Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 17, 2025: Music for 88 Keys

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/595/70697.html

Theme: Music for 88 Keys – all of the songs and instrumentals feature the piano as a primary instrument.

Philip Dyson- The Entertainer

Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works (Decca)

Perla Batalla- Sisters of Mercy

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Time On My Hands

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Pink Martini with Rufus Wainwright & The Von Trapps- Kitty Come Home

Get Happy (Audiogram)

Last Forever- Lonesome Day

Acres of Diamonds (StorySound)

Hoyle Osborne- The Baltimore Todalo

Panazon: Pan American Café Music (Ripple)

Odetta & Dr. John- Oh Papa

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Jay McShann with Johnnie Johnson- Kansas City (Revisited)

Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)

Alberta Hunter- Always

Amtrak Blues (Columbia)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Mary Chapin Carpenter with Anais Mitchell- Home is a Song

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Rosalie Sorrels- Moments of Happiness

Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Suzie Brown- Songs are My Tears

Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)

Jesse Winchester- The Easy Way

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Lee Hunter & The Gatherers- Farewell, Farewell

Beneath My Feet (Birds Tale)

Penny Lang- Nama Says

Yes (She-Wolf)

Julian Fauth- Bad John

The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong (Electro-Fi)

Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Chicago House Rent Party

Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)

Count Basie & Oscar Peterson- S & J Blues

Satch and Josh (Pablo)

Next week: 1965.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 30, 2024

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/128/67920.html

Willie Nelson- Last Leaf

Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (1994)

Tom Paxton- Has Annie Been in Tonight

Up & Up (Mountain Railroad)

Bob Dylan- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song

Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Paxton- When Annie Took Me Home

New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)

Laurie Lewis- Central Square

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Smoker’s Lullaby

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Defying Gravity

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Purify My River

Ronney Abramson (Capitol)

Bruce Murdoch- (Can I) Come Across to You

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Kevin Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) photo: Vanessa Burnett

Kevin Head- Digby Lament

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- The Ring

Recordings Celebrating 50 Years of a Musical Partnership (Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl) 

Neale Eckstein- The Lighthouse (NE & Eric Schwartz)

Never Too Late (Neale Eckstein)

Howard Gladstone- Sea of Sorrow

Crazy Talk (Howard Gladstone)

Carolyn Shulman- No Sad Songs

Heart on a Wire (Carolyn Shulman)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Man with the Pain

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Paul Mills- Stubbs Stomp

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Rufus Wainwright & Anohni- Going to a Town

Folkocracy (BMG)

Ferron- It Won’t Take Long

Shadows on a Dime (Lucy)

Moonfruits- Brittle Earth

Salt (Co-Op)

Jay Linden- Dreamers on a Sailing Ship

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Albert & Gage- I Used to be Lonesome

Burnin’ Moonlight (MoonHouse)

Efrat- We Just Need Love

We Just Need Love (Efrat)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Soap and Powder

Old Cloth (Yabut Music)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Pine

Live at the Great American Music Hall (Flying Fish)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places

Sparkle and Shine (Front Hall)

Michael Jerome Browne & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Where is the Song?

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Paul Geremia & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Paul Geremia- Kick It in the Country

Self Portrait in Blues (Red House)

Little Birdie (Orit Shimoni)- Can’t Stop This Train

Bare Bones (Little Birdie)

Perla Batalla- Awakened

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Leonard Cohen- By the Rivers Dark

Ten New Songs (Columbia)

Perla Batalla- Take This Waltz

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Chris Rawlings- Lifting the Darkness

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Come Back Baby

Pronto Monto (Omnivore)

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

Chaim Tannenbaum- Belfast Louis Falls in Love

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- All on a Belfast Morning

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2014)

Bruce Murdoch- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days

Singer-Songwriter Project (Elektra)

Kat Goldman- Take It Down the Line

The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Kurt Anderson- 900 Miles

Life on Interstate 40 (Riverlark Music)

Sonya Cohen Cramer- No Place to Fall

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Grayson Capps- Columbus Stockade Blues

Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)

