Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – October 3, 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/128/77380.html

Martin Simpson- October Song

Home Recordings (Topic)

Vikki Clayton- Who Knows Where the Time Goes

It Suits Me Well: The Songs of Sandy Denny (Castle)

Linda Ronstadt & The Stone Poneys- Driftin’

Evergreen, Vol. 2 (Capitol)

Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- White Swans and Black/Grey October Clouds

Two for the Early Dew (Shanachie)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- My Bonny

As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Still As You’re Sleeping (Hudson)

Dave Clarke, Lucinda Chodan & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Dave Clarke- October 

GuitarSongs (Crossties)

Satellite Birdhouse- October

Satellite Birdhouse (Satellite Birdhouse)

Buddy Miller featuring The War & Treaty- Lay Down the Burden of Your Heart

Buddy Miller (New West)

The Kennedys- Smoketree

Smoketree (The Kennedys)

Dida Pelled- Hesitation Blues

I Wish You Would (La Reserve)

Donna Herula- Wish I Could See You Again

Cold Feet (Donna Herula)

Mary Gauthier- Black Ice

Reckoning (Soundly Music/Thirty Tigers)

Doug McArthur- Lean into the Wind

Smoke & Whiskey (Doug McArthur)

AJ Lee & Blue Summit- Glendale Train

Cover to Cover (Signature Sounds)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Goin’ Down the Road

Rarities (True North)

Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 (Smithsonian Folkways) 

Mike Regenstreif & Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics (2025)

The Klezmatics- I Wanna Ride

Wonder Wheel – Lyrics by Woody Guthrie: 20th Anniversary Edition (Shamus)

Carla Sciaky- Dear Mr. Bowers 

Heart of the Swan (Propinquity)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Packed 

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Shari Ulrich- The Sweater

Back to Shore (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- My Blue Sweater

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Kate Greenland- Bittersweetheart

Longing and Dreaming (Kate Greenland)

Margo Price- Rita Ballou

Old No. 1 Revisited (Truly Handmade)

Jade Bird- L.A. Freeway

Old No. 1 Revisited (Truly Handmade)

Guy Clark- Dublin Blues 

Dublin Blues: 30th Anniversary Edition (Compass)

Doc Watson- Columbus Stockade Blues

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Carla Gover & Friends featuring Jeri Katherine Howell- Plant a Seed, Write a Song

William Branch is Hard to Find (Joe Hill Music)

Allison Russell featuring Ruby Amanfu- Just Like Saturday

In the Hour of Chaos (Fantasy)

Mama's Broke- Failing

Reunion (Free Dirt)

Rising Appalachia- Sugar Blue

Trade My Troubles (Rising Appalachia)

Frank London & The Loisaida Fife and Drum Corps- My Babe

Touzle Your Kurchy (Adhyâropa)

Harrison Kennedy- Mountain Stomp

Old Fashion Plain (Electro-Fi)

Rhiannon Giddens- High on a Mountain

Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Nonesuch)

Jake Blount- Shady Grove

Single-Footed Horse (Jake Blount)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- The Benevolence of Trees

The Benevolence of Trees (Hand & Heart Music)

Deborah Holland- Your Safe Haven

Unadorned (Deborah Holland)

Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni- Pain

Birds (Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni)

Ian Tamblyn- The Road to Ramona

The Fragile Tangent (North Track)

NEeMA- Jealousy

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose- Heavy Hitter

Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose (Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Russell (2012)

Tom Russell- October in the Railroad Earth

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 31. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 2, 2026: Songs for International Sex Workers Day

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/595/75625.html

Theme: Songs for International Sex Workers Day.

International Sex Workers Day is marked annually on June 2 to honour sex workers and call attention to the often inhumane conditions of their work. While some choose sex work voluntarily, too many – too often underaged – are forced into it, by their dire circumstances, because they are being exploited, or because they are victims of human trafficking.

Some of these songs are explicitly about sex workers or are sung from their perspectives, some of them mention sex workers as part of the stories they’re telling, and some of them are implicitly about sex workers.

