buffy Sainte-Marie (2002); Jane Siberry (2003); Jackie Washington (2004); Willie P. Bennett (2005); Arthur McGregor (2006); Penny Lang (2007); Chalmers Doane (2008); Paul Mills (2009); Harvey Glatt (2010); Gene Swimmer (2011); Chris White (2012); Lynn Miles (2013); Mike Regenstreif (2014).

Thank you so much to the Ottawa Folk Festival, to Mark Monahan and to Ana Miura, for this tremendous honour.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif