Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 30, 2019

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 … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/42229.html

Fraser & Girard- My Name is Carol

Fraser & Girard (Fraser & Girard)

Ken Tizzard- House

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Ken Tizzard)

Jessica Pearson & The East Wind- Heave Away

Grave and Garden Songs (Jessica Pearson & The East Wind)

Alana & Leigh Cline- Slip Jigs: Whinny Hills of Leitrim/Ryan’s/Humours of Whiskey

Alana & Leigh Cline (Scimitar)

The Village Dudes- Another Time and Place

Another Time and Place (Blue Flute Music)

Dave Van Ronk- Gaslight Rag

Going Back to Brooklyn (HighTone)

Tom Russell- T-Bone Steak and Spanish Wine

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Ian Hanchet- I’ll Fly Away

New Life (Ian Hanchet)

Our Native Daughters (Allison Russell w/Rhiannon Giddens & Leyla McCalla)- Quasheba, Quasheba

Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)

Kaia Kater- Heavenly Track

Grenades (Smithsonian Folkways)

Mother Banjo- Trust Your Boots

Eyes on the Sky (So Low Recordings)

Danny Schmidt- Last Man Standing

Standard Deviation (Live Once)

Kate Weekes- Poet Friend

Taken By Surprise (Artiste Extrordinaire Originals)

The Confabulation- Precious Little Solves the Riddle

Tunnels and Visions (Woodhead Music)

Ben Caplan- Birds with Broken Wings

Birds with Broken Wings (Coalition)

SONiA dissapear fear- Eleh Chamda Libi

By My Silence (Disappear Records)

Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva & Company- Suitcase Song: Ich hab’ noch einen koffer in Berlin

Indecent: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Yellow Sound Label)

Extended Feature: Songs of Guy Clark – The next 16 songs were written or co-written by Guy Clark.

Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie- Old Friends

Old Friends (Black Hen)

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- Homegrown Tomatoes

Relax Your Mind (Angel)

Johnny Cash- Let Him Roll

Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)

Guy Clark- That Old Time Feeling

Keepers: A Live Recording (Sugar Hill)

Steve Earle & The Dukes- Sis Draper

Guy (New West)

Asleep at the Wheel- Blowin’ Like a Bandit

10 (Epic)

Emmylou Harris- New Cut Road

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

Guy Clark- The Guitar

The Best of the Dualtone Years (Dualtone)

Eric Bibb w/Martin Simpson- The Cape

Friends (Telarc)

Gove Scrivenor- Boats to Build

Shine On (Compass)

Bill & Bonnie Hearne- L.A. Freeway

Watching Life Through a Windshield (Back Porch)

Guy Clark- The Randall Knife

The Best of the Dualtone Years (Dualtone)

Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle & Eric Taylor- Desperadoes Waiting for a Train

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

Bill Staines- Lone Star Hotel Café

Old Dogs (Red House) 
Bettysoo & Doug Cox- Dublin Blues

Across the Borderline: Lie to Me (Borderline Talent)

Guy Clark- My Favorite Picture of You

The Best of the Dualtone Years (Dualtone)

Suzie Vinnick- Find Some Freedom

Shake the Love Around (Suzie Vinnick)

Harrison Kennedy- Who U Tellin’?

Who U Tellin’? (Electro-Fi)

Michael Jerome Browne- Somebody Have Mercy

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Tim O’Brien Band- Diggin’ My Potatoes

Tim O’Brien Band (Howdy Skies)

Andy Statman- Statman Romp

Monroe Bus (Shefa)

Maria Dunn- Whiskey Evening

For a Song (Distant Whisper Music)

Ian & Sylvia- Nancy Whiskey

Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)

Vivian Nesbitt & John Dillon- The Whiskey Ring and the Railroad Trust

The Songs of Mother Jones: A Musical by Si Kahn (MotherJonesInHeaven.com)

Doug McArthur- Whiskey in the Jar

The Horses of the Sea: A Personal Exploration of Ireland (dougimac.com)

Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves- Farewell Whiskey

Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 27.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Eric Bibb – Blues People

ERIC BIBB
Blues People
Stony Plain 
ericbibb.com

As I’ve said before, Eric Bibb is one of the most inspired and inspiring of contemporary blues (and folk) artists. Blues People is yet another offering from the prolific singer, guitarist and songwriter that reinforces that opinion.

Some of my favorites of Eric’s albums are relatively simple productions that feature just him and perhaps another musician or two. Others, like Blues People, are much more elaborate productions with extensive back-up and many special guests turning up on specific tracks.

There is a concept to Blues People as its songs – 11 of which were written or co-written by Eric while four were drawn from other sources – capture snippets of the lives of musicians who have played blues over the past century or so and place them in the context of the times and changing times in which they’ve lived.

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

Among the album’s highlights is “Driftin’ Door to Door,” co-written by Eric and Montreal’s own Michael Jerome Browne, and sung from the perspective of an itinerant musician – perhaps someone like Booker (Bukka) White. Eric notes that Michael’s outstanding slide work on this track was played on White’s own National guitar.

Other highlights from among the original songs are the very moving “Rosewood,” sung from the perspective of a man who survived the hate-motivated 1923 arson attacks and murders in which all of the African American homes in Rosewood, Florida were burned down; “Remember the Ones,” an R&B duet with Linda Tillery that pays tribute to the many heroes of the Civil Rights Movement; and “Dream Catchers,” also sung in an R&B mode by Eric and co-writers Ruthie Foster and Harrison Kennedy, in which they emphatically place themselves among contemporary people continuing the work and legacies of those civil rights heroes.

Among my favorites are several songs not written or co-written by Eric. These include a down home duet with Guy Davis on Guy’s “Chocolate Man,” almost certainly inspired by Mississippi John Hurt’s “Candy Man”; an uplifting rendition of Reverend Gary Davis’ “I Heard the Angels Singin’” on which Eric’s vocals and guitar are joined by Michael Jerome Browne on 12-string, JJ Milteau on harmonica and the Blind Boys of Alabama with their inspiring singing; and “Needed Time,” a traditional gospel song that Eric has previously recorded in several different arrangements. This one starts with Taj Mahal, alone on vocal and banjo, in what sounds like an old field recording before shifting into a multi-layered arrangement with Eric singing lead and glorious harmonies from the Blind Boys of Alabama and Ruthie Foster.

Blues People is certainly among the best folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of the year.

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