Nanci Griffith- Lookin’ for the Time (Working Girl)

The Last of the True Believers (Philo)

Lucinda Williams- House of Earth

Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)

Lynn Miles- High Heels in the Snow

Winter (Lynn Miles)

Odetta- New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)

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

Hal Cannon- Hurdy Gurdy Girl

Cowboy Sutra (Okehdokee)

Hedy West- Whore’s Lament

Love, Hell and Biscuits (Bear Family)

Si Kahn- Backroom Lady

New Wood (Philo)

Townes Van Zandt- Tecumseh Valley

Live at Union Chapel, London, England (Tomato)

Suzy Thompson- Louise

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

David Bromberg- Sammy’s Song

David Bromberg (Columbia)

Tim Grimm- San Francisco Mabel Joy

Names (Wind River)

Tina Turner- Private Dancer

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Rhino)

Dana Gillespie- Brewer Street Blues

First Love (Fretsore)

Tom Paxton- Cindy’s Cryin’/The Hooker

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dream Lover

Beautiful World (Red House)

Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris with Kate & Anna McGarrigle- 1917

Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum)

Heather Masse & Dick Hyman- Love for Sale

Lock My Heart (Red House)

Peter, Paul & Mary- No Other Name

Album 1700 (Warner Bros.)

John Stewart- Josie

Cannons in the Rain/Wingless Angels (One Way)

Guy Clark- Let Him Roll

Keepers: a live recording (Sugar Hill)

Marianne Faithfull- Boulevard of Broken Dreams

20th Century Blues (RCA)

Next week: Songs of Richard Fariña.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 9, 2025: The Dark

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/595/73159.html

Theme: The Dark.

This time of year – the weeks leading to the winter solstice – is the darkest time of the year. As well, with the erosion of democracy and human rights, the spread of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and homophobia, ongoing wars and the waning belief in proven science typified by climate change denial and vaccine conspiracy theories, we are living in dark times. So, these songs all relate in some way or another to the dark.

Guy Clark- The Dark

The Dark (Sugar Hill)

Steel Rail- Darkest Night

Coming Home (Crossties)

Kate Campbell- Dark Night of the Soul

For the Living of These Days (Large River Music)

Slaid Cleaves- Through the Dark

Together Through the Dark (Candy House Music)

Ana Egge- Ready for the Darkness

Sharing in the Spirit (StorySound)

Arlo Guthrie- Darkest Hour

Amigo (Rising Son)

Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris- In My Hour of Darkness

Grievous Angel (Reprise)

Tuba Sknny- Echo in the Dark

Some Kind-a-Shake (Tuba Sknny)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dark Ages

Dark Ages (Realiza)

Caroline Doctorow- Children of Darkness

Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña (Narrow Lane)

Eric Andersen- Darkness

Eric Andersen in (Spoken) Pieces (EARecords)

Leonard Cohen with Cantor Gideon Zelermyer & The Shaar Hashomayim Choir- You Want It Darker 

You Want It Darker (Columbia)

Chris Rusin & Katie Wise- The Dark

Songs from a Secret Room (Rushing River)

Michael Jerome Browne- The Road is Dark

The Road is Dark (Borealis)

Clela Errington- Full Moon Dark Time

Walkin’ Each Other Home (Clela Errington)

Tom Russell- Darkness Visible

Blood and Candle Smoke (Shout! Factory)

Jamie Anderson- Run to the Darkness

The Truth Appears (Tsunami)

Johnny Cash- I See a Darkness

American III: Solitary Man (American)

Rob Lutes- Walk in the Dark

Walk in the Dark (Lucky Bear)

Carrie Newcomer- Singing in the Dark

A Great Wild Mercy (Available Light)

Chris Rawlings- Lifting the Darkness 

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Dave Clarke- In the Falling Dark

The Healing Garden (Crossties)

Next week: A Hanukkah Concert with Nefesh Mountain and More Songs for the Holiday.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 16, 2025: Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt

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/595/71992.html

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

Townes Van Zandt – who was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944 and died in Smyrna, Tennessee on January 1, 1997 at age 52 – was one of the greatest Texas singer-songwriters. Many of his songs are enduring classics still sung by many artists. 

Townes Van Zandt, Freddy Fender, Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution, Doug Sahm & Augie Meyer- Pancho & Lefty

Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (Tomato)

Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie- Tecumseh Valley

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Bob Jensen- Colorado Girl 

For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

Matthew Barber & Jill Barber- If I Needed You

The Family Album (Outside Music)

Catherine MacLennan- When She Don’t Need Me

When the Wind Blows: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt (Appaloosa)

The Wainwright Sisters- Our Mother the Mountain

Songs in the Dark (MapleMusic)

Townes Van Zandt- Kathleen

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Tomato)

David Olney with Daniel Seymour- For the Sake of the Song

Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I (Strictly Country)

Kate & Edith- Rex’s Blues

Live at Kelso Hall (Kate & Edith)

Saul Broudy- No Lonesome Tune

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

The Be Good Tanyas- Waiting Around to Die

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Townes Van Zandt- Columbine

Townes Van Zandt (Tomato)

David Broza- Night Dawn (Silver Dollar)

Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt (S-Curve)

Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell- Snowin’ on Raton

One to the Heart, One to the Head (Frontera/Scarlet Letter)

John Gorka- Snow Don’t Fall

Writing in the Margins (Red House)

Townes Van Zandt- Sad Cinderella

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (Tomato)

Lucy Kaplansky- No Place to Fall 

The Lucy Story: unreleased and rare tracks, 1976-2023 (Lucyricky)

Steve Earle- (Quicksilver Dreams of) Maria

Townes: The Basics (New West)

Guy Clark- To Live is to Fly

Old Friends (Sugar Hill)

Townes Van Zandt & Kimmie Rhodes- Brother Flower

Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (Tomato)

Colleen Rennison- White Freightliner

See the Sky About to Rain (Black Hen Music)

Emmylou Harris- Pancho & Lefty

Luxury Liner (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Next week: Part 1 – If It Were Up to Me; Part 2 – Songs of Cole Porter.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 29, 2025: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark

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/595/69984.html

Theme: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark.

Guy Clark – who died in 2016 at age 74 – was a great Texas singer-songwriter who began releasing albums in 1974. In the liner notes to Old No. 1, Guy’s first album, Jerry Jeff Walker referred to Guy’s songs as “the natural music of the acoustic guitar.” These songs were all written or co-written by Guy.

Guy Clark- Dublin Blues

Dublin Blues: 30th Anniversary Edition (Compass)

Nanci Griffith- She Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Blue Roses from the Moons (Elektra)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Like a Coat from the Cold

Ridin’ High (MCA Nashville)

Rick Robbins & Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Desperados Waiting for a Train

Walkin’ Down the Line (Seeds of Man)

Guy Clark- That Old Time Feeling

Old No. 1 (Sugar Hill)

Johnny Cash- Let Him Roll

Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)

Asleep At the Wheel- Blowin’ Like a Bandit

10 (Epic)

Rosanne Cash- Better Days

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- The Guitar

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Guy Clark- Ramblin’ Jack & Mahan

Boats to Build (Asylum)

Bill Hearne- The Cape

Always Trust Your Cape (Howlin’ Dog) 

Willie Nelson- Stuff That Works

Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy)

Guy Clark- Cold Dog Soup

Cold Dog Soup (Sugar Hill)

Terri Hendrix- The Dark

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

John Prine & Emmylou Harris- Magnolia Wind

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Bill Staines- Lone Star Hotel Café

Old Dogs (Red House)

Emmylou Harris- New Cut Road

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Guy Clark- The South Coast of Texas

Craftsman (Philo)

Suzy Bogguss- Instant Coffee Blues

This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse Music)

Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie- Old Friends

Old Friends (Black Hen Music)

Steve Earle- The Randall Knife

Guy (New West)

Guy Clark- Once More With Caution

Dublin Blues: 30th Anniversary Edition (Compass)

Next week: The Banjo Special.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 26, 2024: Immigration, Part 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/595/67838.html

Theme: Immigration, Part 2.

Maria Dunn- Immigrant Dreams

Piece By Piece (Distant Whisper)

Joe Jencks- I’m a Stranger in This Land

The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn (Turtle Bear Music)

Rude Girls- Crossing the Border

Mixed Messages (Flying Fish)

Si Kahn- Lady of the Harbor

Best of the Rest (Strictly Country)

John McCutcheon- Third Way

Leap! (Appalsongs)

David Massengill- My Name Joe

Coming Up for Air (Flying Fish)

Grit Laskin- Sewing Machines

Unabashedly Folk (Borealis)

Mara Levine- Immigrant Dream

Jewels and Harmony (Mara’s Creations)

Brendan Nolan- The Curse of the Immigrant

Across the Great Divide (Ould Sagosha)

Martha Trachtenberg & Dede Wyland- Ticket Back

It’s About Time (Mom and Pop)

Crabtree & Mills- Across the Borderline

Flight of Fancy (Free and Easy Music)

Diana Jones- El Chaparral

Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Jackson Browne- The Dreamer

Downhill from Everywhere (Inside Recordings)

James Talley- Christmas on the Rio Grande

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Guy Clark- Immigrant Eyes

Old Friends (Sugar Hill)

Eric Andersen- Eyes of the Immigrants

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

C. Daniel Boling- All of Us are Immigrants

Love, Dan (Berkalin)

Carla Sciaky- For Nyla

Heart of the Swan (Propinquity)

Ben Caplan- Traveller’s Curse

Old Stock (Rhyme and Reason)

Ben Caplan- You’ve Arrived

Old Stock (Rhyme and Reason)

Next week: Songs from my Top 10 Folk-Rooted and Folk-Branched albums of 2024.

--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 – July 9, 2024: Remembering Kinky Friedman

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/595/65896.html

Theme: Remembering Kinky Friedman (1944-2024).

Richard Samet Friedman – or “Kinky” as he became known as a university student – was a noted singer, songwriter, novelist, essayist, occasional politician, animal rescue activist, and a larger-than-life character who died on June 27 at age 79.

Kinky Friedman at the Texas Book Fair in Austin (2013). Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Kinky Friedman- Me & My Guitar

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Willie Nelson- Ride ‘Em Jewboy

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Delbert McClinton- Autograph

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Lee Roy Parnell- Nashville Casualty & Life

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Somethin’s Wrong with the Beaver

Kinky Friedman (ABC)

Asleep at the Wheel- Before All Hell Breaks Loose

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Song About You

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Kinky Friedman- The Ballad of Charles Whitman

Sold American (Vanguard)

The Geezinslaws- Twirl

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Dwight Yoakam- Rapid City, South Dakota

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Guy Clark- Wild Man from Borneo

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Top Ten Commandments

Sold American (Vanguard)

Kinky Friedman- A Dog Named Freedom

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Marty Stuart- Lady Yesterday

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Chuck E. Weiss- Ol’ Ben Lucas

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Billy Swan- When the Lord Closes the Door (He Opens a Little Window)

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Jesus in Pajamas

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Kinky Friedman- Circus of Life

Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

Lyle Lovett- Sold American

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Tom Waits- Highway Café

Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Kinkajou)

Kinky Friedman- Resurrection

Resurrection (Echo Hill)

Kinky Friedman- Ride ‘Em Jewboy

Sold American (Vanguard)

Next week: A Salute to Nora Guthrie.

--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 9, 2024: Songs I’ve Heard Tom Rush Sing

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/595/64667.html

Theme: Songs I’ve Heard Tom Rush Sing.

Tom Rush – who is now 83 years old – has been performing and recording for more than 60 years. This show includes songs from Tom’s new album, “Gardens Old, Flowers New,” as well as other artists doing songs Tom has recorded over the years.

Tom Rush- Sailing

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed) 

Woody Guthrie- Do Re Mi

This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Ian Tyson- Windy Bill

Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Eric Von Schmidt- Joshua Gone Barbados

Baby, Let Me Lay It On You (Gazell)

Blind Willie McTell- Statesboro Blues

The Rough Guide to Blind Willie McTell (World Music Network)

Tom Rush- Gimme Some of It

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed) 

The Duhks- Mighty Storm

Fast Paced World (Sugar Hill)

Lauren Sheehan- I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

The Light Still Burns (Wilson River)

Emmylou Harris- No Regrets

Bluebird (Reprise)

Bruce Cockburn- One Day I Walk

Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Jesse Winchester- Biloxi 

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain) 

Tom Rush- The Harbor

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed) 

Joni Mitchell- Urge for Going

Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)