The Wailin' Jennys- The Parting Glass

40 Days (Jericho Beach Music)

I’m taking some time off in December so I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on January 25. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 7, 2024

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/128/66757.html

Jay Linden- Blue Skies of September

Satchel (Jay Linden)

Steel Rail- That’s How the Summer Slips Away

River Song (Crossties)

Garnet Rogers- Summer’s End

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

David Francey- Far End of Summer

Far End of Summer (Laker)

Jim Rooney with Happy Traum, Bill Keith & Tony Brown- Done Laid Around (Gotta Travel On)

Mud Acres: Music Among Friends (Rounder)

Aaron Burdett- The Same River Twice

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

Della Mae & Tom Paxton- I Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- Little Betty Ann/Kitchen Girl/Midu Mountain Song

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Carolyn Shulman- Little Sparrow

Heart on a Wire (Carolyn Shulman)

Kate McDonnell- Hard Heart

Trapeze (Dog Eared Discs)

Bill & Colleen Cade- Saturday Morning

Bill & Colleen Cade (Bill & Colleen Cade)

Bill Staines- Lone Star Hotel Café

Old Dogs (Red House)

Bill Hearne- The Cape

Always Trust Your Cape (Howlin’ Dog) 

Guy Clark- Picasso’s Mandolin

Boats to Build (Asylum)

Portage- Mrs. Belle’s Set

Portage (Portage)

Greg Blake- Leaving London

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Tell My Sister

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Chaim Tannenbaum- London, Longing for Home

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Jack Nissenson/Mountain City Four- Shenendoah

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Rufus Wainwright- Darling This Will Never Do

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

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

Priscilla Herdman- No Telling

The Road Home (Redwing Music)

Robin Holcomb- Kind Treatment

One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies)

Teni Rane- Goldenrod

Goldenrod (Teni Rane)

Hana Zara- Anabelle

Bloom Where You Fall (People of Orphalese)

Cat Power- Desolation Row

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Larry & Joe featuring Mati Mormandi- Adiós Muchacho

Manos Panamericanos (Larry & Joe)

Durham County Poets- Hand Me Down Blues

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Kokomo Alley

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Duke Robillard- Boogie Woogie Country Girl

Roll With Me (Stony Plain)

Colin James- In My Own Dream

Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif & Durham County Poets (2014)

Durham County Poets- I’ve Been Living with the Blues

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Elvis Presley- That’s All Right

Memphis (RCA/Legacy)

Mountain City Four- Mean Old Frisco

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup- Greyhound Bus

Mean Ole Frisco (Collectables)

Elvis Presley- My Baby Left Me

Memphis (RCA/Legacy)

Lynne Hanson- Weeds

Just a Poet (Lynne Hanson)

Larry Folk- Madeira Way

Lessen the Blue (Folkscript Music)

Rosanne Cash- Biloxi

Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester (Mailboat)

Bailey Bigger- Mississippi You’re On My Mind

Coyote Red (Madjack)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Midnight Bus

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Alice Gerrard- The Things I Notice Now

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Peace Will Come

Politics Live (Flying Fish)

Alison Brown- Leaving Cottondale

Simple Pleasures (Compass)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 11, 2024: Songs for Fathers

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/595/65476.html

Theme: Songs for Fathers

Al Regenstreif 1926-2016 (father) & Mike Regenstreif (son)

Judy Collins- My Father

Forever: An Anthology (Elektra)

Amy Speace- Father’s Day

There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)

Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- What My Father Taught Me

Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus Music)

Ben Sures- Father’s Shoes

The Story That Lived Here (Ben Sures)

Boreal- Warm Hands

Recorded for a future album release

Michael Smith- I Brought My Father With Me

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

Nanci Griffith- Daddy Said

Once In a Very Blue Moon (Philo)

Steve Howell, Dan Sumner & Jason Weinheimer- Song for My Father

Long Ago (Out of the Past)

Guy Clark- Randall Knife

Craftsman (Philo)

The Smith Sisters- My Father was a Quiet Man

A Canary’s Song (Flying Fish)

