Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 10, 2025: Dreams

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/595/70583.html

Theme: Dreams.

All the songs have something or other to do with dreams: dreams we dream at night, or daydreams, or, in many cases, aspirational dreams, broken dreams and dreams fulfilled.

Missy Burgess- Sweet Dreams

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Ken Tizzard- Sonny’s Dream

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Booth Street)

Ian & Sylvia- So Much for Dreaming

So Much for Dreaming (Vanguard)

Kim Beggs- Alive and Well in My Dreams

Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

Tom Russell- Blue Wing

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Swing & Tears- The Dreamin’

Swing & Tears (Swing & Tears)

Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan’s Dream

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- I’ll See You in My Dreams

North By Southwest (Arabica)

Doug McArthur- Dreams and Visions

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Rob Siegel- I Dreamed I Said to Sisyphus

I’m from Here (Rob Siegel)

The Puppini Sisters- Mr, Sandman

Betcha Bottom Dollar (Verve)

Garnet Rogers- John O’Dreams

The Outside Track (Snow Goose Songs)

Eliza Gilkyson- Impossible Dreams

Dark Ages (Realiza)

Kat Goldman- The One to Dream

The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Jamie Anderson- The Dream

Dare (Tsunami)

Jimmy LaFave- Land of Hope and Dreams

Depending on the Distance (Music Road)

Bette Midler- A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Broken Blossom (Atlantic)

Shelley Posen- I Missed You in My Dreams Last Night

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Moore & McGregor- Dream With Me

Dream With Me (Ivernia)

David Myles- Dreaming

Real Love (Little Tiny)

The Lovin’ Spoonful- Daydream

Daydream (Sony/Legacy)

John Stewart- Daydream Believer

The Lonesome Picker Rides Again (Collectors’ Choice Music)

Anne Hills- Dreamcatcher

Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)

Eric Bogle- Don’t Throw Away Your Dreams

A Toss of the Coin (Greentrax)

Priscilla Herdman- Dreams

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Next week: Music for 88 Keys.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 17, 2023: Remembering Kate Wolf

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/595/62361.html

Theme: Remembering Kate Wolf (1942-1986).

Kate Wolf was a very fine singer and songwriter, and folk music activist, who died of leukemia on December 10, 1986, about six weeks before she would have turned 45. Although her career as a touring and recording artist was relatively brief, Kate was, in her time, and to this day, a highly influential artist.

Kate Wolf- The Minstrel

Weaver of Visions: The Kate Wolf Anthology (Rhino)

Kate Wolf- Emma Rose

Back Roads (Rhino)

Dave Alvin- These Times We’re Living In

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Nanci Griffith- Friend of Mine

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

John Gorka- Sweet Love

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Give Yourself to Love

Discovered: Live in Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Kate Wolf- Safe at Anchor

Safe at Anchor (Rhino)

Eric Bogle- Katie and the Dreamtime Land

Something of Value (Philo)

Eric Bogle- Cornflower Blue

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Kate Wolf- Poet’s Heart

Poet’s Heart (Rhino)

Utah Phillips- See Here, She Said

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Across the Great Divide

Forty (Daring)

Lucinda Williams- Here in California

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf (Red House)

Greg Brown- Kate’s Guitar

In the Hills of California (Red House)

Kate Wolf- Old Jerome

The Wind Blows Wild (Rhino)

Kate Wolf- All He Ever Saw was You

Poet’s Heart (Rhino)

Steve Fisher- Streets of Calgary

River (SNR Music)

Eve Goldberg- Traveling Day

Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie)

Rosalie Sorrels- In China, or a Woman’s Heart

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Steven Gellman- California (For Kate)

All You Need (Hidden Poet Music)

Kate Wolf- Bird on a Wire

Looking Back at You (Rhino)

Next week: A conversation with Terri Thal, author of My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 6, 2021

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 prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/54085.html

Mitch Greenhill- The Boy By the Chocolate Mill
Mitchology (Mitch Greenhill)

Peter Keane- Weary Blues
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Doc Watson- The Clouds Gwine Roll Away
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes – Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bett Padgett- 500 Miles
Turning Over Stones (Ceilidhe’s Music)
Bob Jensen with James Keelaghan- My Skies
For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

