Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 25, 2023: Willie Nelson at 90

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/595/60138.html

Theme: Willie Nelson at 90.

Willie Nelson will turn 90 on April 29th and as Bob Dylan wrote in his book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, “Willie Nelson could, as they say, sing the phone book and make you weep – he could also write the phonebook.”

Willie Nelson- My Own Peculiar Way

My Own Peculiar Way (RCA)

Patsy Cline- Crazy

The Unforgettable Patsy Cline (PolyTel)

Lucinda Williams- Funny How Time Slips Away

Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of ‘60s Country Classics (Highway 20)

The Little Willies- Night Life

The Little Willies (Milking Bull)

Willie Nelson- Mr. Record Man

Absolutely the Best, Volume 1 (Fuel 2000)

Bobby Bare- One Day at a Time

Constant Sorrow (RCA)

k.d. lang & the reclines- Three Days

Absolute Torch and Twang (Sire)

Colleen Peterson- Sad Songs and Waltzes

Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)

Willie Nelson- Hello Walls

Absolutely the Best, Volume 1 (Fuel 2000)

Willie Nelson- Time of the Preacher

Red Headed Stranger (Columbia/Legacy)

Doc & Merle Watson- I Couldn’t Believe it was True

Elementary Doctor Watson (Tomato)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

Kerouac’s Last Dream (Appleseed)

Willie Nelson- Red Headed Stranger

Red Headed Stranger (Columbia/Legacy)

Willie Nelson- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

Stardust (Columbia)

Kerri Powers- Always On My Mind

Words on the Wind (Must Have Music)

Emmylou Harris- Sister’s Coming Home

Blue Kentucky Girl (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Willie Nelson- Me and Paul

Wanted! The Outlaws (RCA)

Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel- Hesitation Blues

Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux)

Willie Nelson & Kimmie Rhodes- I Just Drove By

Just One Love (Justice)

Kinky Friedman & Willie Nelson- Bloody Mary Morning

The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (Avenue A)

Judy Collins & Willie Nelson- When I Go

Strangers Again (Wildflower/Cleopatra)

Wynton Marsalis Septet featuring Willie Nelson- Milk Cow Blues

United We Swing: Best of the Lincoln Centre Galas (Blue Engine)

Willie Nelson & Bonnie Raitt- Getting Over You

Across the Borderline (Columbia)

Townes Van Zandt & Willie Nelson- Marie

Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (Tomato)

Mary Kay Place & Willie Nelson- Something to Brag About

The Ahern Sessions 1976-1977 (Raven)

Next week: Stompin’ at the Savoy.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday July 11, 2015

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: John Carroll; Arthur McGregor; Leonard Youngfoot; Joel LeBlanc

Orit Shimoni- Yonathan

If Love is a Religion (Orit Shimoni)

Eli West, Margaret Glaspy, Brittany Haas, Greg Garrison, Jayme Stone- Susan Anna Gal

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Bill Garrett- Stubbs Stomp

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

The Slocan Ramblers- Streamline Cannonball

Coffee Creek (The Slocan Ramblers)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright- Green Green Rocky Road

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Fraser & Girard- Dance Hall Girls

Fraser & Girard (Allan Fraser & Marianne Girard)

Tom Russell- The Rose of Roscrae

The Rose of Roscrae: A Ballad of the West (Frontera)

Ian Tyson- Wolves No Longer Sing

Carnero Vaquero (Stony Plain)

Colleen Peterson- The Circle

Postcards from California (Souvenir)

Murray McLauchlan- Out Past the Timberline

Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Pete Seeger- Both Sides Now

Young vs. Old (Columbia)

John Carroll- Everybody Smokes in Hell

Live in the studio

Arthur McGregor- True Folk News

Live in the studio

Leonard Youngfoot- Which Side Are You On?

Live in the studio

Leonard Youngfoot- Heartache

Live in the studio

Catherine MacLellan- The Raven’s Sun

The Raven’s Sun (Catherine MacLellan)

Dave Gunning- These Hands

No More Pennies (Wee House of Music)

The show is now available for online listening. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/22902.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on August 29.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (October 13-19)

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif was a Thursday tradition on CKUT in Montreal for nearly 14 years from February 3, 1994 until August 30, 2007. Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued as occasional features on CKUT and is now also a blog. Here’s the seventh instalment of “This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches,” a weekly look back continuing through next August at some of the most notable guests, features and moments in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history.

October 13, 1994: Extended feature- Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
October 19, 1995: Guest- Kirk MacGeachy of Orealis.
October 17, 1996: A tribute to the late Colleen Peterson.
October 15, 1998: Guest- Roy Forbes.
October 14, 1999: Guest- Rick Fielding.
October 16, 2003: Guest- Erin McKeown.
October 14, 2004: Guest- Jackie Washington.
October 19. 2006: Guest- Michael Jerome Browne.
October 18, 2007 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): Songs about bus stations and bus rides.
October 16, 2008 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): Three Women Sing, Part 1.

Pictured: The late Jackie Washington and me at Library & Archives Canada in Ottawa on May 8, 2008.

--Mike Regenstreif