Tom Russell- Throwing Horseshoes at the Moon

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Chaim Tannenbaum- My Old Man

Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Compass)

Rosanne Cash- My Old Man

Rhythm & Romance (Columbia)

Ron Hynes- My Old Man

Get Back Change (Borealis)

Steve Goodman- My Old Man

No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology (Red Pajamas)

Jamie Anderson- My Dad Loves to Sing

Better Than Chocolate (Tsunami)

Heather Anne Lomax- Bits and Pieces

The Doman Tracks (Blackbird)

Brian Lemco- For EL

Seasons (Brian Lemco Music)

Loudon Wainwright III- Older Than My Old Man Now

Older Than My Old Man Now (StorySound)

Ruby Lovett- A Father’s Love

It’s a Hard Life (Puff Bunny)

Tim Grimm- Reverend Mr. Black

Names (Wind River).

James Talley- The Dreamer (A Song for My Father)

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Next week: 50 years ago, I took over The Golem, part 2.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 16, 2024: New York State of Mind

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/595/64765.html

Theme: New York State of Mind

All the songs on this show have something or other to do with New York City.

Tony Bennett & Billy Joel- New York State of Mind

Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (RPM/Columbia)

Bob Dylan- Talkin’ New York

Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Tex König- Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche- Bleecker Street

Mud & Apples (Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche)

Garnet Rogers- American Jerusalem

The Outside Track (Snow Goose Songs)

Orit Shimoni- New York 

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni) 

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2017)

David Amram & The Colorado Symphony Orchestra- Variation VI: Street Sounds of New York B) Klezmer Wedding Celebration and Middle Eastern Bazaar

This Land: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie (Newport Classic)

Suzanne Vega- New York is My Destination

An Evening of New York Songs and Stories (Cooking Vinyl)

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

Erik Frandsen- Unique New York 

Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen) 

Christine Lavin- Another New York Afternoon

The Seasons Project: Spring (Christine Lavin) 

Tom Russell- Biggest Bordertown

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Mike Regenstreif & Chaim Tannenbaum (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

The Klezmatics- Mermaid’s Avenue

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

Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars featuring Michel “Meshach” Nestor- Unity (Carnival in Crown Heights) 

Chronika (Borscht Beat) 

Mike Regenstreif & Lucy Kaplansky (2012)

Lucy Kaplansky- Brooklyn Train

The Red Thread (Red House)

Nat King Cole- Harlem Blues

St. Louis Blues (Capitol)

Reggie Harris- Harlem Renaissance

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Lena Horne & Harry Belafonte- There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon for New York

Porgy & Bess (RCA)

Harry Nilsson- I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City

Harry (RCA)

Chava Alberstein- Fellini in New York 

End of the Holiday (Rounder) 

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Goodnight, New York

The Road Home (Redwing Music)

Frank Sinatra- (Theme from) New York, New York

The Reprise Collection (Reprise)

Next week: Songs of Shel Silverstein.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 12, 2024: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 2

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/595/64251.html

Theme: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 2.

The songs on this show are all between six and 10 minutes in length.

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Song of the Old Bush Pilot

Northern Spirits (Cooking Fat Music)

Ian Tamblyn- Tiger Lily Road

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

Marc Nerenberg- Ma Creole Belle

On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)

Allison Russell- Requiem

The Returner (Fantasy)

Cat Power- Visions of Johanna

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Tom Russell, Eliza Gilkyson & Joe Ely- Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- Follow That Road

Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)

Eric Von Schmidt- The Captain

Baby, Let Me Lay It On You (Gazell)

Chaim Tannenbaum- London, Longing for Home

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Bruce Murdoch- In the Simplest of Ways

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

James Talley- In These Times

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

The first volume of The Art of the Long Song was heard on the March 29, 2022 edition of Stranger Songs and can be streamed from the playlist at this link. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/55701.html

Next week: Music.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 6, 2024: A Tribute to Odetta

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/595/63807.html

Theme: A Tribute to Odetta (1930-2008).