James Gordon- When I Stayed Home
When I Stayed Home (James Gordon)
Dean Friedman- Halfway Normal World
American Lullaby (Real Life)
Carole Wise- New Frontier
The Long Way Home (Soulful Cricket)

Ian & Sylvia- You Were On My Mind
Northern Journey (Vanguard)
Sylvia Tyson- River Road
River Road & Other Stories (Outside Music)
Quartette- Arkansas Travelogue
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Deborah Robins- The Three Ravens
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)
Roy Forbes- If I Were a Raven
Strikin’ Matches Live! (AKA)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- I Go Like the Raven
Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Q&A- You Never Let Me Down
Demo Listen Derby (Sonic Peach)
T. Buckley- Father’s Child
Frame By Frame (Fallen Tree)

Orrin Star- Waltzing Matilda/By the Rivers of Babylon
No Frets Barred (Flying Fish)

Brooksie Wells- Sweet Remembrance
Stops Time (Down Home Dive)
Ina May Wool- Rewrite the Ending
Rewrite the Ending (Voice of Binky Music)
Peter Keane- Almost Gone
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Mala Oreen- Ragged Queen
Awake (Tourbo)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Kaia Kater- The Right One
Grenades (Smithsonian Folkways)
Connie Kaldor- Whistle Gone
Love is a Truck (Coyote)
Garnet Rogers- Old Campfires
Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Yiddish Meydl
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)
Martha Wainwright- Getting Older
Love Will Be Reborn (Peremone)

Ian Tamblyn- St. Kilda
Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)
Kate Weekes- A Day Called Summer
Taken By Surprise (Artiste Extrordinaire Originals)

Priscilla Herdman- No Man’s Land
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)
Eric Bogle with John Munro- In Flanders Fields
A Toss of the Coin (Greentrax)
Garnet Rogers- 11:11
Sparrow’s Wing (Snow Goose Songs)

Dave Clarke- Remember When
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

Corey Harris- Boats Up River
The Insurrection Blues (M.C.)
Peter Keane- Special Rider Blues
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Judy Henske- I Know You Rider
The Elektra Albums (Ace)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Key to the Highway
Working Man Blues (Sunset Blvd.)

Over the Moon- Lonesome Bluebird
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Missy Burgess- Time
Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

Lynne Hanson- Shadowland
Shadowland – single (Lynne Hanson)
Colin James- Raging River
Open Road (Stony Plain)
Maria Muldaur- I’m Vaccinated and Ready for Love
I’m Vaccinated and Ready for Love – single (Stony Plain)

Laura Love- Heart of Nat Turner
Uppity (Octoroon Biography)
Reggie Harris- Tree of Life
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom, Come & Go with Me, I’m On My Way
Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Leonard Cohen- Listen to the Hummingbird
Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)
Anne Hills- Alexandra Leaving
Points of View (Appleseed)

Canadian Brass- Hallelujah
Canadiana (Linus/Canadian Brass)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on December 4. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 13, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52675.html

Theme: Songs About Refugees

Guest: Diana Jones

Moira Smiley SMILEY- Refugee
Unzip the Horizon (Moira Smiley Music)

Murray McLauchlan- Lying By the Sea (For Alan Kurdi)
Hourglass (True North)
Eric Bibb- Refugee Moan
Migration Blues (Stony Plain)
Kim Wallach- Refugee’s Lullaby
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Guy Davis- I’ve Looked Around
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Jabbour- Je tournais la clé
Carling Lake (Jabbour)
Eric Bogle- Refugee
At This Stage (Greentrax)

 

The next five songs punctuated my conversation with Diana Jones. The conversation was recorded on June 17 via Zoom.

