Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 11, 2026

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/128/76211.html

Doug McArthur- Smoke & Whiskey

Smoke & Whiskey (Doug McArthur)

Grouyan Gombo- Beaubassin

Beaubassin (Grouyan Gombo)

The Vanier Playboys- Gator Gumbo

Deux (Moo Music)

Clifton Chenier- Grand Mamou

King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco (Arhoolie)

Sneezy Waters & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Sneezy Waters- Zydeco Began

A Letter Home (Sneezy Waters)

Jory Nash & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Jory Nash- Oh, Little One

The Light Still Shines on the Main (Thin Man)

Cowboy Junkies- Clothes Line Saga

Garth Hudson Presents A Canadian Celebration of The Band (Curve Music)

Suzie Vinnick- Big Train (from Memphis)

Fall Back Home (Suzie Vinnick)

Amanda Rheaume- Better Part of Town

The Truth We Hold (Ishkõdé)

Don Ross- Water

Water (Goby Fish Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Ron Sexsmith (2025)

Ron Sexsmith- Rose Town

Hangover Terrace (Cooking Vinyl)

Mike Regenstreif & James Keelaghan (2017)

James Keelaghan- La Cattiva Strada

Second-Hand (Borealis)

Valdy- A Good Song

Classic Collection (A&M)

Hannah & Nathan- Blood is Thicker Than Water

Love and Labour (Just Right Music)

Arnie Naiman- My Lucky Stars

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

The Greenbriar Boys- Ragged But Right

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

Kitka- Ligo

Kolo (Diaphonoca)

Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck featuring Dolly Parton- In the Pines

The Fiddle and the Drum (Thirty Tigers)

The McDades- The Lily of the West

Thread the Light (Free Radio)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- The Mermaid

Marblehead Morning – Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl: 50 Years in Harmony (Daring)

Saul Broudy & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Saul Broudy- Cool Colorado

Ten Great Years at Kerrville, Volume One (Silverwolf)

Amy Melissen & Lee Stivers- Blues Stay Away from Me

Something Tells Me Everything Will Be Alright (AMCTR)

Lance Cowan- Where’d They Go

The Air That You Breathe (Lantzapalooza Müzik/Patio) 

Diana Jones & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2021)

Diana Jones, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger & Zahara Phillips- We Believe You

Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Mike Regenstreif & Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics (2025)

The Klezmatics featuring Joshua Nelson & Lavendar Light Gospel Choir- I Am Willing

We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)

Esther Kaiser- We Shall Overcome

Songs of Courage (GLM Music)

Tim Kliphuis Trio- Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue (Lowlands)

Satellite Birdhouse- So Long

Satellite Birdhouse (Satellite Birdhouse)

Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni- Birds

Birds (Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni)

NEeMA- Bone to Pick with Time

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Bone on Bone

Bone on Bone (True North)

Lynne Hanson & Mike Regenstreif (2011)

Lynne Hanson- River of Sand

River of Sand (Lynne Hanson)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt featuring Tish Hinojosa- La Madrugada Tusconense

Esperanza (Crooked Cyclone)

Mike Regenstreif & Mitch Greenhill (2025)

Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith- Tuscon, One More Time

Storm Coming (Folklore Productions)

Chuck Pyle, Gina Forsyth & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Chuck Pyle- Other Side of the Hill

Step By Step (Bee ‘n’ Flower)

Gina Forsyth- Down Yonder

Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales (Waterbug)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Holden’s Blues

Come Running (Turn and Spin Media)

John Ferullo- Handsome Molly

Red-Tailed Hawk (John Ferullo)

Vanessa Lively- Ready to Find You

Mirroring in the Wilderness (Animada)

Annie Gallup- Paper

Nightclothes (Galway Bay Music)

Allison Russell featuring Joy Oladokun & Julie Williams- No Springtime

In the Hour of Chaos (Fantasy)

Paul Simon & The Jessy Dixon Singers- The Sound of Silence

Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin’ (Columbia/Legacy)

The Brothers & Sisters- Chimes of Freedom

Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)