Odetta, the magnificent and highly influential African American folk and blues singer, who died in 2008 at the age of 77, was born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama. She originally trained to be an opera singer and her earliest professional jobs were in musical theatre. In 1949, while singing in the touring company of Finian’s Rainbow, she met some folksingers and fell in love with the genre. From then on, she turned her attention to folk and blues, performing concerts and recording prolifically starting in the mid-1950s.

I met Odetta for the first time in 1977 in the hallway of the hotel we were staying at during the Philadelphia Folk Festival. I was there with Priscilla Herdman, who knew Odetta, and when she introduced us, Odetta gave me one of her big hugs. In the 1980s, I brought Odetta to The Golem, the folk club I ran in Montreal, numerous times.

Odetta, pianist Dave Keyes & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

The last time I got to work with Odetta was when I hosted a workshop with her at the 2008 Ottawa Folk Festival, just a few months before she passed away. I was deeply honored when she told me that my friendship over the years meant a lot to her.

All of the songs on this show were from Odetta’s repertoire.

Odetta- Stranger Here

Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)

Lead Belly with The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet- Alabama Bound

Take This Hammer – When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 5 (Bluebird)

Bessie Smith- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

Bessie Smith: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection (Big3)

Josh White- House of the Rising Sun

The Josh White Stories, Vols. I & II (Jasmine)

Odetta- Roberta

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

Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come & Go with Me/I’m On My Way

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Gina Coleman- Glory Glory

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One) 

Kim & Reggie Harris- Wade in the Water

Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)

Odetta- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Odetta at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)

Bob Dylan- No More Auction Block

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 [Rare & Unreleased] 1961-1991 (Columbia)

Odetta- Blowin’ in the Wind

Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Rhiannon Giddens- Waterboy

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- The Midnight Special

A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Centre (Appleseed)

Coco Love Alcorn- This Little Light of Mine

Rebirth (Coco Love Alcorn)

Odetta & The Holmes Brothers- Down By the Riverside

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Tom Jones- Hit or Miss

Spirit in the Room (Island)

Penny Lang- Careless Love

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Misty Blues- Go Down, Sunshine

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One) 

Odetta & Dr. John- Oh Papa

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Odetta- Goodnight Irene

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

Next week: A Tribute Jelly Roll Morton on Mardi Gras Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 15, 2023: Remembering Tony Bennett

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.

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/595/61550.html

Theme: Remembering Tony Bennett (1926-2023).

Tony Bennett (photo: Mark Seliger)

Tony Bennett, the great jazz and pop singer, died on July 21, less than two weeks before his 97th birthday. All the songs on this show were part of Bennett’s repertoire.

Tony Bennett- Let’s Begin

The Beat of My Heart (Columbia)

Peggy Lee- I Left My Heart in San Francisco

I’m a Woman: Expanded Edition (Capitol)

Willie Nelson- Let’s Face the Music and Dance

Let’s the Face the Music and Dance (Legacy)

Diana Krall- East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)

When I Look in Your Eyes (Verve)

Tony Bennett & Bonnie Raitt- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (RPM/Columbia)

Tony Bennett & The Count Basie Orchestra- Anything Goes

Count Basie Swings/Tony Bennett Sings (Roulette)

Mariane Faithfull- Boulevard of Broken Dreams

20th Century Blues (RCA)

David Clayton-Thomas- When I Fall in Love

Combo (Antionette)

Tony Bennett- Just One of Those Things

Love for Sale (Columbia/Interscope)

Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven (Justin Time)

Jackie Washington, Ken Whiteley & Mose Scarlett- A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet

Where Old Friends Meet (Pyramid)

Holly Cole- Whatever Lola Wants

Montreal (Universal)

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga- Love for Sale

Love for Sale (Columbia/Interscope)

Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse- Body and Soul

Duets II (Columbia)

Missy Burgess- Smile

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Chaim Tannenbaum- It’s Only a Paper Moon

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Sophie Milman- I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby

Sophie Milman (Linus)

Dave Van Ronk- As Time Goes By

Sweet & Lowdown (Justin Time)

Tony Bennett- Play It Again, Sam

I’ve Gotta Be Me (Columbia)

Tony Bennett- Blues in the Night

Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (RPM/Columbia)

Catherine Russell- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

Bring It Back (Jazz Village)

Steve Howell, Dan Sumner & Jason Weinheimer- Do Nothing ‘til You Hear From Me

Long Ago (Out of the Past)

Tony Bennett & K.D. Lang- Keep the Faith Baby

Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (RPM/Columbia)

Tony Bennett & The Count Basie Orchestra- Are You Having Any Fun

Strike Up the Band (Roulette)

Next week: Remembering Robbie Robertson (1943-2023). 

