Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 9, 2025: Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Riding in My Car

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/595/71924.html

Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt

The next three songs punctuated my conversation with David Eisenstadt, author of Jazz Musicians Under the Radar: 18 Notable Canadian Jewish Performers. Visit https://undertheradarbook.com/ for more information on David’s four Under the Radar books.

The Moe Koffman Quartette- The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues

The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues/Hambourg Bound (Quality)

Sophie Milman- No More Blues (Chega de Saudade)

In the Moonlight (Eone)

Nikki Yanofsky- West Coast Blues

Nikki By Starlight (MNRK Music Group)

Part 2 – Riding in My Car – featuring songs that have something or other to do with cars.

Woody Guthrie- Riding in My Car

Woody’s 20 Grow Big Songs (Rising Son)

Connie Kaldor- This Car

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

David Mallett- Daddy’s Oldsmobile

Parallel Lives (Flying Fish)

Judy Mayhan- Morning and an Oldsmobile

Judy Mayhan (Decca)

Bruce Springsteen- Used Cars

Nebraska (Columbia)

Vance Gilbert- Cousin Shelly’s Station Wagon

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Joni Mitchell- Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac

Night Drive Home (Geffen)

Rosanne Cash- Black Cadillac

Black Cadillac (Capitol)

Eric Bibb- Pink Dream Cadillac

Blues People (Stony Plain)

The Blasters- Long White Cadillac

Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall)

Dropkick Murphys- Cadillac, Cadillac

This Machine Still Kills Fascists: Lyrics of Woody Guthrie (Dummy Luck Music)

The Beach Boys- Little Deuce Coupe

Fifty Big Ones: Greatest Hits (Capitol)

Asleep at the Wheel- Hot Rod Lincoln

Western Standard Time (Epic)

Chuck Berry- Jaguar and Thunderbird

Best of the Chess Years (Not Now Music)

Ray Harris- Big Old American Cars

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Sass Jordan- Chevrolet

Bitches Blues (Stony Plain)

Victor Mecyssne- Ragtop Automobile

Personal Mercury (Villa Vee Music)

Hans Theessink- Mercury Blues

Songs from the Southland (Blue Groove)

Rod Abernathy- Just Get in the Car

Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore (Songs from Downstairs)

Next week: Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday October 8, 2022

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 Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

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 on October 3 and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/57847.html

Tom Rush, Jamie Hartford, Odetta, Emmylou Harris, Carolyn Hester, Nanci Griffith, Frank Christian- Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm

Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)

The Once- Sail Away to the Sea

The Once (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Old Man Luedecke (2015)

Old Man Luedecke- The Mermaid

Easy Money (True North)

Mountain City Four- Reuben Ranzo

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Tom Russell- Isaac Lewis

The Tom Russell Anthology: Veteran’s Day (Shout! Factory)

Shelley Posen- I’ll See You Rosh Hashana

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- A Mazeldikek Yor

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg- A Sukkah of Branches

Tsuker-zis (Tzadik)

Claudia Schmidt- Hard Love

Reimagining (Claudia Schmidt)

Bob Franke- Thanksgiving Eve

The Other Evening in Chicago (Waterbug)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- When My Ship Comes In

Road (Lynn Miles)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- I Love the Life

Live at the Bayou (Ball & Chain)

Missy Burgess- Blue Sweater

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Happy Traum- Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies

There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Sarah Cade- Dear Pasha

Dear Pasha – single (Sarah Cade)

Brendan Nolan- Bowl of Soup

Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song (AlmondSeed Media)

Dropkick Murphys with Woody Guthrie- Dig a Hole

This Machine Still Kills Fascists: Lyrics of Woody Guthrie (Dummy Luck Music)

Artists for Action- Which Side Are You On? *

Which Side Are You On? – single (Figs D Music)

*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.

Lynne Hanson- Orion’s Belt

Ice Cream in November (Panda Cave)

Paul Weber- Ode to Gerry Barber

Ode to Gerry Barber (Paul Weber)

Julian Taylor- Ballad of a Young Troubadour

The Ridge (Howling Turtle)

Ry Cooder & Lalo Guerreo- Barrio Viejo

Feels Like Home: Songs from the Sonoran Borderlands – Linda Ronstadt’s Musical Odyssey (Putomayo)

Linda Ronstadt- El Sueño

Feels Like Home: Songs from the Sonoran Borderlands – Linda Ronstadt’s Musical Odyssey (Putomayo)

Los Cenzontles- Palomas Que Andan Volando

Feels Like Home: Songs from the Sonoran Borderlands – Linda Ronstadt’s Musical Odyssey (Putomayo)

Anne Hills- Witness

Witness – single (Hand & Heart Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- I Keep You in My Heart

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

John McCutcheon- Every Day

Leap! (Appalsongs)

Suzie Vinnick- The Pie That My Baby Makes

Fall Back Home (Suzie Vinnick)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Brick and Mortar

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Windborne- The Terror Time

Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- Daft Annie

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

James Keelaghan- Gathering Storm

Second-Hand (Borealis)

Loudon Wainwright III- Back in Your Town

Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)

Chaim Tannenbaum- London, Longing for Home

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Peter Mulvey & SistaStrings- Shenendoah

Love is the Only Thing (Righteous Babe)

Last Forever- Wild Goose

No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Cheryl Wheeler- Mrs. Pinocci’s Guitar

Mrs. Pinocci’s Guitar (Philo)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Old Dan

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Geoff Bartley- Talkin’ on Top of His Game

Keep Your Eyes on the Road (Magic Crow)

Rory Block- Lovin’ Whiskey

Ain’t Nobody Worried (Stony Plain)

Steve Lundquist- Simple and Silly

My Life in Song (Steve Lundquist)

Paul Mills- The Ukulele March

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on November 5. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday October 22 from 10 am-noon.  

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--Mike Regenstreif