Ian Tamblyn- Irene’s Goodnight

The Fragile Tangent (North Track)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 8. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 12, 2021: Drinking Songs

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/595/53775.html

Theme: Drinking Songs

Annie Lou- Grandma’s Rules for Drinking
Grandma’s Rules for Drinking (Annie Lou)

Finest Kind- Sussex Drinking Song
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)
David Parry- In Praise of Alcohol
The Man from Eldorado: Songs and Stories of Robert W. Service (Borealis)
Joni Mitchell- Nancy Whiskey
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Sandy & Caroline Paton- I’m a Rover and Seldom Sober
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes – Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Stick McGhee- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
New York Blues and R&B (JSP)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Backwater Blues (Fantasy)

Gina Forsyth- Whiskey Before Breakfast
Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales (Waterbug)

Rosalie Sorrels- Red Wine at Noon
Always a Lady (Green Linnet)
Kathy Mattea- Little Glass of Wine
Pretty Bird (Captain Potato)
Tom Paxton & The DonJuans- Bottle of Wine
Live (Pax)
Buster Poindexter- Who Drank My Beer (While I was in the Rear)?
Buster’s Happy Hour (Rhino)

Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- Whiskey Evening
For a Song (Distant Whisper Music)
Russ Kelley- Whiskey Stone Blues
In Plain Sight (Ark Road Music Productions)
Lynn Miles- She Drinks
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)
Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane
The Old Songs’ Home (Well Done Music)

Penny Lang- Barrelhouse Blues
Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)
John McCutcheon- Moonshiner
Bucket List (Appalseed)
Laura Nyro- Sweet Blindness
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Eastern Beer
1976 live recording – used with permission
Dave Van Ronk- Alabama Song
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)
David Massengill- Last Call
Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk (Gadfly)
Miranda Mulholland- The Parting Glass
By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)

Mary Gauthier- I Drink
Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)

Next week: Eating Songs

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--Mike Regenstreif

Reggie Harris – Ready to Go

REGGIE HARRIS

Ready to Go

Reggie Harris Music

reggieharrismusic.com

As I mentioned in a 2012 review of Kim and Reggie Harris' Resurrection Day, I wrote a feature story for Sing Out! magazine (“Kim and Reggie Harris: Building Bridges,” Summer 2007), and said I’ve long been inspired by Kim and Reggie – by their moving work as recording and performing artists, and by the deep commitment they have as activists who use their art to help make ours a better society.

For the past several years, with Kim Harris following an academic career, Reggie Harris has worked as a solo artist and in collaborations with other like-minded artists. Now, Reggie has released Ready to Go, his first and much-anticipated solo album.

Like virtually all of Reggie’s albums with Kim, Ready to Go is an inspired and inspiring set filled with much joy, some sorrow and a whole lot of hope.

The album kicks off with “Ready to Go,” the title track. Fueled by Gina Forsyth’s Cajun fiddling, the song is a call to action to stand one’s ground in the face of the Trumpian challenges now gripping the U.S. (and, by extension, the rest of the world).

One of the most poignant songs is “Love Guides the Wounded Heart,” a sad lament for the lack of meaningful change to American gun culture five years after the mass murder of 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The song was written a few months before the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida but could well serve on the soundtrack to the campaign launched by the brave young activists who survived that horror.

Another poignant song is “Hickory Hill,” a song that explores an aspect of Reggie’s shared family history with a distant white cousin that originated when the Hickory Hill plantation slave master fathered five children with one of the slaves.

Other favorites on Ready to Go include “Harlem Renaissance,” a snappy jazz tune that salutes and namechecks many of the literary and musical giants who rose to prominence in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century; and “Hunt the Whale,” Reggie’s sea chantey inspired by the story of seven African American sailors who served on the 1821 voyage of the Essex. That tragic voyage inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby Dick.”

The album ends with stirring versions of two songs from the 1960s, each featuring an added verse written by Reggie. Both Bob Zellner’s civil rights anthem “Been Down into the South,” adapted from an African American spiritual, and Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” remind us how far we’ve come over the past-half century – and how far we still have to go.

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--Mike Regenstreif