Murray McLauchlan- Old Man’s Song

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

Eddie Holstein- Jazzman

Eddie Holstein (Eddie Holstein)

David Wiffen- Driving Wheel

David Wiffen (Fantasy)

Tom Rush- It All Comes Down to Love

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed) 

3’s a Crowd- Gnostic Serenade

Christopher’s Movie Matinee (Dunhill)

Michael Smith- This Here Mandolin (Hobo’s Mandolin)

There (Flying Fish)

Bonnie Koloc- Colors of the Sun

Rediscovered (Mr. Biscuit)

Guy Clark- Desperados Waiting for a Train

Keepers: a live recording (Sugar Hill)

Tom Rush- Glory Road 

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed) 

Tom Rush- One More Time Around the Sun

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed) 

Next week: New York State of Mind.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 28, 2023: Stormy Weather

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/595/62871.html

Theme: Stormy Weather.

All of the songs on this show have something or other to do with stormy weather. Some of them are literally about storms and some use storms as metaphors.

Doc & Merle Watson- Stormy Weather

Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues (Rounder)

Stephen Mendel- Ready for the Storm

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Sylvia Tyson- Leaves in the Storm

At the End of the Day (Stony Plain)

Ian Tamblyn- Storm on the Mountain

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

The Wailin' Jennys- Storm Comin’

Bright Morning Stars (True North)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow

A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka- Holed Up in Mason City

Bright Side of Down (Red House)

Anna & Elizabeth- Don’t Want to Die in the Storm

Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)

Christine Lavin- Here Comes Hurricane Season

Happydance of the Xenophobe (Yellow Tail)

Don Armstrong- Raging Storm

Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)

Christine Albert- Under a Stormy Sky

TexaFrance-Encore! (MoonHouse)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Calm Before the Storm

Paradise Hotel (Red House)

Sean Gagnier- (Song of the) Wheelhouse Door

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Stan Rogers- White Squall

From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Guy Clark- Blowin’ Like a Bandit

Craftsman (Philo)

Michael Jerome Browne & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Louisiana 1927

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Bill Staines- Louisiana Storm

The Second Million Miles (Red House)

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)

Garnet Rogers- Hallelujah! The Great Storm is Over

Speaking Softly in the Dark (Snow Goose Songs)

Chris Rawlings- Lillooet

Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)

David Mallett- Snowbound

Open Doors & Windows (Flying Fish)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld- The Blizzard

Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)

Molly Mason, Mike Regenstreif & Jay Ungar (2005)

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- The Snowstorm

The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)

Next week: My top 10 folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of 2023.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 1, 2023: Art & Artists

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/595/61330.html

Theme: Art & Artists.

Bob Dylan- When I Paint My Masterpiece

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy)

Joni Mitchell- The Gallery

Clouds (Reprise)

Mike Regenstreif & Murray McLauchlan on Zoom (2021)

Murray McLauchlan- A Thomson Day (For Tom Thomson)

Hourglass (True North)

Ian Tamblyn- A.Y.

Walking in the Footsteps: Celebrating the Group of Seven (Art Gallery of Sudbury)

David Mallett- Phil Brown

Inches & Miles 1977-1980 (Flying Fish)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Hommage à Grungie

Tell My Sister – Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Nikki Parrott- Mona Lisa

Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Songbook (Venus)

Jay Linden- Salvador Dali

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Rain Perry- René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War

Internal Combustion (Precipitous)

John McCutcheon- Monet Refuses the Operation

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Michael Johnathon- The Painter

The Painter (PoetMan)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- My Daughter and Vincent Van Gogh

Points of View (Appleseed)

Priscilla Herdman- Vincent

Into the Stars (Stardreamer Music)

Gretchen Peters- Picasso and Me

Gretchen Peters (Valley Entertainment)

Guy Clark- Picasso’s Mandolin

Boats to Build (Asylum)

Jamie O'Reilly- Waving to Picasso

Swimming Deeper (Bird Avenue Publishing)

June Tabor- Paint Me, Redouté

Rosa Mudi (Green Linnet)

Judy Collins- Gauguin

Paradise (Wildflower)

Doug McArthur- The Painter’s Song

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Ian Tyson- The Gift

All the Good’Uns (Stony Plain)

R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders- Fine Artiste

R. Crumb’s Music Sampler (MQ Publications)

Next week: He was a Friend of Mine: Thinking of Dave Van Ronk.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 11, 2023: Old Friends

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/595/60053.html

Theme: Old Friends – all the songs relate, in one way or another – to friendship. The five songs on the show called “Old Friends” are all different songs.