Diana Jones- Song to a Refugee
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones- El Chaparral
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger & Zahara Phillips- We Believe You
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones- The Life I Left Behind
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones- The Sea is My Mother
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Tom Russell- Across the Border
Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches (Appleseed)
Guy Clark- El Coyote
The Best of the Dualtone Years (Dualtone)
Los Texmaniacs with Rick Treviño- I am a Mexican
Cruzando Borders (Smithsonian Folkways)

Eric Andersen- Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam
Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)
Sultans of String featuring Ifrah Mansour- I Am a Refugee
Refuge (Sultans of String)

Sultans of String featuring Edmar Castaneda- Refuge
Refuge (Sultans of String)

Next week – Remembering Mimi Fariña

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday June 24, 2017

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 http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/32935.html.

Extended theme – A tribute to Rosalie Sorrels.

This program was dedicated to the memory of the late Rosalie Sorrels (1933-2017). Rosalie died on June 11 and today would have been her 84th birthday. I wrote about Rosalie on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog.

Katy Moffatt- Seabiscuit

Where the Heart Is (Centerfire Music)

David Wiffen- Times are Getting Hard

At the Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC (Universal International)

Deborah Robins- Shake Sugaree

Home Fires (Zippety Whippet Music)

Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches- Freight Train

Very Next Thing (On the Bol)

Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur- The Cuckoo

Penny’s Farm (Kingswood)

Jayme Stone, Moira Smiley, Sumaia Jackson, Joe Phillips & Nick Fraser- Hey, Lally Lally Lo

Jayme Stone’s Folklife (Borealis)

Bob Dylan- Who Killed Davey Moore?

The Bootleg Series, Volume 1 (Columbia)

The Brothers & Sisters- All Along the Watchtower

Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)

Sneezy Waters- When the Ship Comes In

Sneezy Waters Live (Sneezy Waters)

Bill Camplin- Desolation Row

Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Eric Bogle- Roll Call

A Toss of the Coin (Greentrax)

Lisa Gutkin- Gonna Get Through This World

From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)

NEeMA w/Emmylou Harris- For You

Painting My Wall Gold (Neemaste Productions)

Catherine MacLellan & John Connolly- The Call

If It’s Alright With You: The Songs of Gene MacLellan (True North)

Katie Moore & Andrew Horton- You Can Go on Your Way Now

Six More Miles (Katie Moore)

Durham County Poets & Michael Jerome Browne- Diamonds on the Water

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

Orit Shimoni- Time’s Up

Soft Like Snow (MW Music)

Tom Russell- Thrown to the Wolves

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Rosalie Sorrels- Travelin’ Lady

Travelin’ Lady (Sire)

Nanci Griffith- Ford Econoline

Lone Star State of Mind (MCA)

Rosalie Sorrels- Apple of My Eye

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Bonnie Koloc- Up is a Nice Place to Be

Timeless (Mr. Biscuit)

Rosalie Sorrels- Hitchhiker in the Rain

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Grateful Dead- Ripple

American Beauty (Warner Bros.)

Rosalie Sorrels- Song for Daughters/Mama

Then Came the Children – Live (Green Linnet)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Postcard from India (Keep On Rockin’)

Sparkle and Shine (Front Hall)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Apples and Pears

What Does It Mean to Love? (Green Linnet)

Penny Lang- My Last Go Round

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Rosalie Sorrels- One More Next Time

If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)

Tom Russell w/Bill Hearne- Pork Roast and Poetry

Unreleased – used by permission

Rosalie Sorrels- Rosalie, You Can’t Go Home Again

Travelin’ Lady (Sire)

Sam Baker- Margaret

Land of Doubt (Sam Baker)

Annie Guthrie- Laid in Bed

Dragonfly (Rising Son)

Garnet Rogers w/Doug Long- This Shirt

Summer Lightning: Live (Snow Goose)

Jory Nash- King in Denial

The Many Hats of Jory Nash (Thin Man)

Alex Cuba- En Mi Guitarra

Lo Ūnico Constante (Caracol)

Rory Block- Panama Limited

Keepin’ Outta Trouble: a tribute to Bukka White (Stony Plain)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Spread the News Around

Mr. Brownie & Mr. Sonny: The Bluesville Years Volume Five (Prestige)

Michael Earnie Taylor Orchestra- Tourist Town

$3 Pants (Laughing Cactus Music)

Joe Newberry & April Verch- Waiting for Joe

Going Home (Slab Town)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 22.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif