Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 19, 2025: The Original Sloth Band at 60

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/595/71585.html

Theme: The Original Sloth Band at 60.

The Original Sloth Band – teenaged brothers Chris Whiteley and Ken Whiteley and their friend Tom Evans – played their first gig in 1965. Their band name for that gig was Tubby Fats Original Allstar Downtown Syncopated Big Rock Jug Band but they soon evolved into the Original Sloth Band. Sadly, Tom Evans passed away from cancer in 2009, but, in June, Chris and Ken with some guest musicians played a concert at Hugh’s Room in Toronto to mark the milestone anniversary.

Original Sloth Band- The New Heartbreak Blues

Whoopee After Midnight (Sloth)

Samoa Wilson with The Jim Kweskin Band- (I Just Want to Be) Horizontal

I Just Want to Be Horizontal (Kingswood)

Tony Rice- Temperance Reel

Tony Rice (Rounder)

Jeff Healey- Sheik of Araby

The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)

Amos Milburn- Johnson Rag

Rockin’ and Drinkin’: Greatest Hits and More 1946-1959 (Jasmine)

Original Sloth Band- Heaven

Whoopee After Midnight (Sloth)

The Dumptrucks- Stealin’

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Original Sloth Band- I’m a Vulture (for Horticulture)

Whoopee After Midnight (Sloth)

Leon Redbone- Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone

Champagne Charlie (Warner Bros.)

Jenny Whiteley- Things are Coming My Way

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Jay McShann- Sunny Side of the Street

Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Mose Scarlett- How Long Blues

The Fundamental Things (Pyramid)

Original Sloth Band- Get a Job 

Whoopee After Midnight (Sloth)

Maria Muldaur- Organ Grinder Blues

One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (NOLA Blues)

Duke Ellington & Ivie Anderson- Get Yourself a New Broom (and Sweep the Blues Away)

Ellington in Order, Volume 5 (1932-33) (Legacy)

Duke Ellington & The Mills Brothers- Diga Diga Do

Ellington in Order, Volume 5 (1932-33) (Legacy)

Jimmy Bracken's Toe Ticklers- It’s Tight Like That

Jack Teagarden: The Definitive Collection (Master Tape)

Original Sloth Band- Shout Baby Shout

Hustlin’ & Bustlin’ (Woodshed)

The Boswell Sisters- Cheek to Cheek

Cheek to Cheek (Classic)

The Central Park Sheiks- Honeysuckle Rose

Honeysuckle Rose (Flying Fish)

Bessie Smith- Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)

Bessie Smith: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection (Big3)

Carolina Chocolate Drops- Memphis Shakedown

Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson (Music Makers Recordings)

Original Sloth Band- Hustlin’ and Bustlin’ for Baby

Hustlin’ & Bustlin’ (Woodshed)

Ken Whiteley- Fast Freight Train

Unseen Hands: 12 Songs 12 Strings (Ken Whiteley)

Chris Whiteley- I’ve Got to Split

It’s the Natural Thing to Do (Electro-Fi)

Next week: Songs for August and Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 22, 2025

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/128/69061.html

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Merry Mansion Quadrology: Merry Mansion; Magician; Front Door; Red White & Blue

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Boreal- Song for a Winter’s Night

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Just Let It Snow

Winter (Lynn Miles)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow

A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Snowing On Raton

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Long Lonely Winter

Stowaway (Castor Island Music)

Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser- Birches

The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Ice Fishing

North (Philo)

Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- Five Kinds of Snow

Promised Land (Fossil)

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- The Druggist

At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)

The Roches- My Winter Coat

Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Crys Matthews- In Her House

Reclamation (Crys Matthews)

Bradstreet & Keesee- The Land Beyond

Live in London (Street)

Kim Beggs- Miles & Miles Away

Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

Cindy Kallet- Ride in the Light

Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart- Send Love

Looking for the Thread (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

In memory of John Roberts (1944-2025)

John Roberts- Rambleaway

Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well… (Swallowtail)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- We Have Fed Our Sea

Naulakha Redux: Songs of Rudyard Kipling (Golden Hind Music)

John Roberts & Debra Cowan- Drive Dull Care Away

Ballads Long & Short: The Best of Every Sort (Golden Hind Music)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- Row On

Twiddlum Twaddlum (Golden Hind Music)

Rosanne Cash- My Old Man

Rhythm & Romance (Columbia)

Rhiannon Giddens- Up Above My Head

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Laura Cortese- Into the Dark

Into the Dark (Laura Cortese)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth 

Broken Truth – single (Vault) 

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Da Ishly Divky

Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Alice Howe & Freebo- A Case of You

Live (Know Howe Music)

Perla Batalla- A Thousand Kisses Deep

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Orit Shimoni- My Flying Shoes

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Lisa Gutkin- For All of You

From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)

The Twangtown Paramours- Old Friends

The Wind will Change Again (Inside Edge)

NEeMA with Emmylou Harris- For You

Painting My Wall Gold (Neemaste Productions)

John McCutcheon with Windborne- Blessing

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Jim Brewer- Corrina, Corrina

Take It Easy Greasy (Earwig/Riverlark Music)

Odetta- Rock Island Line

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

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Don’t Know Where I’m Bound

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Fabrizio Poggi with Shar White- I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

Healing Blues (Appaloosa)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears

Stardreamer (Alacazam)

Natalie Merchant with The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear

Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)

Dave Van Ronk- Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Songs for Ageing Children (Cadet)

Jenny Scheinman- Every Bear That Ever There Was

All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on March 22. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 25, 2023: Name That Tune

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/595/61281.html

Theme: Name That Tune – every song includes a proper name in its title.

Bonnie Dobson- Peter Amberley

Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)

David Massengill- My Name Joe

Coming Up for Air (Flying Fish)

Christine Lavin- My Sister Mary & My Mother

On My Way to Hooterville (Christine Lavin)

Rod MacDonald- Come Out, Annie

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Linda Ronstadt- Gentle Annie

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Tom Mitchell- Old Dan

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Dave Clarke- Lucinda

The Healing Garden (Crossties)

The Dumptrucks- Jean Harlow

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

The Wailin' Jennys- Bring Me Little Water Sylvie

Live at The Mauch Chunk Opera House (Outside Music)

Ken Whiteley- Michael Row

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Tom Russell- Annette

Box of Visions (Stony Plain)

Nanci Griffith- Julie Anne

Poet In My Window (Philo)

Paul Siebel- Louise

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Katy Moffatt- Sister Angelina

Chrysalis (Sunset Blvd. Records)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Merle

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Lynn Miles- Johnny Without June

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Ian Hanchet- To Ramona

Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)

Bob Dylan- Visions of Johanna

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! (Columbia/Legacy)

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude

Just Causes (Neworld)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Michael Smith- The Ballad of Elizabeth Dark

Such Things are Finely Done (Tales from the Tavern)

Jesse Winchester- Eulalie

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

Next week: Art & Artists.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday January 28, 2023

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 and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/59164.html

Three songs in memory of David Crosby (1941-2023).

The Byrds- Mr. Tambourine Man

Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia)

Crosby, Stills & Nash- Long Time Gone

Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic)

David Crosby- Traction in the Rain

If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)

Ben Bedford- Leaping

Valley of Stars (Hopeful Sky)

Geoff Bartley- Talkin’ Jumping Frog Blues

The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)

Bob Jensen- Sit Down Young Stranger

For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

J.P. Cormier- Approaching Lavender

The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Flash Publishing)

Nicki Parrott- If You Could Read My Mind

If You Could Read My Mind (Arbors)

Gordon Lightfoot- Saturday Clothes

If You Could Read My Mind (Reprise)

The Vanier Playboys- Born in the Country

Deux (The Vanier Playboys)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Come on Up to the House

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

VickiKristinaBarcelona- Gun Street Girl

Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004) photo: Ron Petronko

David Amram- Waltz from After the Fall

No More Walls (Flying Fish)

Three songs in memory of Steve James (1950-2023).

Steve James- Stack Lee’s Blues

Boom Chang (Burnside)

Steve James- Buddy Bolden’s Blues

Art & Grit (Discovery)

Steve James & Del Rey- Tappin’ That Thing

Tonight (Hobemian)

Three songs in memory of Thad Beckman (1952-2023).

Thad Beckman- Lay My Burden Down

Blues Gone By (Thadzooks)

Thad Beckman- Street of Disaster

Streets of Disaster (Thadzooks)

Thad Beckman, Mike Regenstreif & Tom Russell (2012)

Thad Beckman & Tom Russell- Blue Wing

Streets of Disaster (Thadzooks)

Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- St. Olav’s Gate

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Danny Britt- Bar Stool

All Over the Map (Red Dawg Music)

Creedence Clearwater Revival- Bad Moon Rising

Green River (Fantasy)

The Dumptrucks- Closing Time

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Alex Cuba- Quiero Quedarme

Quiero Quedarme – single (Caracol)

Le Vent du Nord- L’auberge

20 Printemps (La Compagnie du Nord)

Christopher Mark Jones / Bernard Pozier- Rendez-vous sous la pluie

Montréal Encore (Small Batch Music)

Pat Guadango & Mary McCrink- Boots of Spanish Leather

1964 (Campbell Music)

Annie Capps- Learning

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Tim Ball- Sugar in the Gourd

Upstate Crossroads (Irelandville)

The next two songs punctuated my conversation with Christine Graves, recorded on January 17 via Zoom.

Christine Graves- Despite the News

Everyday Life (Christine Graves)

Christine Graves- Here’s My Song

Everyday Life (Christine Graves)

Four songs to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27).

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk- Sabina’s Letter: Some of Us Must Survive

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Brendan Nolan- Parallel Limbs

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

Lenka Lichtenberg- Our feet are marching, two and two

Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Shelley Posen- Packed

Mazel (Well Done Music)

The Squirrel Hillbillies- Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long

Rhizomes (The Squirrel Hillbillies)

Bruce Cockburn- Whole Night Sky

Rarities (True North)

Lucie Blue Tremblay- The Paradise Club

So Many Wows (Maggie & Shanti Musique)

The Heart Collectors- Pieces II

Timeless Space (Spins the Gold)

Sue Horowitz- January

Strings, Wings and Curious Things (Sue Horowitz)

Bill Staines- January Snow

The First Million Miles, Volume II (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978) photo: Ron Petronko

Priscilla Herdman- January Thaw

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Michael Kaeshammer- Bourbon Street Parade

The Warehouse Sessions (Linus)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 25. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – November 19, 2022

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). 

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. 

This week’s show was hosted by Mike Regenstreif.

CKCU can be heard at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This particular show was recorded and is already available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/58358.html

Chris Coole- Upon the Mystery

The Old Man and the C Chord (Chris Coole)

The Dumptrucks- Stealin’

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Bruce Cockburn- Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down

Rarities (True North)

Zachary Lucky- I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground

Songs for Hard Times (Zachary Lucky)

Ken Whiteley- Michael Row

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Kaia Kater- White (Long Time Traveling)

Nine Pin (Kaia Kater)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mike Regenstreif, Chaim Tannenbaum (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Chaim Tannenbaum- Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Mountain City Four- Motherless Children

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- No Biscuit Blues

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Norah Jones with Lily Lanken- Over the Hill

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Braden Gates- Norah Jones at Closing Time

Kitchen Days (Borealis)

Chris Coole & John Showman- Back in the Goodle Days

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

The Slowinks- The Problem

Stay With Me Awhile (weewerk)

Jane Hawley- Take These Chains from My Heart

Sorrow Bound: Hank Williams Re-examined (Ruby Moon)

The Mahones- Watch Me Fall

Jameson Street (True North)

Al Grierson- Barney Rubble Meets Mack the Knife

The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)

Ofra Harnoy- Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s

On the Rock (Analekta)

Stan Rogers- Three Fishers

For the Family (Folk Tradition)

Tony Turner- Indelible Blue

Love & Other Attractions (Tony Turner)

Orit Shimoni- Sing Back to Me

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Garnet Rogers- Shadows on the Water

Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)

Eric Andersen- More Often Than Not

Blue River (Columbia/Legacy)

Jason Lang- Happiness Is

Handled with Care: Hommage à Penny Lang (Jason Lang)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Geremia

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

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

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

Po’ Girl- Ain’t Life Sweet

Home to You (Nettwerk)

Penny Lang- If I Could Be the Rain

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Moore & McGregor- Don’t Let Us Get Sick

Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Dennis O’Toole- To Grow Old Together

Dennis O’Toole (Dennis O’Toole)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Maybe

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Holly Cole- Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues

Night (Rumpus Room)

Ian Tamblyn- Whip Poor Will

Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

I also host Stranger Songs every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm; and the Saturday Morning show from 7 to 10 am, once every 4 weeks with my next slot on November 5.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 5, 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/128/58218.html

This show airs during CKCU’s Annual Funding Drive for 2022. Please visit https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/76213 to make your charitable donation to help us continue bringing you creative, volunteer-programmed, listener-supported community radio for another year.

Stillhouse Junkies- El Camino

Small Towns (Dark Shadow Recording)

Sneezy Waters & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Sneezy Waters- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Hannah Shira Naiman- The Grouse

The Wheels Won’t Go (Hannah Shira Naiman)

Ofra Harnoy- Lonely Waterloo

On the Rock (Analekta)

Jamie Anderson- Public Radio

Better Than Chocolate (Tsunami)

Darryl Purpose- A Place Where Everyone Sings

Two Good Hands EP (Darryl Purpose)

The Dumptrucks- Clyde Beattie

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)

Zachary Lucky- Rex’s Blues

Songs for Hard Times (Zachary Lucky)

The Claytones- If I Needed You

Reserva (Rip Roar Music)

Townes Van Zandt- Highway Kind

Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos (Omnivore)

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

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

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Steve Lundquist with Mike Fjerstad- I Wave Bye-Bye

Acting a Fool (Steve Lundquist)

Suzie Vinnick- Raino

Fall Back Home (Suzie Vinnick)

Walter Hyatt- In November

King Tears (MCA)

Tom Mitchell- When Nobody’s Lookin’

Old Cloth (Yabut Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Heart of Your Man

A Matter of Time (Tony Turner)

Doug McArthur- 1911

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Ian Tamblyn- Voice in the Wilderness

Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

Garnet Rogers- Sweet Spot

Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)

Amy Speace- My Father’s House

Tuscon (Windbone)

John Fusco- Coyote Man

Borderlands (Rocket 88)

Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris- Across the Border

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

Tom Russell- Down the Rio Grande

Borderland (HighTone)

Mountain City Four- All the Good Times

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Rory Block- Freight Train

Ain’t Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song (Stony Plain)

Fink, Marxer, Gleaves- Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie

Shout and Shine (Community Music)

Deborah Robins- Shake Sugaree

Home Fires (Zippety Whippet Music)

Elizabeth Cotten- Fare You Well, My Darling

Shake Sugaree (Smithsonian Folkways)

James Keelaghan- Walk On

Second-Hand (Borealis)

Tom Chapin featuring The Chapin Sisters- Hold Our Ground Forever

Hold Our Ground (Sundance Music)

Penny Lang & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Penny Lang- Never Turning Back

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

Reggie Harris- Sing Out/March On/Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Sean Gagnier- South Coast

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

The Dumptrucks- Dobro Song

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Abbie Gardner- Down the Mountain

DobroSinger (Abbie Gardner)

Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken, Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Dig My Grave

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Loudon Wainwright III- Town & Country

Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Mr. M

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Traveler’s Prayer

One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)

Philip Dyson- Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works (Decca)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on December 3. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday November 19 from 10 am-noon.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday October 22, 2022

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). 

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. 

This week’s show was hosted by Mike Regenstreif.

CKCU can be heard at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web. 

This particular show was recorded and is already available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/58008.html

Hour 1

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Merry Mansion Quadrology: Merry Mansion; Magician; Front Door; Red White & Blue

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Going Down the Road

Rarities (True North)

Russ Kelley- Somewhere Later Down the Road

Crazy Shades of Blue (Ark Road Music Productions)

Hannah Shira Naiman- Caroline Collins

The Wheels Won’t Go (Hannah Shira Naiman)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- The King of Rome

Small Victories (Snow Goose Songs)

Onna Lou- Saber

Diamante (Onna Lou)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Maybe

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Main St.

We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

Missy Burgess- Picture in a Frame

Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

Old Man Luedecke- I Skipped a Stone

Easy Money (True North)

The Once- Anthem

The Once (Borealis)

Ball and Chain & The Wreckers- Daydreamin’

Surrender (Ball and Chain)

Hour 2 – The Great Canadian Tour

Ian Tyson- Great Canadian Tour

Ol’ Eon (Stony Plain)

Deborah Holland- Vancouver

Vancouver (RageOn)

Chris Rawlings- Lillooet

Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)

Hank Snow- The Spell of the Yukon

Tales of the Yukon (RCA)

James Keelaghan- Alberta

Second-Hand (Borealis)

Michael Earnie Taylor Orchestra- Calgary Song

$3 Pants (Laughing Cactus Music)

Johnny Cash- Girl in Saskatoon

Change of Address: The Singles As and Bs, 1958-1962 (Jasmine)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Winnipeg

Hurricane Season (Stony Plain)

Shelley Posen- Ontario Moon

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Oscar Peterson- Hogtown Blues

Canadiana Suite (Limelight)

Paul Weber- Ottawa Lament

Ode to Gerry Barber (Paul Weber)

Allison Russell- Montreal

Outside Child (Fantasy)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- The Streets of Old Quebec

Tracks and Trails (Philo)

Steel Rail- Argyle Street

Coming Home (Crossties)

Kevin Head- Digby Lament

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- St. John’s Waltz

Red Shoes (Borealis)

I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces next on November 19. I also host Stranger Songs every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm; and the Saturday Morning show from 7 to 10 am, once every 4 weeks with my next slot on November 5.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 18, 2020

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 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/128/48384.html

Eric Andersen- Violets of Dawn

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Paul Mills- 45 Weeks from Now

Unreleased parody of Stan Rogers’ “45 Years” with new words by Shelley Posen – used with permission

John McCutcheon- When All of This is Over

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Skinner & T'witch- Working from Home

Working from Home – single (Skinner & T’witch)

Lynn Miles- In the Wilderness

We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

Ken Tizzard & Music for Goats- King of Broken Hearts

Living the Dream: Live at the Little Pub (Ken Tizzard)

Orit Shimoni- George Street

Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Steel Rail- (Just) Waiting for a Train

Coming Home (Crossties)

Sharon Goldman- Woody and Marjorie

Woody and Marjorie – single (Sharon Goldman)

The Klezmatics- Mermaid’s Avenue

Wonder Wheel (Jewish Music Group)

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven

2020 (Red House)

Folk Uke- Small One

Small One – single (Folk Uke)

Judy Mayhan- Morning and an Oldsmobile

Judy Mayhan (Decca)

Lynn Miles- Old Soul

We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

VickiKristinaBarcelona- Jersey Girl

Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Extended feature: Remembering Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002). Some of the next 14 songs were written by Dave Van Ronk. Others are from his repertoire, or written in tribute to him.

Peter, Paul & Mary- Bamboo

Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)

Tex König- Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Dave Van Ronk- Gaslight Rag

Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy)

Tom Paxton- The Mayor of MacDougal Street

Redemption Road (Pax)

Photo: Jack Mancini

The Village Dudes- Another Time and Place

Another Time and Place (Blue Flute Music)

Andy Antipin- Sunday Street

I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table (Andy Atipin)

Dave Van Ronk- St. James Infirmary

Live in Monterey (Omnivore)

Dakota Dave Hull- Sheridan Square Rag

Under the North Star (Arabica)

Dave Van Ronk- To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)

David Massengill- Dave Van Ronk’s Last Cigar

Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk (Gadfly)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III- Green Green Rocky Road

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Hans Theessink- He was a Friend of Mine

Songs from the Southland (Blue Groove)

Dave Van Ronk- Urge for Going

…and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tom Russell- Van Ronk

Hotwalker (HighTone)

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Merry Mansion Quadrology: Merry Mansion; Magician; Front Door; Red White & Blue

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Ronny Cox- Quintanaroo

Live at the Kitchen Sink (Ronny Cox)

Don Armstrong- Stay in the Game

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

David Bromberg Band- Lovin’ of the Game

Big Road (Red House)

Stephen Mendell- Old Ties and Companions

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Julie & John Pennell- Keep On Walkin’

Keep On Walkin’ (JPE Records)

Nina Ricci- Oh, What a Beautiful City (Twelve Gates to the City)

Oh, What a Beautiful City – single (Nina Ricci)

Corin Raymond- Rec Room

Dirty Mansions (Local Rascal Records)

The Kingston Trio- Tom Dooley

The Kingston Trio (Capitol)

Mandy Marylane- Romance Anónimo-The Dance

Mandy Marylane (Y&T Music)

Jenny Reynolds- Dance for Me

Any Kind of Angel (Jenny Reynolds)

Jackie Washington- I’m Happy Darling Dancing with You

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Vi Wickam & Paul Anastasio featuring Albanie Falletta- Birthday Dance

Swingin’ at the Savoy (Vi Wickam & Paul Anastasio)

Dick Weissman- Banjo in the Mist

No Ceiling (Dick Weissman)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 15.

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--Mike Regenstreif