--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

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday June 17, 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.

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/128/60881.html

 

The Persuasions- Mr. Tambourine Man

Knockin’ On Bob’s Door (Zoho)

Stan Rogers- The Last Watch

From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Tex König- Northwest Passage

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Ian Robb- Make and Break Harbour

From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Priscilla Herdman- Forty-Five Years

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Stan Rogers- The Flowers of Bermuda

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

Artisan- Mary Ellen Carter

Driving Home (Bedspring Music)

Mountain City Four- The Log Driver’s Waltz

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Moonshiner

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Rufus Wainwright with Anna McGarrigle, Chaim Tannenbaum, Lily Lanken, Lucy Wainwright Roche & Martha Wainwright- Wild Mountain Thyme

Folkocracy (BMG)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Apostrophe to the Wind

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Vance Gilbert- Honeysuckle Fences

The Mother of Trouble (Vance Gilbert)

Rod MacDonald & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Rod MacDonald- Enough About Me

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Kin Ya See That Sun

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Larry & Joe- Los Doce

Nuevo South Train (Larry & Joe)

The Refugees- Monday Monday

California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

Rufus Wainwright with Susanna Hoffs, Chris Stills & Sheryl Crow- Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon)

Folkocracy (BMG)

The Mamas & The Papas- Dancing Bear

The Mamas & The Papas (MCA)

Natalie Merchant & The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear

Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)

Dave Van Ronk- Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear

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

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Merle

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Tom Russell- Tulare Dust/They’re Tearing the Labor Camps Down

Tulare Dust: a songwriters’ tribute to Merle Haggard (RockBeat)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Merle Haggard- Basin Street Blues

Preservation (Preservation Hall)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Good Friends

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Bruce Cockburn- King of the Bolero

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Here Comes the Night

Home (Realiza)

William Prince- Tanqueray

Stand in the Joy (Six Shooter)

Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mary Chapin Carpenter- Sparrow

Home (Realiza)

Chris Vallillo- Ma Belle

Forgottonia (Go Ridge Music)

Tim O'Brien- Cup of Sugar

Cup of Sugar (Howdy Skies)

Queen Esther- All That We Are

Rona (EL)

Tim Grimm- Stirrin’ Up Trouble

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Jaspar Lepak- Ever Gonna Fly

Desert Ghosts (Jaspar Lepak)

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

Michael Jerome Browne with J.J. Milteau & Eric Bibb- Shake ‘Em on Down

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Eric Bibb with Taj Mahal & Jontavious Willis- Blues Funky Like Dat

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Taj Mahal- Summertime

Savoy (Stony Plain)

Aaron Smith & The Coal Biters- The Way to Sam’s Throne

The Legend of Sam Davis and Other Stories of Newton County, Arkansas (Aaron Smith)

The Sherpas- A Ways to Go

Promise to Harry (Trifecta)

John & Sheila Ludgate- The Gift of an Ordinary Day

The Kitchen Sessions (John & Sheila Ludgate)

Matthew Alexander- My Children’s Children

Midnight Dream Station (Caravan)

The Bombadils- Bicycle

Dear Friend (The Bombadils)

Jay Linden- I Wish

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Lea Michele- Don’t Rain On My Parade

Funny Girl – New Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Lea Michele & Ramin Karimloo- Sadie, Sadie

Funny Girl – New Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Tovah Feldshuh & Jared Grimes- Who Taught Her Everything She Knows

Funny Girl – New Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Meredith Moon- Needlecase Medley

Constellations (True North)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 15. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--Mike Regenstreif