Guy Clark- Old Friends

Old Friends (Sugar Hill)

Andy Cohen- Bob Dylan’s Dream

Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)

Tom Russell- These Friends of Mine

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

Nanci Griffith, Dave Van Ronk & Eric Taylor- He was a Friend of Mine

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

Sneezy Waters- Circle of Friends

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Tom Mitchell, Mike Regenstreif & Mary McCaslin (1999)

Mary McCaslin- Old Friends

Old Friends (Philo)

Ronney Abramson- Three O’Clock Ride

Three O’Clock Ride – single (Ronney Abramson)

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

Sparkle and Shine (Front Hall)

Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

Tom Mitchell- You Save Everything

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Huxtable, Christensen & Hood- Oldest of Friends

Wallflowers (Philo)

Frida’s Brow- Old Friends

Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

John McCutcheon- That’s All

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Bill Staines- Dear Friend

The Second Million Miles (Red House)

Mike Regenstreif, Bruce Murdoch & Sneezy Waters (2014)

Bruce Murdoch- Farewell My Friend

Singer-Songwriter Project (Elektra)

Tom Paxton- Comedians and Angels

Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)

Lucy Kaplansky- Old Friends

Everyday Street (Lucy Kaplansky)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Good Friends

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Durham County Poets- With a Little Help from My Friends

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Sweet Loving Friendship

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Pete Seeger with Arlo Guthrie & Shenendoah- Precious Friend You Will Be There

Precious Friend (Warner Bros.)

Gathering Time- Old Friends

Old Friends (Triple-G Records)

Next week: The Philosophy of Modern Song.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 16, 2021: The Guitar

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/595/54163.html

Theme: The Guitar

Guy Clark- The Guitar
Somedays the Song Writes You (Dualtone)

John Gorka- Nazarene Guitar
True in Time (Red House)
Mary Chapin Carpenter- Old D-35
One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)
Jamie Anderson- Linda’s Guitar
Songs from Home (Jamie Anderson)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Michael Smith- Gamble’s Guitar
Time (Flying Fish)
Fink, Marxer & Gleaves- Maybelle Played Guitar
Maybelle Played Guitar – single (Community Music)
Amos Garrett- Always Got Your Hands On That Guitar
Acoustic Album (Stony Plain)

Paul Mills- Doc’s Guitar
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Steve Gillette (1994)

Susie Burke & David Surette- I Turn to My Guitar
Waiting for the Sun (Madrina Music)
Kinky Friedman- Me & My Guitar
Circus of Life (Echo Hill)
Alex Cuba- En Mi Guitarra
Lo Unico Constante (Caracol)
Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen- La Guitarra
Live in Concert (Compass Rose)

Hans Theessink- Big Bill’s Guitar
Hard Road Blues (Minor Music)
Eric Bibb- Booker’s Guitar
Booker’s Guitar (Telarc)
Roy Book Binder- The Preacher Picked the Guitar
Singer-Songwriter Bluesman (PEGleg)

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

Magpie- This Guitar
Of Changes and Dreams (Long Tail)
Toasted Westerns- Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar
Out to Lunch!  (Moo Music)
Michael Jerome Browne- I’m a Guitar King
Sliding Delta (Borealis)
Kate Campbell- Yellow Guitar
Monuments (Large River Music)

Cheryl Wheeler- Mrs. Pinocci’s Guitar
Mrs. Pinocci’s Guitar (Philo)
Tish Hinojosa- Voice of the Big Guitar
Homeland (A&M)
Stephen Fearing- This Guitar
Yellow Jacket (True North)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins & Jona Fjeld with Chatham County Line- Bury Me with My Guitar On
Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)
Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Together (Rounder)

Jeff Healey- Guitar Duet Stomp
The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)

Next week: Songs and Conversation with Si Kahn

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--Mike Regenstreif